Is the circumcision surgery to cure phimosis painful?

Question

I am going to get it done and I am very scared.

Answer 1

You don't need circumcision to cure phimosis.

You can either do about 3 months worth of stretching exercises with steroidal ointment,

or

Have a surgery called a dorsal slit (or Preputial Plasty). Unlike circumcision, it removes none of your pleasure receptive capacity.

Run, don't walk, to a DIFFERENT doctor - WHO HAS A FORESKIN - for advice on how to treat your condition without amputating valuable body parts. 80% of the world does not routinely circumcise, and for good reason. The foreskin includes over half of the sensual nerve endings.

-Ron

Answer 2

Circumcision will be painful for at least a week afterwards and then annoying to uncomfortable for several more weeks; hopefully they'll give you proper anesthetics during the operation so you won't feel anything.

Depending on the severity of your phimosis you may not even need a circumcision. If it's not causing pain upon erections then you could try stretching exercises, this resolves the issue in most cases. Take two fingers and stretch the opening of the foreskin as far as it'll go (like increasing its radius) without pain by hooking a finger on either side of the foreskin. It's kind of hard to describe and may take some experimenting to get right. Do this for a few minutes each day for a few weeks.

If that doesn't work after like 3-4 weeks then you can ask your doctor about prescription creams that're supposed to help. If after another few weeks of that and it still doesn't work, there are many other options before circumcision should be considered (see links).

If you're getting circumcised because your doctor suggested it as a first option, then I wouldn't get it done and go look for a second or third opinion. If you're getting circumcised because you've tried all the above and then some, and none of it helps, then by all means go ahead with it. Again, it'll hurt for a few days to a week, then be uncomfortable for several more weeks as you and your penis adjusts.

Answer 3

It's painful and unnecessary. Recovery is about six weeks. It can cause many complications, as it damages the penis and destroys sexual sensitivity. Type in circumstitions on your browser and you will see some of the complications of this mutilation. Your doctor won't tell you about them. They always cut too much skin off, and it results in tight, sometimes painful and distorted erections and complete sexual dysfunction. There is no such thing as a good circumcision. You have a whole penis, why would you want a partial, mutilated and scarred one? Damaging it certainly won't make it feel of function better, and it will make it smaller.

Answer 4

The surgery itself won't hurt (you'll be asleep). Unfortunately the aftermath will, but only for a short while.

Answer 5

It depends on your age... if you are a teen... it is hard as you can't pleasure yourself... yes... it will hurt but it will get better soon

Answer 6

RECONSIDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you have "TRUE phimosis"?
Use Conservative Treatments, instead of mutilation, read below.









The “medical” reasons for circumcision are for Doctors to make MONEY!!!
Circumcision is “nothing” compared to other much more terrible things that people do for MONEY, when MONEY is involved EVERYRHING is possible, MONEY is the priority not moral values, not ethics, not health, not wrong or right, not even human life, etc. People are selfish by nature. And that is soooo sad. $$$CASH$$$

MOTHERS, the feelings of mothers who observed the circumcision of their babies. Go here if you have the courage:
http://www.circumcision.org/mothers.htm
They do not remember the pain when they grow up, but I wonder what kind of neurological/emotional damage it does to inflict such severe pain to such a young one!

In the US circumcision started to stop boys from masturbating; they will take much longer to reach the orgasm, and the orgasm will not be as intense, but that will not stop them.
Nowadays the “medical” reasons to circumcision are for Doctors to make MONEY!!!

RELIGION--If God intended boys to not have "skin" He would have made them so.
Also, if you examine the bible, lest just say that is full of terrible things that are considered very illegal nowadays, and many of those terrible things are AGAINST WOMEN. Women, how would you like it if those things get legalized?
http://www.nocirc.org/religion/

HYGIENE--Use a new invention, soap and water!!! Women produce much more “smegma”, all kinds of discharges, wetness, and smells; because of physiologic and anatomical reasons, and how would you feel if they cut your vulva lips??? Women, why don’t you answer my question, are you afraid? Baby girls are more likely to get urinary tract infections and no one suggests we surgically alter them at birth to reduce the risks! Just one of many double standards and laws that always treat men worse.

MEDICAL REASONS--No medical reasons. A extremely small chance of a complication do not justify the removal of the foreskin, if so, why don't we remove the tonsils and the appendix when a child is born, and the chance of complications of the tonsils and the appendix is much greater. And what is even greater is the chance of breast cancer so the best thing to do is to remove the breast glands of young girls or at least remove them at the first sign of trouble without trying any alternative treatments first in order to preserve the breast(women, how do you like it now?). And for infections of all the organs, including female organs, use a new invention called antibiotics. Talking about complications, in fact many baby boys die each year from circumcision and related complications.
EVEN if “TRUE phimosis” occurs, instead of chopping it off like barbarians!, use Conservative Treatments like:
-Topical Medication(non-traumatic and non-destructive)
-Dilation and Stretching(non-traumatic and non-destructive)
-Combination treatment(non-traumatic and non-destructive)
-Preputioplasty is the medical term for plastic surgery of the prepuce or foreskin(many methods).
If you want more detail on Conservative Treatments, go here:
http://www.cirp.org/library/treatment/phimosis/
http://www.circinfo.org/alternatives.html
The foreskin can still be tight even after puberty, and it is natural, not TRUE phimosis.
And now they invented a new reason to make money, the risk of STD in uncircumcised men. Well actually uncircumcised men have more protection, but in practical terms that protection means nothing, because circumcised or not, if you have sex without protection and your partner have an STD you will be infected FOR SURE! That means, it is just one more stupid and desperate reason in order to make money with circumcisions.

SEX--Foreskin actually enhances the sexual experience for men because it constantly moves over the head of the penis causing more friction and pleasure. Men will also lose much sensitivity to the glans if circumcised.
Circumcised men will have to deal with discomfort and dry glans. Uncircumcised men, pull the foreskin back for a day, and see how it feels against your underwear all day, and see what happens. The frenulum is the G SPOT in men.
The foreskin have those functions: protective, erogenous, sensory, and sexual physiologic. After all, why would you want to lose all of those “Meissner corpuscles”, the same nerve complexes which provide fine touch to the fingertips?
It is there for many reasons, that is how a man should be(it is natural).
If women like it better circumcised because it looks better(strange, not natural) or gives them more sexual pleasure(strange, not natural), then too bad, they do not have the right! All men do not like mutilated vulvas, and all men like breasts with nipples, they do not like mutilated breasts, etc, etc, etc, because that is the way those organs are supposed to be, it is natural. Interesting, isn’t?!!!

If that was a common practice to do that to baby girls, all the women would be in a BIG UPROAR about it(and men too!, men are not like women), but it’s ok to mutilate little boys. The great majority of the ones that agree with circumcision are women for their stupid selfish reasons. Even court cases reported in which mother and father fight because the mother wants to mutilate the son, it is always the mother!. You women should be ashamed to that to your son. Men that are not circumcised, will not get circumcised when adults, they would scream, kick, fight and run, if someone tries to mutilate their privates area, just like you women would run too if someone tried to do that to your labia. Men that where circumcised do not realize what they lost because never had one, and most of them that do realize try to justify it so they do not feel bad about it. Many circumcised men feel very bad emotionally because of what was done to them to such a private area.
It is mutilation of defenceless children in the most private spot, genital mutilation.
It is cruel and barbaric.
It is a human rights violation.
It is not the parent’s decision; it is the parent’s decision if they want to abuse him, rape him, or to kill him? It is the parent’s decision to choose the son religion? How can he chose a religion or his believes, if he is just a baby?
I do not even agree that it is ok if an adult man wants to get circumcised. I think it is wrong, because if a man wants to lose a finger, the Doctor can not do that to him. Think about it, think, think. And by the way, adult men that decide to get circumcised, do it because they know most women like it, they just do it to be more accepted by women.
I think it is just like slavery and all other barbaric acts of the past, it was accepted because it was common practice or tradition, everyone accepted slavery without questioning the facts, but it is not accepted anymore in a modern and fair and civilized society. Circumcision must not be allowed, BY LAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Many other reasons not to do it, check it out:
http://www.mothersagainstcirc.org/
http://www.cirp.org/library/treatment/phimosis/
http://www.noharmm.org/
http://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/
http://www.circumcisionquotes.com/boydies.html

Answer 7

get it done, then it will be over