Finally went thru with it. I went so far as to fly to Atlanta, something that I would never have done otherwise. I rented a hotel for two nights and went to the surgeon to get cut. Arriving there was alright, I wasn’t even thinking on the surgery I distracted myself with everything else in Atlanta. I went to the World of Coca Cola, tried Tacomac and went back to the hotel. Took lots of pictures before the surgery that I was about to go thru…
Then the day finally came. I was so nervous and a bit scared. I finally go there to the waiting room, they were already for me. They knew my name and everything was all set up in the operating room in the back all set for me. While I was waiting for my name to be called I was a ball of nerves. People from Reddit that knew I was getting this operation done knew what was going thru my mind and they were so lovely and helpful. It felt strange getting help from random strangers. A friend came with me and I’m extremely thankful for that, having someone physical there supporting you every step of the way is definitely better. The online people seemed to me to be something like it I felt like they were right there with me. They are going to go thru the same thing in a few months I want to be there for them as well.
During the consultation I spoke to the surgeon and he was willing to hear me out, see pictures and didn’t judge me at all. After I thought I relayed my message in the most eloquent way I could, I was sent to the operating room. I was all prepped and sterilized with betadine solution and then the assistant was just there waiting for the surgeon to come in. I was dreading the initial injection; I’ve heard is the most painful part of the whole operation. I asked the assistant, who seemed to be about my age, he told me that it does hurt but that it goes out fairly quickly. The whole thing was weird because there I am laying in an operating table with a light shinning at my half naked body and having a total normal conversation with a guy I just met.
The doctor finally came in and inspected my penis. He was handling it and asking me question about the placement of the scar and everything to make sure I got the best cosmetic result. I could not feel the whole handling of the doctor but my penis did react to it even though I didn’t feel a thing. So there is a doctor handling my half boner and asking me questions while I was just there trying to ignore the fact that I was getting a boner that I could not feel. The usual operation time is about 40 minutes but it took two to one and a half hours for me to finally finish. He had to take a couple of stitches out because they didn’t look right and in his words, he “was too picky and want[ed] this to be completely perfect” it came down to the frenulum and he in a way convinced me to cut it. In a very non bias way he in his own experience and based on my own anatomy said that it could go with or without the frenulum but that it would definitely look better without it because it was going to be a really smooth transition between my inner and outer foreskin so the frenulum absent will heal beautifully. He said there might not even be a scar at all given the fact that I have “good skin.” In his opinion my skin was “good” because there was no scarring and there was a very define anatomy, he could see the veins and arteries before he cut them so he could move them where he needed them and he could cauterize any bleeding before it started. He said that I didn’t bleed at all, any of the blood that was there was the blood that was already in the skin as he was cutting so it made this operation a fairly easy to do. It only took long because he had to take off a couple sutures and had to re-stitch them to make sure everything was just perfect. Also for some reason, and I’ve experienced this before when I had my wisdom teeth removed about 3 weeks before, I’m immune to the anesthetic. As he was trying to cauterize the frenulum my leg jumped and hit the tool tray at the operating table. This was caused because I completely felt the electrocautery-tool as it burned. It was a really sharp electric pain but it quickly went away. The surgeon was very surprised at this so he added more anesthetic but again I could feel it. It took five tries for him to finally anesthetize the region; he said that there was probably a nerve running from the glans to the frenulum so he finally found it and anesthetized it. He then proceeded to cut the tension point in the frenulum. He asked for my opinion on the look of it, which I was stupidly pointing at it without my hands being sterile. He quickly told me to be careful and not touch anything but he did what I wanted exactly.
After everything was all done I was wrapped in a really tight bandage that I’m supposed to keep for about 10 days and make sure I keep it dry with some dry un-lubricated condoms that he provided. The surgeon left the room and the assistant handed me some baby wipes to help me clean up all the betadine out of my legs balls and pelvis. He told me that I could dress now and before I left I asked him if it was ok to take a picture. He non-shallantly said “whatever makes you happy man, some people take it with them” I laughed and told him “I highly doubt this is TSA approved.” I then went to the pharmacy to get the antibiotics they gave me and the percoset I was prescribed. To be completely honest I didn’t need the pain killers. The pain was from 1-10 it was a 1 to sometimes a 2, a bit uncomfortable but not at all super painful. We decided to go to the Atlanta Aquarium afterwards and we took advantage of the fact that I had the doctor’s paper to get a wheel chair. My friend rolled me around the aquarium and we got priority to everything because of the handicap signs. While in the aquarium I could see other guys and for once in my life, after many many years I was not concerned on whether or not they were uncut or cut. That has been the whole reason why I went to get this surgery. This surgery was such an obsession that it didn’t allow me to continue with my life without me spending time looking, researching, wondering about each guys circumcision status and dreading mine. I needed this surgery for my own mental stability. Now I’m here at home recuperating and I have to go back to work but to be honest it seems that I am “cured” I can now focus on other things and aspects of my life. It still weird to say “I am circumcised” but I can finally say yes I am so what? I’m quite happy this is becoming a thing of the past now and I can focus more energy into other more fulfilling things in my life. This doesn’t run my life … anymore.
Nice to hear he was detailed and took the frenulum
Too bad he couldn’t feed his foreskin to the fishes.
This is why RIC is best so a guy never has to stress over doing it later.
I was uncircumcised my entire life. I never liked the look and feel of my foreskin growing up, and have been considering circumcision for about 8 years.
When I was 19, I decided to permanently retract my foreskin behind my head. For about a week, the foreskin that bunched up behind my head swelled, but the head desensitized a bit and the foreskin was trained from that point to be retracted. Even with the foreskin retracted, I did not find it aesthetically pleasing. I was not comfortable in my own (fore)skin.
Over the next 5 years, I continued to experience discomfort with my foreskin. I felt that it got in the way during masturbation and sex. It would go over the head when I would sit down or when it was very cold.
Today, at 23, I was circumcised. This was a personal decision, and I had a very well-respected urologist perform the surgery.
I plan to post picture updates daily at first, then weekly, then monthly until healed.
I hope to help any others who are unhappy with their foreskins if they choose to take the same route of circumcision that I did.
