When circ's go bad...

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Has anyone seen a circ go really bad? I saw one today where the doc took too much foreskin off and the skin on the shaft ended up "degloving" from the fascia underneath. A urologist had to come in and do "damage control." The people I've talked with say they've never seen anything like this happen before.

I have 3 brothers...all are circed. I have one son...he is too along with my husband. When I was pregnant with my son, my brother asked if I was going to circ the baby. I said yes. My brother's reply was "GOOD! Because everytime I look down at my member I want to thank mom and dad!". As a woman, I think a circumcised member looks better than uncirced, but that is a matter of personal opinion of course. :)

Now, my grandfather was not circed, but needed to be circed around age 55 for severe phimosis. My mom told me that my grandpa actually told my dad that his sex life is better now than before circ, the sensations are better. Here grandpa is in his late 60s now and still stands by that opinion.

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.
Now, my grandfather was not circed, but needed to be circed around age 55 for severe phimosis.

That's why if i had boy babies, i'd have it done. I wouldn't want them to go through that as an adult.

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All our docs but one do lidocaine prior . . nothing after. The one who does nothing is a kinda Vietnam Vet Ironman Doc . . . . rugged idealist type and very vocal about his politics. He will not give lidocaine - I've had to assist in two circs this week with him . . . .I tell ya Fergus, I'm about to follow your lead and refuse to do it anymore. Watching as a babies member is ripped to shreds with no pain relief while being held down . . . . . too much for me.

At least make it pain free . . .

steph

I should add that fortunately it isn't our hospital docs doing the circs most of the time. The outside OBs all give pain meds.

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there is a trib in africa i dont remember the name, but the men in this tribe

actually tie the foreskin so when they go fishing sothey dont get worms from the water in the member. there is a specific creature that is attracted to urine and they travel up the uretra and actually have hooks. they are extremly painful.

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

Sounds like the process of prevention is extremely painfuil as well.

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It cracks me up that one of the ads you can click on when you open this topic is for curing phimosis without circumcision.

Now back to your regularly scheduled debate... er, discussion.

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That's why if i had boy babies, i'd have it done. I wouldn't want them to go through that as an adult.

Yeah, I'd rather they go through that as an infant.

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When people make the arguement that it is not fair to circumcise a baby because they cannot give consent....what about parents who elect to have a child's ears surgically pinned back??? Isn't that not fair as well?

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it's the same thing in my book, Yes Tweetie.

No one is going to win the circ debate. I would urge we not get into such an ugly debate again.

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When people make the arguement that it is not fair to circumcise a baby because they cannot give consent....what about parents who elect to have a child's ears surgically pinned back??? Isn't that not fair as well?

I would consider any non-reconstructive plastic surgery on minors unable to consent as being wrong. Again, that's just my personal opinion. I wouldn't try to stop a parent from doing it to their child because it is completely legal, just like circumcision. It's none of my business.

Btw, I have big ears. I grew up ok:chuckle It's one of the few things that I have that ties me to my biological family.

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Hi , Im not a nurse yet, but I have four sons. With my first son we decided to have him circumcised. It was hell, they had him in there for over 40 min. and I could hear him crying. When finally done the Dr. asked me if I liked how it turned out. It was so swollen and covered that I couldn't tell and even if I didn't like it I wasn't going to send him back in there with her. He's 10 now and you can't even tell that he was circumcised she did horrible. That was the first time I had met her. With my second son, we did have him circumcised because I knew the Dr. , he was mine when I was a kid, and he finished within 10 to 15 min. It turned out perfect and my son did not suffer long at all. With my 3 and 4 sons we moved again and I did not know the Dr. and was not willing to risk it with them they are both uncircumcised. My husband is not circumcised either. When my 2nd son asks me questions I tell him he was the only one that had a doctor I could trust. If I could of had that same doctor for all of my sons I would have had them all circumcised. My 10 year old takes showers but it is so hard to get him to clean himself correctly. And my two younger sons have a hard time when the member protudes out of the forskin it burns them. Anyways, that is my story, If the circumcision is done right I am for it. But since I had so much trouble with the different dr's I wish I would have just let them all be uncircumcised

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Specializes in OB, lactation.

I have read that many or perhaps most of the "have to get it done when they are an adult" cases are from mistreatment; i.e. back in the day (and sometimes still now), moms were advised to retract and clean before it was ready to &/or docs would forceably retract it. Thus, scar tissue was often formed and led to problems later in life.

Most people know better nowadays (although not all- I have had the bad advice given to me more than once!) & those problems should be lessened in the young guys coming up now.

Remember, most of the world (yes, first world countries too) doesn't circ and there isn't a big problem with having to get it done later.

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