Dried out glans? Help!!!

Please feel free to move this thread to the health section.

Short background is that 2/3 weeks ago I had to stop pe altogether due to a sore spot on the underside of my shaft right in the middle. This was proceeded by me having 3 days off work with a stomach bug. Since then my sex drive has gone from very high to almost non existent.

I get indiscriminate hairs on my penis and some have decided to burrow. I absolutely hate having these solid buboe type bumps on my penis. I’m as insecure about them as I am my size. I have a ‘one-touch’ home electrolysis kit but while I’m sore I’m keeping clear. Anyhow, I’ve been avoiding all contact with my cock save the occasional wank or very brief stretch in the shower.

Now here is where it got weird. Last night I decided to crack one out just to keep the fella active. After a couple of minutes I peered down to see my glans reflecting light like some sort of crystal. On closer inspection it had become like a dried up husk. It’s like the skin is all cracked and when I touched my glans it felt like I had a dead layer of skin over it. When I tried kegelling the head filled up like normal and it felt normal. The moment it deflated the glans shrunk (to what appeared to be smaller than usual) and felt like a scab or even sunburnt skin maybe.

Naturally I’m worried enough to consider medical attention but maybe I’m being dramatic. It could be that this is a normal pe process and like a snake I am shedding my old penis to make room for a destructive, angry anaconda cock. Maybe I’ve just been keeping it too clean and washed away all traces of smegma leaving my glans dehydrated? Any advice would be great guys as I’m rather concerned right now. I’m almost tempted to cake it in Vaseline for a few hours but worried this could exacerbate the issue.

Help!

IGB

IGB, I’ve broken your original post up from one solid block of text into more readable blocks of text. More people will read your posts if you do so in the future as well. In quoting your original post, I left that in one solid block of text as it was first posted to illustrate the difference in readability.

How long have you been doing PE?

Are you circumcised or do you have a foreskin?

Thanks for that Lampwick. I’ve been peing since April and I’m uncut. I’ve got a progress report on here somewhere.

Doing PE can toughen up the skin on your glans, especially if you grip by the glans or create ‘dry’ friction on it.
After a short break from PE, your glans will slough off the extra thickening. It can look almost like silver scales while it’s happening.

The toughening is usually keratinization. Here’s a link to one thread on it. There is another if you go to the ‘Similar Treads’ at the bottom of this page. It’s nothing to worry about.

Keratinization of the glans

Use a moisturizer. I do about once a week or once a month.

Thanks guys. I feel much better now knowing it’s not gonna drop off. Funnily enough I’m sure I read the keratinisation thread and your post before Firegoat and managed to completely forget. Unfortunately I’m still off pe with this sore spot on the underside of my shaft. Just trying to keep it clean and hoping it will go away. I think it might be an infected follicle AGAIN. I’ve got so many bumps from hairs it’s almost like an STD (have checked and it isn’t). This shit is really interfering with my progress and I can’t wait to be able to pe again.

Just bought some witch Hazel and put some on the sore areas. Anything to try and speed up the healing process!