> # Phimosis Treatment with Topical Steroid Cream

> Written by Roxane at 13 Jan 2000 17:06:14:

> I'm new here and I don't want to step on any toes or offend anyone by plastering my name all over this board, but I just read an account of an adult circ and I
> found it very disturbing. I know that sometimes circumcission is the only option, but Topical Steroid Cream (Kenalog 0.1%) is successful in loosening the foreskin more than 90% of the time, making circumcission unnecessary.
> This info was difficult for me to find when all the doctors we were pushing for my son to have a circumcission and I would hate to think of anyone going through painfull surgery just because I was remiss in sharing this info.
> I know now, after hearing from men on this forum that it is possible to live with phimosis comfortably and happily, but for those men who need to resolve it
> here is a far less painfull alternative to circumcission.

ARC forum main index
forum1 index
page1 /page2

The Origins of a Taboo