Terrible Burning in tip of eurethra

I too am living in N-9 hell right now, and it was my own stupid fault. Through one of the most stupid acts ever (I'll not go into details) I have N-9 down the FULL LENGTH of my urethra, right down to the bladder. The pain, at its worst, meant I could not touch my manhood or move it in any way without excruciating pain and urination was simply impossible.

Long story short: I've had some improvement today by flushing my urethra with OLIVE OIL rather than water. Water was just too painful, olive oil seemed to help a lot more than the water did. I'm still in agony, like an 8 or 9 on the pain scale, but it's better than where I was yesterday.

Long story:

I tried several times to pee yesterday and there was just no way it was going to happen: The instant a drop of urine left the bladder the whole world vanished and all that was left was the screaming burning agony in my manhood. Pain level out of 10? About a 20. I'm not kidding, I have a fairly high pain threshold but this is worse than any torture. And that tiny, TINY drop of urine would then CRAWL its way down my urethra starting new fireballs of excruciating pain all the way down to the tip. I managed to pass ONE small drop of urine yesterday, and I was SOAKED with sweat from the pain by the time it was in the toilet. And this was after taking 2 Ibuprofen and 2 Paracetamols (Tylenol to the Americans on here). Therefore I've not been able to follow the "drink more" advice on here, as there's no way I'd be able to pass whatever I'd drunk. I've had to go the other way and simply risk dehydration, like you do.

I figured I'd probably be a bit better after some sleep. I was wrong. This morning was just as bad.

In fact the urethral opening ("pee hole" as most people know it) was very swolen. I decided I'd try the flush-it-with-water trick that's so popular on here. Nope, that hurt just as bad as peeing (and it seems I'm not the only one to say that either). And since AZO etc aren't available in the UK (seriously, WHY?! Are we gluttons for punishment or what?!) I needed another plan.

Keep in mind here that what we're all suffering from after getting N-9 down there is Urethral Syndrome (which is basically Urethritis without infection). Apart from those of you who've jumped on here to talk about oozing pus etc. You guys have actual Urethritis - seriously, go see a doctor.

I had a good think about it and did some research into what exactly Nonoxynol-9 actually is: It's a non-ionic surfactant. From Wikipedia: "Nonoxynol-9 is sometimes included in shaving creams for its properties as a nonionic surfactant; it helps break down skin oils that normally protect hair from moisture".

SHAVING CREAM?! And they think this stuff's good for genitals too?! Right, right, breathe, deep breath now, ... okay... But that sentence "helps break down skin oils" caught my attention. A little more research and it turns out N-9 is pretty much just a detergent. I'm slightly over-simplifying to make this easier to understand, you can do your own research if you want to learn more.

As an aside, I'd be fairly willing to bet that if N-9 was introduced into the urethras of 1,000 people, then 1,000 people would be in excruciating pain when peeing afterwards. Just the same as if you were to introduce soap into 1,000 urethras. I don't buy this "some people are allergic" rhetoric.

Now I'm sure we've all felt the pain of soap getting into our urethra while washing at one time or another, and you've gotta admit this is kind of a similar pain - just more intense.

So what do soaps do? They break down oil and "emulsify" it, ie make it mix with water. This allows us to lift oil, fat and grease off plates when we're washing up, mix them into the washing water, and then wash that water down the sink. It's also why soap dries your skin: It strips naturally occuring oils from your skin. I figured if my urethra couldn't stand water then maybe it'd accept some oil to restore some of the oils stripped by the N-9.

Initially I considered baby oil (just because I had some lying around) but, after some research, I found a paper written by an Indian doctor that discussed a case he'd come across of a boy injecting himself intraurethrally with baby oil. The oil had caused urethral syndrome so that was a definite no-go. So then I looked into olive oil, since it's a natural and gentle oil, and discoverd that some people do use olive oil as a sex lube. Worst I'd read was that it could cause a "very slight stinging sensation", which sounded like heaven compared to where I was.

I loaded up a syringe I happened to have handy with some olive oil (extra virgin of course, nothing but the best in this house) and pushed it into the end of my urethral opening. Which hurt, but was just about tolerable. I then slowly pushed the plunger down to start gently deploying the olive oil into my urethra. Waddayaknow? It hurt, but nowhere near as much as water. I got some more oil and repeated until I could get the oil all the way down the urethra. The pain, while still there, was subsiding noticeably. I could now touch myself without screaming in pain.

After I'd irrigated the whole of the penis I noticed that the swelling of the urethral opening had subsided considerably. I decided to follow the advice of another post on here and tried masturbating too, to try and flush out the urethra as much as possible. Pre-seminal fluid is designed, in part, to neutralise acid, so I figured it was worth a go. Ejaculation still hurt like hell, but prior to the olive oil treatment masturbation would not even have been possible due to pain.

After all of this I tried to pass urine again. I managed a very short squirt before the pain forced me to stop which was a MASSIVE improvement over yesterday/this morning (1 tiny drop versus 1 squirt). I believe the effects of the N-9 have been pretty much eliminated by the olive oil and pre-ejaculate, and that what remains now is abrasion to the urethra close to the head of the penis (did I mention that the way the N-9 got in there was really, REALLY stupid?) as there was no pain from the urine leaving the bladder, it was only when it was half way down the urethra that the pain started. Additionally all of the swelling related to the N-9 appears to have gone.

It's now been over 24 hours and pain is still at about an 8 or 9 when urinating, if I can get down to 6 or 7 then I might be able to empty my bladder, which would be nice (as I've not peed for about 36 hours straight now, and I've not had a drink for over 24 hours either - which is starting to border on the dangerous). I'm monitoring myself for dehydration and, so far, I'm fairly okay, but I will have to start drinking soon regardless of the pain it will undoubtedly cause at the other end.

Moral of the story: Keep clear of Nonoxynol-9. Especially avoid doing stupid things that will get N-9 all the way down your urethra. Also don't do stupid things that will cause abrasion of the urethra. In fact, just don't do stupid things.

Just a quick update. I was wrong in thinking I'd expunged the N9 from my urethra with the oil. A few hours after this post I had the inflammation again and pain was back up to about a 10 when trying to pee. I'm not sure what to attribute the reduction in inflammation to. That said there was a marked improvement after the oil, and since I couldn't flush my urethra with water I still stand by my decision to use the oil.

~30 hours in I took my first piss since the whole debacle started. I'd taken 2 Ibuprofen and 2 Paracetamol ("Tylenol" to the Americans) 2 hours beforehand (ie the maximum dose) and then simply stuffed my fist into my mouth and went for it as best I could manage. Pain was around 8-9 on the pain scale. After a little while though the endorphins kick in and the pain becomes more tolerable, you have to just keep going until it's done. As I said yesterday, I'd been avoiding fluids so my urine was a fairly deep orange colour, which wouldn't have helped the pain much. After that I started drinking fluids, although not as much as I perhaps should...

~48 hours in. (ie just now) I took my second piss. Again I made sure to have had 2 Ibuprofen and 2 Paracetamol/"Tylenol" beforehand and, again, stuffed my fist in my mouth. Pain was about an 8, which is very much unpleasant but within my tolerable levels (I have a high pain threshold). This urine however was BROWN from dehydration (which is bad m'kay). But now I know I can pee without passing out I'm starting a programme of rehydration which should start bringing my recovery back in line with everyone else on here.

And I'll say it again - keep N9 out of your urethra. Having it at the tip hurts, having it all the way down to the bladder is very bad. Allowing prolonged exposure (as I did, such an id**t) is even worse.

Another update, this time 6 days on.

Maybe the olive oil wasn't such a good idea after all. I now have a full blown bladder infection (peeing blood, voiding burns and then hurts like hell when empty for about a minute or two) as well as actual acute urethritis complete with discharge, and suspected prostatitis (all self-diagnosed). I'm off to the doctors tomorrow to try and get antibiotics, which is like trying to get blood from a stone in the UK but I'll try nevertheless.

Drink a lot of water. This is most effective. I'm not sure how much pouring water down the urethra helps because I don't think it travels much down the shaft. Tons of water and prayer are the only things effective. Is there a way we can all collectively sue Trojan?

So as a new member of the spermicide attack support group, I can say the bottle of water flushing method worked great. Thanks you for the help.

For anyone that finds this in the future, I just finished going through this terrible ordeal, and the only thing that helped keep my sanity was AZO. You can find it in any drug store. Pain wise for 1.5 days I was at a 10 and within one cycle of AZO I was at a 1. Seriously, buy it. It won't cure it but it will make your pain way more manageable

My wife used VCF film and I had the same reaction. So painful it brought me to tears.

Anyone using SKYN condoms should be aware that they also use Nonoxynol-9.

This just happened to me. Was having sex and midway through felt a warm sensation and pain on my penis head, stopped for a second because I thought the condom broke but it was probably just my penis getting pissed at me I somehow let spermicide in its urethra. Got up to piss and had the mentioned sideways razor blade pain, had to bite down on a pair of my sweatpants that were in the bathroom. I'm going to drink a lot of water and hope the pain subsides, may even head to the lady isle and get some AZO. Looks like it's time for a new condom brand.

exact same problem my man!!! i guess we better man the f**k up huh?

My boyfriend and I used VCF and right after(within minutes) of having sex he noticed sourness on the tip of his penis and burning. After him trying to pee a few times throughout the day hoping the pain would go away naturally on its own we then googled VCF side effects that's when we came across this amazing post!!! So he began drinking water(lots of water) We took a water bottle and stood in the shower and put the tip of his penis in the rim of the water bottle(so it creates a suction type flushing) and squeezed the water in the uretha hole and also open the uretha wide open(make sure it's really open) let the water from the shower directly enter into the whole, so that it flushes it out. It will hurt like hell but you have to keep doing it. We did it for about 15 minutes. The next morning he got up to pee and the burning was gone! Good luck!

This just happened to me literally it burned while we had intercourse then i was like f**k this and pulled out and went to try and pee and it burned when the pee first came out but not too much after that... Hopefully it doesn't burn next time I pee! Using the blue Trojan spermicidal condoms

Thank you. Thank you so much for recommending the squirt bottle. When the cold water hit, it felt like heaven. Thank you so much it worked. You are a saint.

so i had this pain 2 months ago .. and it lasted for almost 1 week ... and today i bought em again and use em .. and now i think im gonna feel that pain again .. wtf did u just do to my self

Hello everybody this just happened and holy sh*t, more pain then I've ever felt. I found a great relief sitting in a very hot tub and just letting it out. I peed a little and stopped did that about 4 time after that it didn't hurt. It's been about 20 minutes and I can honestly say I would be happy not to pee again. Anyways I went to grab azos just in case. Thought I'd let ya know guys good luck