Online appointment with Professor Bunker?

I used to have itching initially but not anymore. The glans is just red right now, with peeling if I don't moisturize it. Right now, I'm just applying coconut oil to the glans each time before I shower.

oh okay man thanks for the reply. I'd love to get a consultation with him as well. Mine has been so irritated lately. i tried some 0.1% topical steroids recently and i think i was applying way too much but hopefully it doesn't make it worse. i've tried so many im just afraid they cause further irritation at this point. Would you mind if i private message you on here?

Sure, feel free to message me, although I'm not on this forum everyday so may take a couple of days to get back to you.

Thanks for the information! Yes, I read the post from someone who had a phone consultation with Dr. Bunker and was diagnosed with lichen schleosus.

I'm including a picture of my glans. I've been applying Muciprocin the past few days and it looks like it's getting better.

My family doctor indicated that the next step is for me to get a biopsy done.

Thanks for the photo. My pattern is a bit different from yours and I have redness around the urethra opening as well. Also mine is very faintly red when flaccid, but becomes much more inflamed and dry with erections. Muciprocin is an antibiotic, so will try that as well if it's helping you. Keep up updated! Thanks!

hey man sorry youre dealing with this. My issue looks and sounds very similar. Even looking and feeling much worse with increased blood flow and the splotchy red rash. sorry for including a pic but its hard to explain without it. thats at its worst if i get hard or anything.

I've been on Muciprocin for about a week now, and I would say it's had the most impact so far. My glans is starting to feel more "normal" now without the peeling. There is still some redness to it, but that may be a question of just the skin on the glans healing (?). Right now, I'm doing Muciprocin three times per day, and putting coconut oil on the glans each time before I shower (twice daily).

I think a picture is the best way to describe the symptoms rather than verbally. I attached a photo of mine as well just at the start of an erection. Both of ours look very similar in my opinion, but yours seems to have spread more around the glans. But we both have the redness at the urethra tip as well.

Mine becomes dry just from attaining an erection, even if I don't do any kind of physical stimulation (masterbation, sex, etc.) I assume it's because the skin is already damaged, and then all the extra blood during the erection stretches the skin even further causing more damage. I think the first step to healing is abstaining from even getting erections and keeping the penis flaccid for as long of a period of time as possible.

Not sure about your circumcision status, but I have partial circumcision (where only the tip is circumcised) so I'm gonna try to keep the rest of the foreskin rolled back. Avoid tight underwear and go without underwear and pants at home as much as possible as well to see if that helps.

Additionally I'm going to try Muciprocin ointment as artie73794 suggested and it seems to be working for him. So far I've tried lotriderm, clotrimazole, hydrocortisone creams, as well as oral antibiotics.

If the above won't work, will need to start from square one again and repeat treatment for each one more thoroughly starting with fungal and bacterial, to autoimmune treatments.

Would be interesting if all of us with similar symptoms just had a resistive strain of fungus or bacteria that could just be growing on the skin of the glans and possibly somewhere along the urinary path. Have any of your doctors suggested a Cystoscopy?

Going to start mupirocin 2% today and will update in a couple days.

hey man thanks for the info. mine is the same even the slightest erection makes it look worse and its pretty bad just when flaccid now. its been more red and irritated since i used some topical steroids. i didn't rub it in, but i think i applied way too much a couple times and I'm hoping it at least goes back to normal.. seems every ointment or cream always aggravates it.

ive actually had a cystoscopy (if thats where they go through the urethra). They found nothing. Had a glans biopsy and it was nonspecific dermatitis. Said no fungus or anything found, not by pathology at least. I'm totally uncircumcised but i've been considering the procedure on the off chance that its balanitis or something but i dont know that it would help dermatitis. And if i have irritant dermatitis (eczema) then i dont know whats causing it. I come in contact with barely anything. Only thing i ever apply is some vaseline to keep urine off because it burns so bad.

this is how red its been since i used the steroids /:

Hmm, do you know if they found inflammation inside the urethra walls? Because if there's inflammation inside, circumcision probably wouldn't help. Also, don't forget that all these steroid creams damage and thin the skin in long term use, which could ironically lead to being the source of erythema/irritation. Maybe take a break from all medical creams and just use vaseline. Also, try wearing loose, soft underwear that you wash in hot/boiling water without any detergent. Same with actual washing of the glans; use warm water and air dry.

Another reason that comes to mind is a compromised immune system. So I think checking hormones for testosterone levels for example could yield some answers. Additionally, most people with similar issues complete an HIV test when the symptoms first present. However, HIV antibodies are often not detected in the blood until several months after. So probably a good idea to repeat the test again.

Just pulling at straws here with these suggestions though, since you've seen specialist physicians with decades of experience on these issues, so they probably know what they are doing.