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Consultation: Soreness on the Penis

Dr Christian Jessen diagnoses a patient complaining of irritation and soreness on his penis in this consultation from the first series of Embarrassing Illnesses. At the same time Dr Jessen gives out some advice on STDs and the perils of unsafe sex.

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Im 15 and im currently going through puberty. However, i cant pull my foreskin back over my penis and i am just wondering whether it will do it itself or whether i need to force it. Thanks

for the past 6 months i'm suffering from sore in penis not continous but with breaks. 1st on feburary i had reddish sore only one and took some antibiotics which did not worked. after few days my penis head and soft covering skin wheathered out in form of white scales then i ran to a dermatologist. he prescribed some anti fungal medicine and onitiment. after 1 or 2 months again the sore began to reappear and this time small white painless bumps may be 10 to 20 nos below the penis head and the body , and red sore in penis head and body connecting skin appeared. again the dr prescibed the same medicine.
after 1.5 months it again reappered but in mean while the white bumps is continous which is painless and non itchy. only the red sores and mild itchy and mild burning sensation. then i changed the dr . the new dr is renowed dermatologist of this region. hi prescibed medicine completely erdicated the problem except the white painless bump.
but after one month whitish scaling reappeared for 1 or 2 days and near my urinating hole of my penis head red strip appeared which way little bit itchy with mild burning sensation.then i got little bit worried and ran towards my nearest city.
it took 2 or 3days to get appointment to a dr, by the time my penis had calm down. and when the dr examined my penis he could not see anything so he advised me to perform herpes simplex (1&2) antibody IgG and IgM test.
my blood test reprot
IgG: 6.3
IgM: 0.1
with this report i returned to my previous dr, he saw the report and examined my sore(which was once again relapsed) he said i was not suffering from genital herpes, after he prescribed one antibacterical onitement and one anti fungus but no tablet no capsule and the he told it may reoccur pls start continuing the ontiment no need to come back.
my question if this is not herpes why i'm having frequent out breaks ?
if this is bacteria or fungi why can't i be completely cured?

Hi chris the other day I saw some little red spots on my penis and seems to be getting worse I have no pain or anything just red spots the only thing I can put it down to is to much mansterbating as I havnt had sexual intercorse in 3 month

Hi erm my forskin is attached to the head of my penis is this normal if i started puberty about 1 year ago ?

my foreskin does not come back unless i pull it back. but this is a bit painful. What should i do?????

Hello i've really want to sort this out coz it gives me distress very often. when i'm showering i'm concerned about getting smegma so i try to wash my penis but my foreskin won't peel back but i don't want to get circumcised can you help?

i have pain when weeing through my penis it is sore and feels like burning

what can i do

I have the same problem as the gentleman in the video, there was reference to a dermatologist but no diagnosis. I would like to know what the doctor said about the problem.

My teenage son has just turned 13 and is quite young for his age, he was wondering when he should try to pull his foreskin back, and I suggested Now. So as he did and got a result, it has now stuck over the tip of his penis, it is causing him some distress and has swollen up quite a bit, i suggested that he put on baby oil to try and soften the skin but with limited success for him to ge the foreskin back over. This is now cusing my wife and I some distress as it is keeping my son up at night and is causing him considerable discomfort. Can you please tell me if this is normal and a bit of advise would be great.

i had unsafe sex and have found my penis is sore and ichy under forskin and i was always clean be4 this happent. when i had unsafe sex found like chesse stuff everday and i clean it away every day i dont like it what do i do




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