super sensitive glans after adult circumcision

You might roll a condom onto your penis to cover and protect the head and fulfill some of the functions formerly performed by your now amputated foreskin. You may cut the tip off so you you pee and you may put some adhesive tape on to keep it from falling off.

hey buddy...hope u have recovered from ur post operative trauma....today its my 5th day...and the sensitivity is killing me..

Nature puts the foreskin there for many reasons. One reason is to protect the head. Now that you don't have a foreskin, the head of the penis is permanently exposed, so it is painful. Did your doctor tell you this?

How did you cope...I had phimosis and to the point where the foreskin turned white....it had vitaligo but I had the surgery and now the head is so sensitive...I cant take it! What did you do? Was the head all white like a layer of skin?

How are you doing...I had the surgery a week ago! The head so sensitive! The stitches are dissolving now.....but the head is sore red and white on parts of it! I cant take it anymore!

It takes about six weeks to recover from an adult circumcision. One should avoid getting erections masturbation and sexual activity during recovery. Oral ketoconazole may help to prevent postoperative erections. You will need lubrication to help you masturbate.

It is normal for the head of the penis to hurt after a circumcision because the protection provided by the foreskin is gone forever.

If excessive tissue is removed, the result will be painful, shorter erections.

One will never fully regain the lost protection, sexual function, sensation, and sexual pleasure, even if one restores the foreskin.

If you should become interested in restoring your foreskin, a search on the Internet for “foreskin restoration” will produce lots of information.

You should have thought about that before you consented to having a circumcision.

It takes about six weeks to recover from an adult circumcision. One should avoid getting erections masturbation and sexual activity during recovery. Oral ketoconazole may help to prevent postoperative erections. You will need lubrication to help you masturbate.

It is normal for the head of the penis to hurt after a circumcision because the protection provided by the foreskin is gone forever.

If excessive tissue is removed, the result will be painful, shorter erections.

One will never fully regain the lost protection, sexual function, sensation, and sexual pleasure, even if one restores the foreskin.

If you should become interested in restoring your foreskin, a search on the Internet for “foreskin restoration” will produce lots of information.

I had phimosis.I get cut yesterday. Before the circumcision I read that the pain and the sensitivity lasted 1 month.. then today I started reading experiences like in this forum and I got depressed.. even the doctor joked about it like it was something not important and not so painful..In 3 months I will move abroad in a student dorm for just a semester.. I was hoping to have a functional penis.. how lond do the sensitivity last? (I mean to have a good sex and not painful)

I think that is an individual thing. Everyone experiences a different time for how long it lasts. I think you have a good chance of being quite comfortable in three months. Remember that you are probably hearing from people who have had an unusual experience, that's why they are mentioning it. Unhappy people like to complain while happy people don't usually have much to say.

Three months from now you will probably have a problem keeping the erections down due to your newly exposed glans getting rubbed constantly. You will be looking for a girl to rub it for you because it feels so good.

You were blessed with a highly innervated, highly erogenous foreskin. Many circumcised guys would envy your foreskin.

You are very fortunate to have had parents that did not circumcise you. You had a whole, complete penis so you have sex the way nature intended it. Now that is gone.


There are four very rare, compelling medical reasons for circumcision.

1. A malignant tumor on the foreskin.
2. Irreparable physical trauma.
3. Frostbite.
4. Gangrene of the foreskin.

All other reasons are elective. If you did not have one of those conditions, then you elected to be circumcised. Most medical conditions that involve the foreskin may be treated conservatively.

Adult circumcision is an irreversible, elective surgical operation to injure the penis and reduce its size and sensation by cutting off the nerve-laden sexually sensitive, erogenous foreskin. Once it is removed you cannot get it back. There is no turning back.

Adult circumcision is usually performed with a general anesthetic however local anesthetic may be used. Like all surgical operations, it has risks of hemorrhage, infection, and surgical mishap. Loss of the penis has been known to occur. Death has been known to occur.

The appearance of the penis is changed. A scar is a permanent effect of circumcision.


The cost is about $2,500-$3,000 in the United States. Circumcision may be carried out under local or general anaesthesia. It is common to use dissolving sutures for the circumcision wound.

Male circumcision is a very destructive, injurious, and harmful amputation of valuable penile tissue. Masturbation will be much more difficult and less pleasurable. Circumcision should be avoided whenever possible.

The foreskin is a complex double-layered structure composed of smooth muscle fiber, skin, mucosa, nerves, arteries, and veins. It is natural, normal, healthy, and its possession contributes to a sense of well-being. The foreskin has protective, sensory, sexual, and immunological functions. It is loaded with nerves and is the site of most of the penile sensation. The foreskin is a “specific erogenous zone.” The foreskin is essential for normal intercourse. Foreskin provides the additional skin needed to allow for penile expansion during erection. Amputation of the foreskin, which is an integral and important part of the penis has very significant adverse sexual and emotional effects.
Nature put the foreskin there to provide at least fourteen functions:

1. to cover and bond with the synechia so as to permit the development of the mucosal surface of the glans and inner foreskin.
2. to protect the infant's glans from feces and ammonia in diapers.
3. To protect against disease causing pathogens.
4. to protect the glans penis from friction and abrasion throughout life.
5. to keep the glans moisturized and soft with emollient oils.
6. to lubricate the glans.
7. to coat the glans with a waxy protective substance.
8. to provide sufficient skin to cover an erection by unfolding.
9. to provide an aid to masturbation and foreplay.
10. to serve as an aid to penetration.
11. to reduce friction and chafing during intercourse.
12. to serve as erogenous tissue because of its rich supply of erogenous receptors.
13. to contact and stimulate the G-spot of the female partner.
14. to produce pheromones to excite the female sexual partner.

It is normal to keep the foreskin forward over the head for protection. After the foreskin is amputated by circumcision, the head will be fully exposed and may be very painful.
Circumcision is an injurious, damaging, destructive, and harmful surgical operation that cuts through nerves and blood vessels that feed blood to the penis. The operation is irreversible. You will have the rest of your life to mourn your loss of your erogenous foreskin.
The foreskin is filled with nerves that make it the most sensitive part of the human body, therefore, cutting into it is very painful.
It takes about six weeks to recover from an adult circumcision. One should avoid getting erections masturbation and sexual activity during recovery. Oral ketoconazole may help to prevent postoperative erections. You will need lubrication to help you masturbate.

It is normal for the head of the penis to hurt after a circumcision because the protection provided by the foreskin is gone forever.

If excessive tissue is removed, the result will be painful, shorter erections.

One will never fully regain the lost protection, sexual function, sensation, and sexual pleasure, even if one restores the foreskin.

If you should become interested in restoring your foreskin, a search on the Internet for “foreskin restoration” will produce lots of information.

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Hey guys, I am an 18 year old who had a mild case of phismosis. I was cut four days ago, and honestly the pain is not as bad as I thought it would be. the glans is naturally really sensitive and it was quite painful to move at all the first three days, but i assure you the sensitivity does start to die down with each day. Remember the stitches will not dissolve completely for weeks and they can cause some serious pain too- hang tough until then. Personally im happy I finally got the operation done with and can move on, just focus on the positives of each day until you are completely healed! On day four (today) I find that walking isn't to bad any more, just be sure you wear briefs and not boxers because you need the penis to held so it cant hurt you whilst walking. We all made the right choice guys, it can only get better from here!

Full and total recovery is supposed to be 8 weeks, you can have sex normally after 6 weeks. Keep in mind these are general guidelines only. Dont worry about the pain, it gets better each day! Within 10 days you should be back to normal life (exuding sex and masturbation)

You just made the greatest mistake of your life.

I was circumcised at age 27 and have now lived even longer as a circumcised guy (now age 57), so I think II have some experience to share here. But having read a lot of threads like this one shows me that there is a fairly wide range of possible responses, and so it is not necessarily the case that your experience with match mine. For one thing, I was not circumcised because of phimosis. My foreskin was fully functional, and I could (and did) retract it easily and as often and for as long as I liked, including keeping it in a retracted condition indefinitely. This, as I will explain, turned out to be a problem for me. Anyway, I had some episodes with posthitis but they were manageable, and so I would say that my reasons for getting circumcised were more about hygiene and aesthetics, but also with some hope that the excessive sensitivity of my glans might be diminished as a result (as some people think is such a bad result--for me, it was very much desired!). The more it seemed to me that getting circumcised might be a good idea, the more I "tried it out" by retracting my foreskin and leaving it that way, so I could go around with my glans exposed all the time, as if I were circumcised. But the problem was that every time I did this, it was so uncomfortable that it was hard to force myself to stay that way. I even really tried to "gut it out" once by going as long as 5 days like that, but I was so uncomfortable the whole time I finally gave up and covered up again. So I delayed and delayed, because I was afraid of how long it might take to get used to it. But eventually, everyone kept telling me that I would get used to it and when I talked to a doctor about getting it done, he told me that it really wouldn't be a problem and that I would already be used to it and "just fine" (as he put it) as soon as I was physically healed form the surgery itself. Well...

So the healing really was no big deal, but the sensitivity issue took longer. Especially once the stitches were gone, the healing was no big deal at all, but the sensitivity of my glans and the rubbing on it were a real problem. I did notice that it slowly got better, however, and the doctor was right at least that it wasn't so much of a problem that I was actually uncomfortable--just more feeling a little uneasy and over-stimulated all the time--a mixture of being stimulated in good ways and also in some less comfortable or even mildly uncomfortable ways. But it slowly got better, and I would say that the full adjustment period took about a year.

But here's the thing--after a year, there was no more progress, but the process was, it seemed to me, still incomplete, relative to what I had hoped would happen. So even now, 30 years after being circumcised, I still feel all the rubbing and stimulation, and still have some mild discomfort, as a result (including being awakened from sleep because of some strong rubbing when I roll around in my sleep or get an erection) and am never completely "at ease" with all the sensation. So there is absolutely no doubt that it still feels really, really different and I have never completely adjusted to being like this--to the point of complete comfort and a sense of this being "normal." I think of it as my "circumcised experience," and it continues to be very different from what it was like to have a foreskin covering me there.

All things considered, I would still say that it has been better to be circumcised than before, but in terms of day-to-day and minute-to-minute comfort and that sense of "nothing happening down there," it seems all of that is gone forever, for me. I like sex better now, and have found that I don't have any of the old problems of being too sensitive to pain and such, and I also have better control over when (and how quickly) I reach orgasm. So there are lots of benefits and these outweigh the slight uneasiness of constant low level stimulation. Even so, if my case is any indication, you might find that the problem of sensitivity there, though it might improve to the point that it ceases to be a problem, also might not disappear altogether.

Hi,
I have had a circumcision about 5 weeks ago and have had the same problem. I'm still wearing a dressing over the glans as I find it super sensitive and am worried that its taking too long for the sensitivity to go down. I am feeling slightly more relieved to hear I am not the only one with this problem. How long will it take for the sensitivity to disappear? At the moment its the ridge of the glans that is most bothering me, however usually only when flaccid, (when erect its not a problem).