super sensitive glans after adult circumcision

Phimosis is not a disease and does not require treatment.

Non-surgical foreskin restoration does not involve doctors and is not expensive.


Adult circumcision is an extremely destructive ladical operation that severs blood vessels, nerves, and other tissue. The permanent and irreversible amputation excises the most sexually sensitive part of the penis. Sensation is permanently reduced.

Most conditions for which circumcision has been historically performed may now be conservatively treated without surgery.

Complications include hemorrhage, infection, and surgical accident.
There are many possible adverse outcomes, including total loss of the penis and even death.

The operation severs nerves and blood vessels, so sensation and blood circulation are permanently impaired.

The recovery period is usually painful and takes about six weeks.

The cost is about US$2,500 to US$3,000. Your insurance may or may not pay for it, because it is non-therapeutic. They may consider it to be cosmetic surgery.

The sensitive head of your penis will be permanently exposed to friction on clothing and there will be nothing to cover and protect it.

You will have to alter your method of masturbation.

Adult circumcision is outmoded as a treatment for phimosis.

Many men later regret their decision to be circumcised because of the loss of so much sexual sensation.


One should also note that male circumcisions causes many emotional issues that alter human behavior.

Your penis is no more sensitive than it was before the surgery. Before the surgery, the glans penis was protected and now it is not protected.

I had a circumcision 1 week ago. I lived with phimosis for 32 years. Creams did not work. It was not an immediate decision to see a specialist, or even to give the green light immediately after meeting him. Part of me just didn't want to deal with the consequences. In fact I waited almost 2 years after meeting. I would have preferred to have had a fully functional foreskin, but it just wasnt an option. On 2 occasions, after sex, the foreskin was retracted over the glans, but would not roll over again afterward. I had the elephant-like trunk skin. both of these times I had to get an emergency doctor to forcibly return the skin to its natural position. Of course, this caused me both physical and psych trauma: I was often at a point where I could not keep an erection before penetrating out of fear that I would need a doctor. There had been a few  times when I penetrated a guy (I'm gay) and the foreskin remained in place, but the risk of it not doing so just f****d with my brain. As a consequence, I've only "topped" guys 12 times, and has made me more of the receiver than I'd have preferred. Also, being unable to retract easily, I couldn't clean well - and this lead to regular build up of smegma that would cause inflammation. So it was embarrassingly smelly and I had a foreskin that caused me anxiety and pain. The circumcision removed all of this in 1 move. I am not 100% comfortable with how it looks right now. It's swollen in parts, and I'm just not used to seeing the glands, bruised at the top. The surgeon left some skin but I haven't dared to try and play with it. He left my frenulum. I am taking several painkillers. On the third day I woke up with a suture-breaking erection, and I went to emergency to check that'd be okay. Thankfully I lost only 3 or 4 stitches. The urologist suggested that I take cold+flu tablets that have pseudoephedrine in them! Apparently they reduce the risk of erections, although I still get them while asleep, but I use ice packs as soon as they happen - be prepared to wake up quickly and run to the freezer. The over sensitivity of the glands prevents me from walking up straight (no pun) and makes sitting difficult. I have padding between the head and my tight-fitting underwear. I find that boxers only makes me hang and that's caused me some weird pain. I also get throbbing pain in my balls like I'm being punched, and there's stinging and itching (which is likely the healing.) My point is that I'm in pain, and I'm not yet happy, and there's been some level of resentment that I've had to do this, but it's my reality. There was no viable solution other than electing to have my foreskin removed. I know that it'll come to terms with it eventually. 

I can identify as well with your story. Very moving.

Lee:

You say you had phimosis, but your foreskin retracted, so you did NOT have phimosis. You simply had a tight foreskin. Tight foreskin are amenable to foreskin stretching to widen the tight part. That is what most guys are doing today.

Search the Internet for:

“How to Fix Phimosis and Tight Foreskins, Solutions That Work”

You say the surgeon left some skin, but he not leave enough to avoid popping your stitches.

Obviously, getting circumcised did not produce happiness.

If you still had your foreskin, you could clean it out with an ear syringe.

The inflammation is completely normal and for me it was completely gone after about 11 days after the surgery. I can feel sympathy with your story and can only hope you get better. My recovery was surprisingly fast and I was only taking pain killers for the first seven days. It's taken me a while to get used to the new image of my penis but I'm content that I'm finally healed from this awful disease (phimosis).

Roland, I tried stretching as well. I had the phimotic ring that prevented retraction, but when it did, on those 2 occasions, painfully, it became "paraphimosis" - neither were enjoyable.

Perez, thanks!  I look forward to having no pain. Unfortunately I didnt sleep at all last night, and then at 5am I had urethritis start up - felt like pee was tinkling away inside m urethra but nothing poured out. It went on for 4 hours like that until I went to a doc and had it checked. Antibiotics will soon clear it up. Surgical complications just suck!

Hi Lee:

You did not finish stretching. If you had persevered, you would have had a foreskin that glides smoothly back and forth.

Well done. You must've been right next to me over many months while I stretched in failure. 

Hello all,

I had circumcision 4 days ago. I came on here because I have the same ultra sensitive glans and need to return to work in 7 days. At the moment I have it wrapped in a bandage and it's fine but I need a solution. Going to try the hot water in shower tonight and hope that it improves because at the moment when I don't have it wrapped it's unbearable, I can't even move ithout pain.  Other than that I'm happy with the op and the rest of the penis and looking forward to fully healing. Night erections last night weren't as painful as first two so progress there

Its reassuring to to hear everyone's stories who go through the same thing. Really hope I'll be ok. Thanks for all the comment On this thread, really helpful. 

I'm sure you will survive but it can be uncomfortable. As you may have read many of us have desensitized our glans even though we still have our foreskins. I found mine was much less sensitive when it was dry. I discovered that due to it getting stuck behind my glans after masturbation. I would leave it there and go to sleep rather than endure the pain of pulling it back up over. I found it was tolerable to touch it in the morning after being peeled all night. Actually it was fun to play with it when it was like that and that's why I decided to desensitize it so I could enjoy playing with the bare head.

I would like to suggest trying to go to sleep with your head bared and see how it is in the morning. I think keeping it dry is the way to go not wetting it. My experience was that as soon as mine became damp it was super sensitive all over again even after being able to caress it when it was dry.

Did you have it done for a medical reason, because you wanted it, or because your lover wanted it? Did you have it done in any special way or just the generic trim? Don't let anyone discourage you for doing it. It's your penis and you have the right to do that if you wish. I'm sure you will be happy with it after the discomfort subsides.

I ended up having it done as I was constantly tearing it during intercourse over the last year, every time I left it a few months it would heal but there would be a weak point and it would tear again, each time growing back tighter. In the end I was left with no choice as it got to the point where it was too tight to retract without tearing.

I went for the more expensive skin glue over stitches as the recovery seems to be easier, nothing to snag or worry about not dissolving and also no tunnel holes to worry about. Really happy with it I must admit. Even though it's only day 4 seems to be healing really quickly. Just the exposed glans is unbearable. I have been sleeping with it bare to promote the healing but during the day I've had to cover it or I can't function. But obviously I can't do it forever, hopefully it will lose some sensitivity when the rest of the swelling goes down and then I can take it from there.

When I was desensitizing mine I cleaned it well and dried it first. Of course drying it with a towel was out of the question so I used a cotton ball soaked in rubbing alcohol to clean it and the alcohol evaporates by itself. The alcohol eliminates any stickiness. You may not be able to use that because of the cut though. Then I took some really soft fuzzy flannel to rub it with. That was easy on it and helped get it used to being rubbed. Then I moved to some flannel that wasn't quite as soft and eventually just my bare fingers which felt so good I found myself masturbating bare and dry all the time after that. So you have something to look forward to as the sensitivity improves, the bare glans produces some really nice feelings. I liked the feel of it sliding into my wife bare, lubricated of course, but she didn't like it so I didn't get to do that very often.

Maybe you could make a sort of pouch or a wrap out of soft flannel for when you have to go back to work.

I forgot to ask you what was tearing? Was it the frenulum or the foreskin itself? When I was first married my frenulum used to tear during sex. It wasn't very painful but the first time it happened it was rather distressing and when it healed it was shorter than before. When it tore after that I wrapped it with TP to keep the ends from healing back together so it was longer than before. Eventually it was as if the frenulum wasn't even there. I have nothing I can see that looks like a frenulum now and my foreskin slides all the way back.

I started off by tearing the frenulum which was the most painful, then after I let it heal and tried again I tore the frenulum and the foreskin in several places, not sure if that was because the frenulum had grown back tighter to cause this. Anyway my doctor said it was a viscious circle and it was beyond repair now due to all the tears, so the only option was a circumcision. I had the frenulum removed so I'm looking forward to intercourse again where I don't have to worry about it snapping as I could never quite relax before.