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Balanitis?

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ricardo47335
ricardo47335

I woke up in the middle of the night with an itchy feeling and saw that it may be this. Not sure if it's some sort of fungus or something else

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  • Wee_Dugie
    Wee_Dugie ricardo47335

    Posted

    Would you say that you look after your personal hygiene, or sometimes not?

    Have you recently had unprotected sex?

    What it is looking more like to me is a skin problem developing .....

    • ricardo47335
      ricardo47335 Wee_Dugie

      Posted

      I do take care of my genitals heavily, I don't use my foreskin when I go urinate. No I haven't. I've had some sort of itch here for a while. I wanna say because of how dried out it gets from not being used when I go to the restroom and because I keep

      pulling it back to check on myself. Not sure to he honest. I threw some clotrimazole on it and it felt better afterwards and didn't come back as harsh or at all probably.

    • Wee_Dugie
      Wee_Dugie ricardo47335

      Posted

      If you can closely monitor what goes on: when does it look worse, and what may have caused that to happen?

      So this could be literally anything that comes into contact with the distressed skin: from soap and shower gel and other body wash you may use in the shower.

      Then there are things like creams used as moisturiser generally on your penis, lubes for masturbation and so on.

      Unfortunately, I think this looks like a skin condition - the likely circumstances you will get is that the level of symptoms will vary from time to time, but I thing eventually you will need to see a Dermatologist .....

    • ricardo47335
      ricardo47335 Wee_Dugie

      Posted

      It hasn't worsen or come back thankfully, what kind of skin condition are you talking about?

    • Wee_Dugie
      Wee_Dugie ricardo47335

      Posted

      I would not recommend applying anything to this as simply these can become part of the problem and certainly cause your symptoms to return

      You can update your Forum Post if the symptoms return or worsen ..

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