This is a summary for new readers.About 5 years ago, I developed adult onset phimosis. It started really slowly and took about 3 years to reach the stage you see in the picture on the left.
Characterised by a white, hardened ring on the upper portion of the foreskin, this form of phimosis has no known cause. I'm not sure it is BXO and since there is no inflammation of the head, its not balanitis.
Nevertheless, it is phimosis and it had gotten to the point where I could no longer have sex without pain and bleeding. I read up about it and immediately decided not to see a doctor, considering I knew they would either prescribe steroidal creams or circumcise.
So I tried wrapping my penis in plastic wrap every night, after slopping manuka honey on.
Actually, besides the hard, constricting ring on my foreskin, I had also developed a small patch of whitish bumps on my glans. These disappeared after two nights of honey treatment. This convinced me to keep up with the honey wraps, because I didn't notice much progress on the foreskin at first.
I kept it up for months, and did receive enough improvement to be able to have sex again, without pain.
That's where I still am now. I haven't been able to completely get rid of the white ring, but it doesn't cause me any problems.
I'm trying tea tree oil now (manuka honey comes from tea trees), hoping that maybe that is where the active ingredient is more concentrated, but it stings incredibly. If the tea tree oil does completely cure the white ring, I will post about that in the future.
