My Success story! (So simple. Smh.)

I am so damn grateful this sht has ended! FCK!

The answer to my exactly 2 years of Balanitis was to simply encourage it be moist and to STOP using any kind of soap or ointment.

[The logic I have now is that since I am uncut, my glans is meant to be a moist environment that cleans itself, something like a vagina does for itself.]

I spent 2 years doing the opposite. I started using soap every shower for the first time in my life. I would pull back my foreskin and wave it dry, pat it, whatever I had to do to make it “inhospitable to bacteria”. It turns out my dick HATED that.

I tried every solution I could find and read nearly every success post on here (many of which don’t actually seem to stay successes, and I’m very sorry and have empathy for everyone still struggling). This is the only thing that has brought resilience back to my Johnson.

I can now use it in all the usual fun ways, with or without a partner, and not hold back, and it’ll remain completely healthy and fine if I simply just rinse with plain shower or faucet water and use lotion (just CeraVe lotion). ZERO issues in a month now.

It (unsurprisingly) didn’t respond well in the first few days and then instantly it’s back how life was over two years ago. Good bacteria just had to build back up, and it needed moisture to do so!

So for me: Soap bad. Drying bad. Moisture good. Rinse with plain water, unscented free and clear lotion.

If you are uncut, I urge you to give this method your consideration (in congruence with your doctor’s counsel).

Don’t give up! ✌️