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Alright, I'm MOS certified hehe! Thank you DLD I'm excited to start my journey once more. That's all I needed to know I appreciate your guidance and what you've done and are doing for this community brother, be blessed!

I will always take blessings anywhere I can! God bless you my Brother
 
Hi all, would love your wisdom. After resolving phimosis some 10-11 years ago from stretching, have since been plagued with a tight frenulum. Started reading about tying frenulum and very intrigued with the idea (after receiving a $1000 estimate WITH INSURANCE to get it cut from a urologist!)
As is visible in the third image, just really concerned about the many many nerves that seem to be running through it, and certainly not seeing how to make a piercing and a tie that wouldn't wrap AROUND and pinch a nerve. If there is some loss of sensitivity, I think it'd be worth the reduced pain (from frenulum being tugged at when I'm trying to penetrate), but I don't want to be doing anything catastrophic to myself... Thoughts?
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Umm too impatient... Did it! I thought pushing the needle through would be less sensation-invoking than it ended up being (lidocaine 4%), but I've experienced way more pain than that before... It was just nerve-wrecking because one was doing it to oneself, and the fear of not having a medical professional being responsible! I found it helpful to keep applying gentle pressure from the needle and give it 2-3 minutes of slow, gradual pressure to push through the layers of skin, rather than one forceful poke. I think there was 1-2 drops of blood after the fact. No noteworthy pain or sensation.

I used ordinary needle/polyester thread from the pharmacy. Hope it does the trick and hope the tie was strong enough! It was numb when I tied it, so I tried to pull as much as the flimsy thread would let me.

I was definitely conservative and was super close to the glans, which means more pokes before it's resolved, but I'll try to be patient (not my strong suit, but better safe than sorry).

Any idea how long to wait (if any) before using a swimming pool/hot tub?
 
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Umm too impatient... Did it! I thought pushing the needle through would be less sensation-invoking than it ended up being (lidocaine 4%), but I've experienced way more pain than that before... It was just nerve-wrecking because one was doing it to oneself, and the fear of not having a medical professional being responsible! I found it helpful to keep applying gentle pressure from the needle and give it 2-3 minutes of slow, gradual pressure to push through the layers of skin, rather than one forceful poke. I think there was 1-2 drops of blood after the fact. No noteworthy pain or sensation.

I used ordinary needle/polyester thread from the pharmacy. Hope it does the trick and hope the tie was strong enough! It was numb when I tied it, so I tried to pull as much as the flimsy thread would let me.

I was definitely conservative and was super close to the glans, which means more pokes before it's resolved, but I'll try to be patient (not my strong suit, but better safe than sorry).

Any idea how long to wait (if any) before using a swimming pool/hot tub?

Fuck, looks painful, but with lidocaine yeah you should be fine, if you didn't experience pain that's a good sign.

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it ended up being (lidocaine 4%)

  • Did you inject it or was it topically applied?

You are a brave man, hope everything goes well. I am rooting for you, hope you can enjoy the results afterwards, but be careful though.
  • Also have you used any disinfectant before and after the needle went in?
 
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  • Did you inject it or was it topically applied?
  • Also have you used any disinfectant before and after the needle went in?
Gosh, I don't think I did anything that so many others in this thread haven't done... Certainly doesn't feel particularly brave. Watching folks on youtube get piercings seems to make it look more painful than this!
I used an antiseptic spray that had lidocaine in it, so it was both disinfecting and numbing, but I also used a Hydrogen Peroxide spray before and after for further cleansing. And I'm applying an anti-bacterial cream every few hours. Not ultra-carefully or anything, but the bare minimum lazy-me can do.
Appreciate you rooting for me (now and the next few times I have to do this to get optimal results)!
 
Gosh, I don't think I did anything that so many others in this thread haven't done... Certainly doesn't feel particularly brave. Watching folks on youtube get piercings seems to make it look more painful than this!
I used an antiseptic spray that had lidocaine in it, so it was both disinfecting and numbing, but I also used a Hydrogen Peroxide spray before and after for further cleansing. And I'm applying an anti-bacterial cream every few hours. Not ultra-carefully or anything, but the bare minimum lazy-me can do.
Appreciate you rooting for me (now and the next few times I have to do this to get optimal results)!
How has this worked out for you? Your frenulum looks particularly substantial!
 
How has this worked out for you? Your frenulum looks particularly substantial!
Not so great right now, but maybe I'm being impatient? The thread is still very much there, and it's been almost 2 weeks! I feel like I pierced really close to the surface, and I do see an opening, but should it be taking so long?
Things I might've done wrong:
- Used ordinary polyester thread. I've since gotten Stretch Magic 0.5mm to use for future use, but it won't fit through the needle!
- Not really been doing the soaking thing. I do keep numbing every few days and trying to pull them apart.

Even if this works out, it's getting quite tiring to wait this long... Almost tempted to cough up the $$ for a frenuloplasty and have it done with in 20 minutes rather than 20 weeks! Also, I was using 4% lidocaine spray, and while I wouldn't call it excessively painful, it wasn't by any means painless. And even when I numb it again to look at it, and try tightening the knot, it still hurts a bit.

Attached a photo taken with my microscopic camera, and some taken with phone camera. Any advice is much appreciated!
 
Not so great right now, but maybe I'm being impatient? The thread is still very much there, and it's been almost 2 weeks! I feel like I pierced really close to the surface, and I do see an opening, but should it be taking so long?
Things I might've done wrong:
- Used ordinary polyester thread. I've since gotten Stretch Magic 0.5mm to use for future use, but it won't fit through the needle!
- Not really been doing the soaking thing. I do keep numbing every few days and trying to pull them apart.

Even if this works out, it's getting quite tiring to wait this long... Almost tempted to cough up the $$ for a frenuloplasty and have it done with in 20 minutes rather than 20 weeks! Also, I was using 4% lidocaine spray, and while I wouldn't call it excessively painful, it wasn't by any means painless. And even when I numb it again to look at it, and try tightening the knot, it still hurts a bit.

Attached a photo taken with my microscopic camera, and some taken with phone camera. Any advice is much appreciated!
Maybe take a look at post 976 (1 April 2017) on this thread - describes how to keep retying the knot to keep it really tight for very fast results. My second tie broke through in less than five days!
 
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Maybe take a look at post 976 (1 April 2017) on this thread - describes how to keep retying the knot to keep it really tight for very fast results. My second tie broke through in less than five days!
Thanks! I read that and I can certainly try that if I use stretch magic. With the thin polyester thread I used the first time, the most I could do was grab the ends and try and tighten it further.

So this morning, I took a nail clipper and managed to just snip the original thread off. It didn't cut through, but it did manage to cut a bit of an opening (ironically from the surface inwards, rather than the way others seem to be experiencing, i.e. from point of puncture towards the surface. (Pics attached).

At this point, I'm feeling relieved to not have thread in my skin! I literally was beginning to feel like I'd have to live with that knot, because it just wasn't cutting through (2 weeks today!) And for the tiniest bit of release I've gotten (fraction of a mm), it feels like a wasted effort.
Now I could definitely do the second attempt better, i.e. using Stretch Magic, which would hopefully cut through faster (or at all), and maybe pierce deeper than the flimsy point on the surface I chose the first time. But if I look at my frenulum through a flashlight, it just seems so veiny, that I don't know where to pierce. Is it expected that there'd be a lot of thick veins above the point of penetration, and you'd be cutting through them as the frenulum released? Everything I read re: these veins being pleasure points worries me a bit.

I'm also so tempted to just cough up the $$ for a frenuloplasty and have it done in 20 minutes. I *can* afford it, I think, just feels like I could better spend that money (1000-1500 USD) on, I dunno, a vacation or shopping or something. (So basically, I'm being cheap). But you mentioned that I had substantial frenulum, so it sounds like it'd be a long process to get all the way to the bottom of it (or reasonably far enough so I don't feel an unpleasant pulling sensation while penetrating).
Option 3- I'd like to go to a tattoo/piercing parlor and have them do the piercing, and stick stretch magic through it instead of a stud or something. I don't have great pain tolerance, but it's particularly less when the pain is caused by my own hands! I've been jabbed and prodded a lot by other people for surgeries etc. and I endure it as long as I'm not doing it to myself! Is that a weird idea?

I'd really value any honest opinions (and encouragement, if that's all I need)!
 
Thanks! I can

Thanks! I read that and I can certainly try that if I use stretch magic. With the thin polyester thread I used the first time, the most I could do was grab the ends and try and tighten it further.

So this morning, I took a nail clipper and managed to just snip the original thread off. It didn't cut through, but it did manage to cut a bit of an opening (ironically from the surface inwards, rather than the way others seem to be experiencing, i.e. from point of puncture towards the surface. (Pics attached).

At this point, I'm feeling relieved to not have thread in my skin! I literally was beginning to feel like I'd have to live with that knot, because it just wasn't cutting through (2 weeks today!) And for the tiniest bit of release I've gotten (fraction of a mm), it feels like a wasted effort.
Now I could definitely do the second attempt better, i.e. using Stretch Magic, which would hopefully cut through faster (or at all), and maybe pierce deeper than the flimsy point on the surface I chose the first time. But if I look at my frenulum through a flashlight, it just seems so veiny, that I don't know where to pierce. Is it expected that there'd be a lot of thick veins above the point of penetration, and you'd be cutting through them as the frenulum released? Everything I read re: these veins being pleasure points worries me a bit.

I'm also so tempted to just cough up the $$ for a frenuloplasty and have it done in 20 minutes. I *can* afford it, I think, just feels like I could better spend that money (1000-1500 USD) on, I dunno, a vacation or shopping or something. (So basically, I'm being cheap). But you mentioned that I had substantial frenulum, so it sounds like it'd be a long process to get all the way to the bottom of it (or reasonably far enough so I don't feel an unpleasant pulling sensation while penetrating).
Option 3- I'd like to go to a tattoo/piercing parlor and have them do the piercing, and stick stretch magic through it instead of a stud or something. I don't have great pain tolerance, but it's particularly less when the pain is caused by my own hands! I've been jabbed and prodded a lot by other people for surgeries etc. and I endure it as long as I'm not doing it to myself! Is that a weird idea?

I'd really value any honest opinions (and encouragement, if that's all I need)!
Don’t lose heart, even though your first tie hasn’t given the result you hoped for. Look back at post 1518 in this thread; the second image shows the freedom I got from only three ties. The blue arrow points to a little nub of vestigial frenulum which was originally joined to my glans right up beside the meatus (peehole). It is of course your own decision whether you go further with this, but for many of us in this group the results have been amazing. And, speaking for myself, absolutely no loss of sensitivity - probably the opposite in truth.
 
Don’t lose heart, even though your first tie hasn’t given the result you hoped for. Look back at post 1518 in this thread; the second image shows the freedom I got from only three ties. The blue arrow points to a little nub of vestigial frenulum which was originally joined to my glans right up beside the meatus (peehole). It is of course your own decision whether you go further with this, but for many of us in this group the results have been amazing. And, speaking for myself, absolutely no loss of sensitivity - probably the opposite in truth.
Thank you, I guess encouragement was just what I needed! I did a second tie last night (I guess I make bolder decisions at night), and went deeper (way deeper?) I feel more encouraged using Stretch Magic this time. (Getting stretch magic through the needle was no easy task!)
More bleeding this time, but stopped pretty quick.
Hopefully I didn't over compensate this time! I keep tightening it every few hours, as you'd done!
 
Err... should I be concerned about this swelling on one side? The second image is of the other (normal) side sans swelling, for reference.
 
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