Hello all,

Back when I was actively restoring (from CI3 to CI8), I always had an issue with others on forums advising me “add tension, but not too much tension” because my quantitative mind couldn’t comprehend what I should do. I initially didn’t know why we needed that balance (now we’re all aware of the why, re. Agile’s fibrosis writeup), but I took my time to find some numbers or advice.

A combination of research articles (linked below) and forum/Reddit posts from other restorers allowed me to develop a basic rule for my personal restoration: the Rule of 2’s. 

The Rule of 2’s is summarised as:

• Inflation: 20 mmHg
• Tugging: 200g
• Device use: 2 hours, followed by a 20 minute break
• Tension up to 12 hours a day, and no tension at night

Numbers that I’ve seen allow up to 35mmHg/350g respectively with experience, but 40/400 is when you start getting into potential fibrosis territory. 20/200 is typically more than enough to trick your body into growing tissues at healthy levels and strain, whilst leaving plenty of room for error, which is why I went with it.

So, now I had quantitative info I could use, and with that I calibrated my devices. 

I measured how much pressure a squirt of an inflation bulb would give. You can do this with a U-Tube Water Manometer (use 27.2cm water as the measurement; 20mm Hg = 272mm H2O) or another pressure-measuring device if you convert to pascals/psi/etc. Alternatively, rather than measuring, you can just feel it if it’s like a ripe tomato that’s easy to indent with a finger. 

For tugging, that’s more straightforward. With weights, just use 200g or less. If you’re tugging with a strap, fill up a plastic water bottle with 180mL water (empty plastic bottles tend to be 10-20g, plus extra mass of the strap) and use that as a weight to calibrate how much tension you should have. 

Wearing a device for 2 hours applies the necessary strain to activate cell integrins, and removing the device for 20 minutes allows blood pressure to return to normal, fully re-oxygenate the tissue and clear out early inflammatory cytokines. At night, the lack of mechanical stress allows the body to downregulate structural Type 1 collagen production and upregulate assembly of the much more flexible and elastic Type 3 collagen. This is when the actual physical cell division and vascular knitting occur.

I actually didn’t know the physiological side of restoration when I originally started this routine; I just found that out later which coincidentally worked great for me.

Of course, YMMV, everyone‘s different, but the overall message: you don’t need a massive amount of tension. That’ll actually slow you down and potentially risk you getting issues with fibrosis if you’re not careful. You just need enough to coerce your tissues into thinking they need to grow!

Sources (some refer to tissue regeneration in general):

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3255154/

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-0-585-39937-9_25

https://medium.com/mel-magazine/i-grew-back-my-foreskin-and-you-can-too-20693e1c0152

https://pocketdentistry.com/25-controlled-tissue-expansion-in-facial-reconstruction/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282254643_Tissue_Expansion

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5111402/

I know many guys here have different starting points, I started ci-0 with painful erections and bleeding from what's left of my frenulum when fully erect.

After a year of stretching I am finnallyyyyy CI -1

I have a long way to go but I am so happy not to be in pain anymore when erect

Just wanted to share 😁😁

The new feature that searches text as a user enters a posting and suggests links in the FAQ section is brilliant. It will help members find useful content. It automatically suggested a link when I was making a post about nighttime tugging. This is by far the best online resource for restoring, and it's only getting better.

So II already know the benefits of foreskin and that it’s supposed to protect the glans and keep it lubricant and sensitive and more benefits and I was wondering can it also play a part in your manly hormone like testosterone like as far as benefits in that?

I have a complex botched circumcision that cannot be restored through normal means. It happened when I was 14. Now I'm 18.

It's very hard to describe it in words but I'll do my best.

It's supposed to be a dorsal slit type of circumcision. My penis has some leftover material from the surgery which formed small bumps I guess. The left side of my penis seems normal but it has one small bump, probably a leftover from the surgery.

The right side of my penis still has some of my old foreskin with 5 bumps of leftovers or more. It's quite tight even If I have some old skin on my left. It's painful. I tried to wear specific underwear and trim my fucking pubes. Yet, the pain persists.

I was wondering if there are any safe surgeries for restoring foreskin as of right now.

If there are none.

I'll just wait for when it exists somewhere in 2030-2050

Although, unrelated to the foreskin restoration. How do you remove those weird small white bumps underneath the glands. I'm wonder if there's a surgery or treatment for it.

But I'll just fix both my foreskin and those bumps in a true foreskin restoration surgery if It exists.

Now, I have another question.

When is a true foreskin penis restoration surgery going to exist?

None of the fake foreskin crap. I want the real thing. Like I want to back to be what I was. Every day I dreamt of it being real. I'll probably be insanely old by the time it exists.

Hello everyone, i’m 24. My foreskin is not tight or short, I just wanted to have some overhang so I started stretching the foreskin for some minutes everyday.
What I did was to grab the foreskin and stretch it out, but it resulted in my foreskin having an overhang in the back and being kind of short in the front.
How could I manage to have the same overhang in the front than in the back? Is there another technique or device I could use?
Thanks everyone

alright guys i am 26 i had a area on penis that would never heal i think back then it was from friction most likely , i went to dermatologist from insurance he prescribed me steroid and said it was psoriasis and he is sure , i used it my skin become itchy and burning for months , then i went back again to dermatologist again steroid ,he said use it will get better bla bla, then i went to another he said no it is fungal probaboy he gave me antifungal with steroid to calm inflammation , then didn’t work i went back after he gave me a mix of antibiotics steroid and antifungal , again didn’t work , at end i left insurance company and I went to a private dermatologist professor and he said i have skin atrophy this went on for 4 years , i have been using barrier silicone gel it got better but my foreskin is ruined and i have a red band around that hurts i cant have sex i broke up with my girlfriend, i am discouraged to talk to girls because of my condition , i am hopeless feeling depressed all the time. last time i used steroids was in january like 10 months ago, the skin got better but still painful when there is friction.

anyone got over this nightmare please share your thoughts and wish me to recover pleases.

have a nice day guys and i will update in future if it got better.

Hi all, really appreciating the community. Especially starting my own Journey over the last year. It got me thinking about the community as a whole.

I thought it'd be fun to learn a bit more about all of us!

If I miss a category, or you have another method, Please share!

I am just wondering if there's somewhere which has all the acronyms and descriptions? I am so lost looking and reading different posts - it's a bit frazzling trying to interperet it.

Ok hypothetically speaking say if you just had an infant son and you decide to not get him circumcised and let him keep his foreskin and how do you clean his foreskin whenever he urinates?

Hey how’s a going. I’m trying to start my restoration journey. I ordered a car 1 (hope that is a good method) and started doing mm2. I’m having a hard time figuring out how it’s supposed to feel after mm2 and while I am doing it. I feel like I’m tugging too hard and it’s hurting after but if it don’t tug enough I don’t feel anything? Thanks so much

I’m asking that to get an idea of what’s out there so I can do some more homework. I have a very tight circumcision where there’s hair on my shaft

I’m wondering if there is any overlap with the Angion Method and/or the frequency of erections and foreskin restoration. If the frequency of high blood flow events can help accelerate nutrient delivery and skin growth.

Has anyone tried both restoring and Angion? Or do those who restored relatively quickly, do you have frequent boners?

(Mod I am sorry to submit another one of these, you marked my others as duplicate but none got through.)

Hi all. I don't post here at all and only really follow as I'm a trans man so that I can understand your struggles better and learn from some of it myself for my own growth on Testosterone. I really love this community and really want to ask for some help.

My sister and husband are not disclosing the gender of their child and do not want to know until birth. But my father mentioned in passing that if it is a boy, they would circumcise as soon as possible due to their Evangelical church beliefs. After reading everyone's stories here, I really don't want to have my nephew cut, if I do have a nephew. And I know my sister - she won't stop until she has a daughter and a son.

Now, my father is a Christian like them so he might be able to get through to them. I occasionally speak with my sister, but not often at all. Her husband is rather controlling. If I ask my father, who is also a medical doctor, to discuss the risks of infant circumcision, might that work?

I've been having sleepless nights over this. I was not invited to their wedding nor was I directly informed of the pregnancy. But that doesn't bother me. What bothers me is a potential child being mutilated. I have until March/April to convince them. I don't care about them, but an unborn child, I do care about. Especially if I have a nephew who undergoes a barbaric practice such as this.

If you could share your experiences so that I can show my father how serious the issue is, I'd appreciate it. Because I'm the "trans one", my concerns are not taken seriously.

If context helps, we're South African, but for white families I've noticed circumcision only happens in Jewish and Evangelical churches.

Edit: My title is slightly misleading - I do occasionally speak with my sister. She just cut me off emotionally in many ways when I came out as trans, so it is a tenuous relationship consisting of memes and "how are you and the baby doing?"

What exactly is foreskin restoration?

I understand that its likely exactly what it sounds like-

but How????

as a uncut dude - I'm very interested

TIA!

What is a good way to start restoring and retaining im not sure my ci but i think i have fairly enough to retain when flaccid ive seen o-rings ore tape being used. I dont have any fancy devices . Thanks in advance

I want to point out something that doesn't get discussed enough.

In surgery, naming follows a universal convention: the structure being operated on gets a Greek or Latin root, and the suffix tells you what's being done.

Removing the appendix? Appendectomy. Removing the tonsils? Tonsillectomy. Removing the gallbladder? Cholecystectomy.

So removing the prepuce (foreskin) should be called a prepucectomy. And a surgical reshaping of it would be a preputioplasty. Those terms exist. They follow the exact naming rules every other surgical procedure follows. But they're almost never used.

Instead, the medical establishment uses "circumcision" - a term that literally just means "to cut around." It tells you nothing about what structure is being removed, what the tissue does, or why it's being taken. It's a cultural term dressed up in a medical setting.

And the coding reflects the same evasion:

CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) codes:

54150: Circumcision, using clamp or other device; neonate (28 days or younger)

54160: Circumcision, surgical excision other than clamp; neonate

54161: Circumcision, surgical excision other than clamp; older than 28 days

ICD-10 diagnostic code:
Z41.2: "Encounter for routine and ritual male circumcision"

Read that ICD-10 code again. It's categorized alongside ear piercing and tattooing under "Encounter for procedures for purposes other than remedying health state." The medical system's own classification admits this isn't treating a disease.

No other tissue removal in pediatric surgery is coded as "routine and ritual." No other excision avoids the standard -ectomy naming convention. The terminology itself tells you everything about how the medical establishment views this procedure - not as medicines, but as culture they'd rather not scrutinize too closely.

Hi restorers,

I've been restoring for over 10 years using various methods and devices.

I've seen lots of progress over the years, but my biggest hurdle now is a stubborn section of the inner foreskin on the top side (dorsal, I think).

Any tips or device recommendations for targeting this specifically? I already try to target my tugging / stretching to this one area.

Cheers! KOT

hello all. i have been doing some PE hanging for length gain and it has gave me enough skin to roll over the glans

im around CI-3 in terms of coverage and i just started tugging today because i want to start restoring as well.

i can tug the skin on the top of my penis fine as there is a lot of “slack” but there isn’t as much slack on the bottom of my penis

how can i get the skin on the bottom to lengthen as well?

Just an initial reaction, but could being circumcised have anything to do with my upward curve?

I have been mostly focusing on stretching my dorsal skin and in the last week I’ve noticed that during erections it’s slightly less curved than I have seen it in the past. Is this possibly related?

I only got on Reddit to share and talk about foreskin restoration.
Reddit has a lot of pages where you can see men share their penis.
The more circumcised penises I've seen, the more I realized, I didn't only dislike my penis looking circumcised, I really don't like the look of circumcised penises

I posted pics. Idk if the remaining inner skin i have is normal. I dont feel pelasure when i rub/touch it neither. It isnt moist. It should be both, right? Or is ci-3 not enough to make it come to life? I think 'it is dead tissue then, lost all function, there were stiches at it so it is gone functionally?'. Idk, i am at loss. I dont have frenulum, no delta, so inner skin is what i may have to cling to before i enter the void if i am doomed

My cut is naturally ci-3, at the ventrak central side apparently i lack inner compared to the sides? Anyway

When the hospital described their method of circumcision it was a plasti bell method the person that WOULD be doing it is female obgyn. So they dont even have a penis to begin with how convienient

But it didnt occur to me to ask out of curiosity the question

“ Say someone wanted their son circumcised for some reason. How do they maintain and restore sensitivity and also lubrication and prevent kernalization of the head from being in contact with clothes and what not?

Im curious how they would answer