I wish I would have found this site before my circumcision. I am 46 and I had been going back and forth trying to decide about doing a circumcision. For years I had been dealing with the issue of having skin tear and inflammation. Well I finally made the decision and scheduled a consultation appointment. Doctor asked me a series of questions and said no problem, we can do this. My surgery was on Aug. 24. After the surgery, I didn't have to take any pain medication. The doctor said to leave the bandage for two days, and when I took it off, it was pretty inflamed. I didn't know that was normal so I got scared. Especially because I noticed two dark marks (picture # 11) right by the cut as if he had used a marker, except that it was sensitive and if I touched it, it hurt. After a week, the marks started to peel off and I noticed that my skin underneath the mark was as if it had been burnt. Does anyone know what this might have been. When I had my two weeks appointment, I asked the doctor if he what the marks were and he said, "I don't know". "What were you doing?" That threw me off completely. Also, during the first 3 weeks, I noticed that whenever I would urinate, I would have a hard time starting. It felt the same as when you have an erection and you try to urinate. I still don't feel I am completely back to normal on that aspect. When I asked him about that, he said, "I had nothing to do with that." "I only worked on the outside of your penis". I am thinking it is probably because of the inflammation, so he could have just said that in fact it is because of the inflammation. As far as the healing, I feel that it has taken a long time. I have not been able to have sex or masturbate. Doctor said he put the stitches that dissolve in 4 - 5 weeks. That is another thing I don't understand. I feel he didn't do a good job with the stitches since some are bigger stitches than others and you can tell the skin will be left with a stitch mark. Now it has been 33 days and the stitches finally fell off, but I still have part of the stitches inside my skin sticking out. Whenever I get an erection, I still bleed from there. Does anyone know how long it takes loose them. Do I have to pull them out, or will they come out on its own?
Overall, I am pleased with the results, except for the stitch marks, the black marks on my skin I don't even know from what and the fact that he said he had not done.
