DS has a hospital apt tomorrow about this and wondering if anyone else has experience of phimosis? DS is 4 and very often has painful /red tip of penis.
When we went to the the GP, she said that a solution would be circumcision - there were no other options explored. That's fine since I'm hoping the hospital will have some other options, but I've just noticed that we're seeing a paediatric surgeon and wondering if we are already going down the surgery route.
While I know that no surgeon wants to operate on a child unnecessarily, I really don't want DS to be circumcised if it can be helped. That said, if that is the only thing that will solve the problem then I would rather it was done sooner than later - I can't help feeling that an op of that nature would be worse for an older child.
Has anyone got any experience or advice that might help me get my head round it before we go to the hospital?
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Circumcision / phimosis in pre-schooler
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CheekyWeeGandT · 18/05/2015 11:49
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