Saturday, August 6, 2011

Circumcision at 14? Nervous?

The procedure is simple. It's usually done with a local anesthetic and takes about forty minutes. The bruising and swelling take a week or so to subside. My stitches started to fall out on the tenth day and were all out by the fourteenth. Everything was back to working condition after a month. The only discomfort I had was when the stitches came in contact with my underwear. Don't play with it for at least a month (you might tear the incision) and when you do use a water lubricant like K-Y Jelly (do not use Vaseline) the first few times. Complications are extremely rare about as rare as winning a million dollar lottery. Cosmetically it should look much better than an infant circumcision because the surgeon has more to work with. My scar is not visible (it was placed 10mm below the crown) unless it's erect and the scar tissue is barely visible when it is erect. No reason to freak out.

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