Pulled back — living with a bare head

Apologies for the late reply. I got swamped by a lot of work and chores, and kept wanting to reply but then putting it off when I could get a break.

Regarding the emergency rooms, doctors there have to triage you based on the possibility of life-threatening or serious harm. If you go there presenting with a chronic, perhaps very distressing but nonetheless non-life-threatening medical condition, they have to turn you away because that's not what the emergency section is for. Never be shy to seek emergency medical help when you have to, and it's better to ask for it than to demur, but it helps to have a better expectation of what the doctors there are meant to do. Just an example, if you had to be brought in with pain 9 out of 10, the doctors would look at you and will at least put you under observation in emergency care. If you have something stuck in some orifices you can't get out... sinuses, ear canal maybe, rectum lol, they will help you to get it out (you may have to wait). If you are delirious and in confusion, comatose, or slipping in and out of consciousness, they will attend to you. But these are the types of cases they have to prioritize and reserve their capacity for.

The sexual health clinics are a good idea, but don't be too invested in the idea that it could only be a fungal infection. I think it could be anything. Have you heard of ureaplasma? Granted the symptoms are different, I just brought that up to highlight that every year, we get more and more info about pathogens that affect our genitals that we never knew about before, just because insufficient information was collected.

Have you tried using the fucidic acid? An alternative is povidone iodine solution, but you shouldn't use it for too long or too much in case of absorption into the bloodstream affecting your thyroid.

Twenty years is quite a long time to have the jock itch! I hope you'll be able to clear it out and achieve a full cure this time, you don't want to let any fungi adapt to your body's immune system.

I'm also impressed you're doing keto. I couldn't stick with that more than a week because I became cranky and almost insane, nearly dysfunctional with all sorts of cravings.

Overall though, I think your health is in a positive trajectory, just keep on with what you're doing, take care of your mental health and stressors as well, and don't give up.

P.S: I wonder if ketonuria could be contributing to your penis condition? I've heard that the urine from a keto diet is extremely irritating

Quote from: stephen.reilly79 on 2024-04-04 13:29:47The NHS used to be the world leader in healthcare, but that's pretty much exactly what it's like in the UK as well nowadays: overworked doctors who aren't allowed enough time to actually help anyone. My previous GP was excellent, but she worked fewer and fewer hours and then changed careers. I suspect it was due to occupational stress.

Appreciate the reply. Yeah, I am basically stuck until the 22nd. I'm only exposing my glans at night, and only because the cooling effect reduces the burning.

Issue I have is when I show the doctors, in a shrunk flaccid state, they can't see the infection. In the pics it shows up better. Let's hope the dermatologist is in a good mood and sends me for a swab/scrape test.

Quote from: King Tuck on 2024-04-03 13:24:41Interesting set up . . . Unfortunately I don't think this site is user friendly at all and takes way to
Much time and effort to understand

Although this is probably the wrong topic for that...

Well, the site's been around for over 10 years, and forums used to be more commonplace back then.  It is what it is.

As stated before by others the time will vary. I can't recall specifically but I'd say mine way anywhere from 6 months to under a year.

I would probably have to say seeing my fathers growing up was the first as he was circumcised and then my own when I first started retracting around 7.

I don't remember as I don't remember a time when I couldn't retract my foreskin.

Would much prefer that they didn't.

The NHS used to be the world leader in healthcare, but that's pretty much exactly what it's like in the UK as well nowadays: overworked doctors who aren't allowed enough time to actually help anyone. My previous GP was excellent, but she worked fewer and fewer hours and then changed careers. I suspect it was due to occupational stress.

Quote from: bareuncut on 2024-03-30 08:05:49OP: You caught a bad infection from your encounter which can be serious (as serious as Syphilis or even HIV, or as simple as e-coli). Don't be scared. See a "real" doctor as soon as you can. Your GP can help. Or, you can go to a public health clinic, or an urgent care clinic, or even to accident and emergency room of a hospital. They will run a series of blood tests, urine culture, urethra swab, etc. I would NOT delay. Your chances of cure or getting better depends how fast you start accurate "real" treatment. If you postpone, things may become very complex to life threatening. You may get prostate infection (prostatitis) from very simple bacterial infection (e-coli etc.), which is often incurable. Retraction or anti-fungal creams will not help at all and may make it worse. Please see a REAL doctor soon. Wish you all the best. Good luck.

I thought I would follow up on this. On the 2nd, It was stinging more than usual, like a 2 out of 10, so I figured I'd use some Miconazole on it, at this point it couldn't hurt I though. Wow did that cream sting like a mofo! I was in 4 out of 10 pain for the next 2-3 hours.
I then felt sick the whole day yesterday, and then today. So I went to the hospital to get checked out.

I waited 4hr to see someone, and the doctor comes in and says "Sorry I am an emergency doctor, I have no idea what to do with this, but I'll take a look". So I showed him my penis, and I showed him the photos you guys saw.

He was like "yeah I have no idea what to do for this, go talk to your GP". So I asked him "is there any way of doing a test? a urine test? or a swab?" - "yeah we would normally do things like that if you had a big abscess or it looked really infected. This does not look that serious to me. We won't do anything here, go home and talk to your GP". And that was it, 5 min of his precious time.

Do you see why I didn't bother? I'll try some sexual health clinics next, but right now it looks like April 22nd with dermatologist is my only chance for now to actually make progress.

I have also noticed like others that the longer I have been keeping it pulled back that the more pleasurable it is to play with the head in general. Very intense orgasms with new sensations when I have it pulled back too.