Ive got redness around the head of my penis and theres a bit of redness on my foreskin im only 17.. I just noticed this yesterday I think it was because I washed once last week because theres no bath in the house we just moved into.. any suggestions..

I am over 60 and have had this problem for several months. It comes, stays around for a week or so, and goes once my "teatment" kicks-in, but it can be quite painful at its worst and it has ruined my sex-life!
I also now have a problem with getting my swollen foreskin to pull back over my glans – this after 40 years of a full sex-life, with no problems! Here are some useful tips from my Dr. that have worked for me:
1. Don't wash behind your foreskin with any kind of soap – use only warm water, and also not too often. I found that washing with soap iritates the damaged skin and makes the problem worse.
2. Immersing your penis in a cup-full of warm salt water will help the healing process, particularly if the foreskin is torn or the red patches on the glans are painful and itching.
3. After washing, dry yourself thoroughly with paper tissue, and only dab it, don't rub it.
4. Try applying about a pea sized blob of Germoline cream both inside and outside the foreskin. The Germoline with anesthetic stings at first, but that passes in a few seconds and then it works really well after that. This usually takes away the soreness and pain from any foreskin tears and red patches on the glans within one day – four cream applications per day.
4. I also use Clopidogrel cream (Canestan) regularly when the redness appears, since it was prescribed as the "long-term cure" by my Dr. After several months of using this cream I'm beginning to wonder what he meant by "long-term" :-(
Has any reader been cured of this problem???
My Dr wants me to have a Circumcision to solve my foreskin problem, but at my age I really don't fancy having that done.
Does amy older reader have experience of this "minor operation"???

hi i am a man of 51 years i get a creamy substance under my foreskin and it smells like fish i have suffered with this since i was about 20 years old can i get some form of treatment for it or do i need to shower and leave the foreskin backso it can be washed with water

Eddie S
john99

Hi to you both i've just read yer posts and can tell you that i've got this problem and it is Balanitis as it has meny diffrent forms, it sound like you to have the same probs i have (all be it less in john99 from wot i can tell) it's not eazy but you need to see a doc sooner than later as i left it till i started to have probs cleaning myself (have had since pubty i'm now 22) and cos of this i only have 2 options both op's (but think and only think had i gone in to the doc's sooner i cud have got away with a creem) i have to have a reless op or a full circumcision will deside when i meat with my doc later today (gess y i can't sleep) my under standing of wot we have is when i went thught pubty the for skin did not release as it shud do there for corsing this problem and john99 i know you mite (ha will) not wont to go to the doc's (i didn't) cos i didn't wont an operation but that may have made me have to have one now hope this helps both of you and any one eles with this problem :-) (p.s sorry for going on and on just this is hellping me come to terms with it.

My glans and the rim of my penis are so painfully sore. I've used betnovate creams but to no avail. This has been ongoing for 12 months now. I am unable to have sex, even taking a shower is extremely painful. I've noticed that the skin is coming off now leaving raw and very painful patches. Think the cream has made it worse. I have had psoriasis pretty bad in the past and sometimes still get small patches but not much. Could it be this? Please help. I'm in agony!!

Everytime i have sex or masturbate i am left with tiny small cuts on my foreskin. No matter how long i abstain from both activities when i start again i get the cuts again. When i peal my foreskin right back there is also a red ring around the inside of my foreskin. I have no idea what this is and would be greatful for any help???

the head of my penis gets red and itchy. its quite often brought on by sex but also can appear without sex. ive had it on and off for about 5 years but its been a lot more often in the last 12 months. Canestan and hydrocortizone creams help but then it always comes back. I wash it everyday, have salt baths, tried using non-biological washing powder but nothing really helps. ive been to my gp lots of times and been refered to hosp where their only solution is circumcision. what can i do it drives me mad and affects my sex life with my wife. could i be getting something off her.

Hi ive been suffering with something now for several years now and really need to know whats going on as its ruining my sex life.
The tip of my penis seems to get Very dry, its made worse if i dont have sex for more than 3ish days. It starts by going red, around the rim of the tip, then red patches will appear further up. it then starts to hurt and smell with a yellow 'gunge'.
Its as if, when it gets dry'that every time i get an errection the skin pulls back and takes off a layer of skin off the tip as it retracts.

i wash under my foreskin every couple of days, or every day when it gets to this stage. Ironnically, if i have regular sex when the penis is healthy, it stays fine! but if a leave a few days between intercourse it dries up and gets uncomfortable and i then have to wait a week until it heals itself up!

Please Help!

I had a condition when I was 9 which I now believe to have been a related condition, Balanitis Xerotica Obliterans (BXO for short). My foreskin had actually begun to heal itself up at the opening. It was like peeing out of a hose with your finger over the end; all over the place! It was solved with a circumcision, although from what I've read, this is not always 100% necessary these days.

hi
untill recently ive only learnt that the foreskin has to pulled back for sex, (im only 16). Now i can pull my foreskin back but when erect it doesnt go back by itself. Is this natrul or not? oh yeh and one more problem recently ive been getting cuts and tears in my foreskin is this normal? they heal ok within like 3 days. please help!!