Hi everyone! So I have had balanitis for 2 months now. A GP gave me Canesten to apply a month ago and I have been using it daily but the problem is only slightly improved. Every time I finish masturbating, the foreskin will turn very red like in the picture below.
What caused the Balanitis, was it due to unprotected sex, or something else. If you want to do your penis a favour take a masturbation holiday, sometimes three weeks may help, unfortunately it can often take much longer for the correct healing to take place, you may need to abstain for 3 months or even more ...
Thank you for your helpful response!
I will try my best to abstain from masturbation/sex at the mean time. However, I feel like this will keep going on for a while, so I might need to have a swab test after the lockdown ends. Do you have any experience with swab test before and will it be useful for doctors to fully cure this thing? I have heard people complaining that balanitis wont go away even after treatment.
... have no expertise on STD's the detection and treatment Balanitis is not a useful term, it merely states the presence of particular symptoms - it states nothing of what caused it, nor how to treat it .... You can update in the near future if you cannot deal with the symptoms successfully ....