When circ's go bad...

That was just in the news last year. Sadly, the victim committed suicide last year. Source:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/reimer/

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've never known a man who has needed a circ later in life. You don't hear about this in places where non-circumsized is the norm, so I am somewhat skeptical that this is really medically necessary all that often.

MY brother and three of my cousins had phimosis and had to be circumcised later in life. My family is from Brazil and there where isn't common for children to be circumcised it's very common to see older children or grown man being circumcised due to infections related to the inability of the foreskin to retract and such. I believe that here in the US we don't see that very much because most men are circumcised. But believe or nor it happens more often that you can imagine in other countries where most men aren't circumcised.

Lt Nurse

OMG from where in Brazil??? I lived in Paraiba and Sao Paulo state for so many years!!!!!

beijo !
Ginny Doula RN SNM

I have family in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.

LTNurse

I've just seen one that bled for awhile. I don't like watching them either but I do help the doc. Plus all 3 of my boys are circ'd. And the 20 and 22 year old have told me they are glad.

I was all for NOT doing it but Dad won out.

Funny how the guys actually want it done.

steph

I think guys like their penises, period.
My husband is not circ'd and is glad.