My husband looks uncircumcised (again)
Is another circumcision appropriate?
When we were married he appeared to be circumcised and has put on a lot of weight, which he attributes to my cooking and I attribute to the refrigerator door being unlocked. Anyway, is there any connection? 55 pounds overweight.
Is another circumcision appropriate?
Mattie
Good morning Mattie,
More for his heart than his penis, he needs to lose that weight, which is on his heart’s work list. To pump blood into 55 pounds of unwanted wanted fat with each heart stroke, in addition to the heart’s normal responsibilities.
As men put on weight (women too) and they stand, the weight mass pulls abdominal and sometimes pubic skin downwards. In men this may create an uncircumcised look, and men who has been fastidious with hygiene, frankly don’t like the extra folds.
As a urologist before agreeing to re-do the patient I have to be sure that when the penis is erect (approximated by stretched penile length), that there will be sufficient skin to cover. Also he’ll probably need a letter of medical clearance with reference to a recent EKG.
Sad to say, but a lot of my work is revisions, often because the circumcision is “too loose.” This situation falls in the same general category.
Three meals a day for this nice man, and do lock that door.
Harold M. Reed, M.D.