With our culture's attitudes on health care, it would be appropriate to monitor boys before puberty and encourage early prevention with conservative means. This page is an attempt at providing adults with a way of self diagnosing their anatomical problems. There is a simpler special guide on how parents could check children . This page is intended to help the enquiring adult to diagnose his own complaint. The important point about self diagnosis is that YOU understand your condition, - to make it worth a doctor discussing treatment with you in an intelligent manner, instead of simply recommending an operation, with you left clueless.
Diagnosis is sometimes only possible and is far more accurate through dialogue.
So regardless any embarrassment your doctor may have, it would be helpful for you to understand and be able to discuss a few of the typical symptoms of your condition. To a man who has never retracted his foreskin, it appears to be made from one thick layer of skin, similar to the tongue or an ear lobe. This is not the case. There is no join between the outer and inner surfaces of the foreskin, the inner and outer foreskin are one continuous layer or sheet of skin which is folded back on itself. What is meant by retracting the foreskin, is that one pulls back on the outer foreskin.