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by __blockcipher__ 2163 days ago
You might already be aware, but it is possible to reclaim most of what was lost via the principle of tissue expansion. It’s called foreskin restoration and allows you to regrow basically everything except the frenulum/ridged band.

It’s time-consuming and takes awhile to learn how to tug properly, and in a certain sense can be psychologically painful to go through, but the results I’ve personally seen so far have been very encouraging.

Sorry again to hear what happened to you.

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Off topic, but I have always felt like something was taken from me re: my circumsion as a child.

Do you have any resources or guides you recommend on restoration? I've looked in to manual tugging and some of the stretching devices. The devices don't seem practical to wear around discreetly on a day to day basis, and I haven't gotten manual technique to show results yet.

I haven’t tried devices. I mainly do MM3 (andre’s method) and MM2. It took me quite some time to learn how to tug effectively.

Results are very slow and I started from a very tight cut. I’m still not even at a “loose cut” level so I have quite a bit left to go.

Not sure if you’ve heard of it, but red light therapy makes a big difference in the rate of tissue expansion.

http://www.jmbe.org.tw/files/1641/public/1641-4366-1-PB.pdf

I think adding RLT to manual methods will drastically improve your results. Just a couple sessions of fairly high intensity RLT a day does wonders.

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TL;DR: like you I’m still figuring things out. But I’m pretty encouraged overall.