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> # PART III - Doctors Know Everything

> Written by chImp at 02 Sep 2004 20:30:40:

> As an answer to: My Full And Honest Experience With Phimosis written by chImp at 02 Sep 2004 20:13:18:

> PART III - Doctors Know Everything

> The spring/summer months of 2002 were a hell for me.
> I understood something was seriously wrong with me,
> I was mistaken about what it was. I knew I wouldn't
> have much of a sensation if I were to have sex.
> I came across all those numerous Internet sites that
> tell you how bad it is to be circumcised. I thought
> I was circed myself, though in reality it was quite
> the opposite - I had a tight foreskin and have never
> seen my own glans.

> I was filled with rage and depression that I was robbed
> of something important. I was vehemently anti-circ at
> that time, and I have had a distaste for Routine Infant Circumcision
> ever since. Muslims and Jews do it to their children, and so do
> about 50% of American parents.

> Even worse: as I understand now, my urine was collecting
> itself underneath my foreskin (it was virtually trapped), which
> lately caused unpleasant sensations when I was walking or touching my
> penis.

> I had a problem, and everytime I heard the word "circumcision",
> it reminded me. Whenever I walked, it reminded me. Whenever I saw
> people have sex on TV or masturbated myself, it reminded me.
> So finally I went to the doctor. It was a female doctor, and I told
> her ("The top of my penis bothers me - that's glans isn't it? And oh,
> I was circumcised when I was an infant because I had phimosis"). That statement couldn't be further from the truth.

> So, guess what she told me? She studied my penis closely and gave
> me some cream or whatever to put it there. I were to return in a couple
> of weeks if there was no improvement.

> No "What are you, crazy? You're not circumcised at all. Where did
> you get that absurd idea?". Just the perscription for the cream.
> Apparently, some female doctors do know the difference between
> circumcised and uncircumcised("intact").

> Luckily, when I came back, I appointed a male doctor as my GP. He
> told me exactly what I didn't hear the last time. He immideately
> put me on waiting list for an operation (I think, maybe a "dorsal slit", certainly not a circumcision).

> That was September 9th 2002, the WORST day of my life. Because when I
> came back to my apartment, I collapsed. I didn't understand ANYTHING.
> Depression is when you don't bother doing anything. What I had is this:
> EVERY single thought led to PAIN. Not only could I not do anything but
> lie on the bed, I couldn't even THINK about anything, because that led
> to a mental AGONY.

> I never ever had experienced such a mental state in my life- not before
> that day, nor ever after.

> After a few days I calmed down. I becan to understand a bit more about
> how the penis works. And I accepted that I had to undergo that surgery.
> I just waited for that letter in the mailbox that would say that
> it was my turn.

> However, I was utterly depressed. I had no faith in doctors. How could
> they slice open my foreskin, and everything suddenly would be OK?
> Like I never had phimosis?

> The answer is: it would NOT be OK. I later came across pictures of what a dorsal slit looks like. On those pictures, half the glans is exposed.
> And the foreskin is cut on opposit sides. That did not look good, and
> all the anti-circ material reminded me how fast I will lose the sensitivity
> of the glans if nothing covers it.

> What I wanted, was to have a penis that would look and function as if
> I grew up WITHOUT phimosis. That operation failed that test.

> So, I just waited for my operation. But then something fascinating happened to me.

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