Weird Irritation of the Urethra

Could you please share lill bit detail about that lady

Florida Man.
Been a while, here's the scoop....
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Stop everything, took Herp Select Test in December, only way to really be sure is to wait at least 6 months for antibodies to show up, so I waited 10 months since symptoms appeared, came back negative, also added a syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia test in there for good measures, all negative. Went back to Primary Doctors again, after all of this the only possible thing it can be is my prostate. It must have gotten slightly inflamed, it's hitting a nerve or causing some other nonsense. I'm finding out that It's not that totally uncommon for a prostate issue to cause this pain / sensation at the end of the penis. The Prostate is not infected but must be slightly inflamed. I do have BPH and my PSA is good, a 1. But sometimes that inflammation can take time to subside It does feel a whole lot better than it did.

Here is what has helped. Gentle Masturbation, once in morning, once at night, every other day and taking a hot sitz bath 2 - 3 times a week. Have also started drinking unsweetened cranberry juice to raise the acidity level in urine. It's working, hope this helps someone in similar situation.

Weird, but as soon as I masturbate, it feels so much better, it must be pressing on something. Primary and Urologist do not want to put me back on antibiotics since they do not seem to be effective. I've been on it all, from Cipro on up, no real relief. The masturbation seems to be the only thing that is helping. They are taking a wait and see to see if it calms down...

Hey man, thank you for keeping us informed.

As for me, my situation is slowly getting better. I came to the conclusion that my problem is caused by slow dribbling of urine after peeing that irritate the urethra and the meaturs. I am applying some mild cortisone creme and taking tirazosin for relaxing the bladder. This takes long time to have any effect, but it seems to slowly work. In the meantime, I am considering some obstruction, so I have an MRI in the future.

Did the zithromax work

What was your result what happened

You got to Stop Wanking!

hi, i have similar symptoms which have improved, gone away then slightly come back. all follows an encounter with a sex worker (protected oral and a (rough) hand job resulting in a lot of guilt on my part). couple of days later i started noticing something 'wasnt right downstairs', took a look and the meatus 'lips' looked red and puffy with an itchy sensation. left it alone for a few days then checked again when it started to really get to me. this time i parted the lips and took a look and discovered that there was an abrasion inside the lips at the back running up the side. i thought the HJ was rough (im uncircumsised) but didnt say anything (only lube used was baby oil). Naturally i freaked out a bit, went to a GUM clinic who took a look and they confirmed it was an abrasion, they told me to leave it alone for a couple of weeks and keep it clean (which in my terror i forgot to do!). they took a swab for herpes and a urine test for G & C which came back clean. but 1 week later its now so painful i nearly throw up, coupled with the stress i go to my local doc who confirms its an abrasion and then reminds me to keep it clean for a week or two with small, salty (rock salt) water twice a day, then make sure its dry. (cant emphasis the last bit enough). within 24 hours the pain has gone, my penis is looking a lot better, the redness has gone down. 48 hours later the uncomfortable feeling has practically vanished. that lasted a week, until 3 days ago when it started 'grumbling' again but no where near as bad. the abrasion has healed up and im keeping it clean but with just warm water now, i think the salt made be drying it too much. My doc also told me that there are a lot of nerve endings in the meatus which are easily influenced by whats going on in your head, so sensations which should register as a '2' get magnified up to a '7'. On the off chance it needs some moisture now im applying a little bit of vaseline once a day after washing it. and thats it, but its certainly better than it was!

i should also mention i had something like this years ago which cleared up by itself. that was down to my developing a testicular cyst (that really freaked me out as my first thought was the big C) that felt like i had been kicked in the balls every 30 seconds. the pain caused the nerve endings to fire up all over the place resulting in odd prickling in the meatus, (on the off chance i got tested, std checks negative again so regular antibiotics sorted it in 24 hours). theres also the chance that an irritated prostate can cause this (probably too much info but i did engage in doing myself with a dildo the day before) which was the first time in 6 months. my advice is your not going to find some magic explanation online or from doctor Google, if you havent already, get to your doc, get checked and move forwards from there. Avoid loads of antibiotics if you can, these can upset the delicate balance in the nerves downstairs and actually make things appear worse (the treatment for G actually states this on its information slip by disrupting nerve endings). Hang in there and you will get better, although it feels like it (were all very protective of our little chap downstairs) this is not the end and you all will get through this. All the best!

and something else to mention, dont keep checking it to see if its ok! I made the mistake of taking a 'quick look' and put the healing process back a few days.

ok here we are 21 days later. The original injury has healed up, however I've still got something going on 'down there' but its not as bad as 21 days ago. I started keeping a log (hourly) to try and track any changes that occurred in my daily routine to see if something sets it off. So far thats drawn a bit of a blank but what it has shown is that its slowly improving. Apart from a couple of 'spikes' its generally been what I call 'grumbling'. even though I've been to the doc's 3 more times for advice \ checks. The first two couldn't see anything and told me it was in my head (thanks a lot but it isn't), the last one actually listened and although he couldn't pluck a cause out of the air did offer me some hope. His best guess is that there is some minor damage inside affecting a nerve that decides its going to flare up every now and then. As for a heal time he couldn't say, could be week or months (hopefully not years). I'm learning to live with it (have accepted that life doesn't have to be perfect) and am taking paracetamol \ ibuprofen if it kicks off again. One way I'm looking at it is that its my penises equivalent of a headache. You dont worry about a brain tumor if you have a migrane so if all the nasty stuff has been eliminated then why worry about this? One day you'll wake up, not think about it and next thing you know it will be gone.

All the best.

Same thing in the NE area you still around? What ended up happening?

Florida Man:
Don't think I forgot everyone...
Urologist put me back on Mupirocin, but not the cream. this time he gave me the ointment.
There seems to be a difference.
- Dosage: 2x daily, 1 morning and 1 evening for 14 days
- Nothing for 1 weeks
- Then put on 1x per day in evening for 14 days
It's actually much better, sometimes I don't even notice it at all.
I still GENTLY masturbate at least 5x per week, feels normal after that.
The next day it may or may not be ever so slightly sore.
- Doctor(s) still recommend wait and see since they cannot find anything wrong.
Overall, doing MUCH better.

I may try doing absolutely nothing for 1 month and then see where that gets me.
No pills, No ointments, No creams, No masturbation, nothing for 1 month and see what happens.

I believe this is an answer we just have tp experiment a little, do things that seem opposite and see what happens.

I will let all know what the outcome around middle or end of July.

Thanks

Florida, I am actively following your update. I just bought the mupirocin ointment after reading that it helped you, and I am going to try it now. Let us know your progress. I am really happy you are doing better :)

Hello guys, I want to share my story. I have been reading this and other similar topics on the internet and they have been a great help for me. I rarely posted. When I did, my nickname was vaaal or vaaal88.
I have had this problem since April 2016, so one year and a half ago. I am happy to say that now I am much better, but let me go in order. If you just want to know what helped, go at the end of this post.
At that time I was having a “colorful” sexual life, with different sexual partner one after another. The encouters were protected, but the oral was not. Also, *one* encounter was not protected at all (stupid, I know). However, please pay attention to this: I am not sure any of these encounter caused this. It may just be random. I believe that inferring from time series is very dangerous, as we may be biased in believing that some cause effect mechanism exists when there is not.
Anyway, this is my story. I am around 30yo and I live in the UK. My symptoms started on the 4th of April 2016. Please notice that since one year prior to that, I had post voiding dribbling of urine. On the 4th of April 2016 I went in the bathroom to pee. This has always been a small nuisance, not cause by prostate issue (I was said), and I just learnt to live with it. That day after peeing I felt an annoying tingling and some (classic) dribbling. I felt like there was something still in my urethra that I couldnt’ get out. I masturbated, but this didn’t help and caused more dribbling and irritation. That’s how my nightmare started. For the next 6 months I kept having these syntomps: irritation, tingling, burning on the glans. These syntomps were particularly stronger after having urinated, but where mostly there ALL DAY LONG.
Life was extremely difficult and, like you, I had suicidal thoughts. My glans was irritated all the time, I ALWAYS felt like there was something inside the urethral tube. Obviously I started looking on the internet for reasons to this problem and, unwillingly, I became and expert of urinary-related issues. I think this is shared amongst all of us long-time sufferer.
Fortunately, I also kept a diary since the very beginning of this problem, so that I know exactly what I did, what I tried, and how I felt at each point. Keep a diary has been extremely important as I could track how good I was doing. I realize that when people feel bad, they overestimated how bad they have been in the past. Reading a diary and realizing that just couple of days earlier you were better (and thus you most likely are going to be better again soon) is a big, big help.

Anyway. The first things I did was to get tested for sexual disease. I was always clean to everything. Nevertheless, I was prescribed several antibiotics. At the beginning I tried doxycycline which seemed to work, but after a week the symptoms came back. After that, the next antibiotics had less and less effect, and at a certain point they didn’t work at all. I tried many antibiotics. I also tried some antifungal medication and some other general urinary medicine. This is a list of the stuff I tried during the first 9months. None of these worked.
ANTIBIOTICS
Doxy (2 a day) (started 20 May, stopped 12 June, it only worked for a while)
Azithromycin (1g 5 May, 1.5g - 14,15,16 June)
Moxifloxacin (16 - 28June, 400 mg, 1 a day for the first 6 days, then 16h regimen, from 25 started the normal regimen of 1 a day, until 28 June) total 2 weeks
Claritromicina+Trobamicina (6-12 July)
Minociclina (24 July - 4 August)
Ciprofloxacine (3 october - 1 november)
Erythomycine (31 November-17Novembre)

CREAMS (IRRITATION)
Cortopin (hydrocortison 1% twice a day, 4/11 until 18/11)
Daktarim hydrocort 1%+miconazole 2% from 18 to 24/11
miconazole 2%from 25/11
Mupirocin (ointment)
Cardiospermum Florasone Cream, 1 oz cream
OTHER
Metronidazole (23 June, 1 a day, 25 June took 5 pills (2g) and that’s it)
D-mannose (from 1 to 12 May, stopped)
Tamsulsin (1 a day) (started 9 June) (stopped 13 June)
Omega 3 (1 a day) (started 10 June) (stopped 13 June)
Uva Ursi
Mycozil
Vitamin B
Diflucan 1pill taken on the 18 on november and 2 more times in the past
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I tested (multiple times) at the sexual clinic. I also tested privately for other stds, by using an private service you can find online which tested for the following:
Chlamydia
Gonorrhoea
Trichomonas
Gardnerella
Mycoplasma
Ureaplasma

Herpes Simplex
Herpes Simplex II
HIV
Syphilis
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis C
I was negative to all of this. I did (not in the UK but in my native country) urine and semen culture. One time from the semen culture it resulted that I had some mycoplasma. The lab did an antibiogram on the culture (that is, checking what antibiotics is it sensitive to) and it resulted mycocycline, together with doxycicline (which I had taken already). When I repeated the same culture few days later, the mycoplasma didn’t appear anymore. I did the antibiotics cure anyway but, as you can imagine, it didn’t work.

After around 6 months, however, I started feeling better. The first 6 months were just horrible, horrible, horrible. Then, it was less horrible, and some days I felt that I may actually survive this. During the first 6 months my average of pain/discomfort was 8. After that, for the next 3 month or so, it was 6 ½. This is still a lot and I still thought I couldnt’ leave with that. However, slowly improving gave me hope. Why was I improving though? No idea.
BTW what did the doctor say? Let me say that I have nothing but bad words for the UK health care system. It is, indeed, utter sh*t. Not only is swamped in burocracy, but the doctors are just not prepared for dealing with anything but the most stupid disease. In my case, they were of no help. Of course some urologist diagnosed prostatitis, but as you may know this is just the name that they use when they don’t know hwat the heck is going on. In my case, my prostate didn’t look swollen.
After some months and some other failed attempt I did another trip in my native country. Here, thanks to the cheaper healthcare system, I did testicular scan (it resulted I have a varicocele, which I don’t think is related to all of this), prostate scan, bladder scan, retograde cystography. All these test returned normal results.
At this point, with my pain diminishing, I actually realized that all of this was connected with URINATION. This was difficult to realize during the first time, since I was in pain most of the time. But now it was clear that the pain was caused by urinating. Please let me be clear: I wouldn’t have trouble urinating, but I would have pain after having done it (irritation, tingling, dribble of urine) that lasted for hours. My glans always looked normal, a part from a little reddness around the phrenulum.
At this point I started to go for the dermatological cause. I went to a dermatologist and to an urologist and I think that’s the point where I really improved. Ironically, none of these two good doctors were in the UK, where it seems that there is NO good doctor at all, good Lord.
Briefly, (and summarizing what the 2 doctors said), the dribbling of urine that I had since 1 year priori the onset of my problem, may have cause a general irritation of the tube. This would explain why I felt mostly irritated after urination. The urine or the irritation generated a dermatological condition of the glans that would cause tingling etc.
Now, I am not sure that this is actually a correct diagnosis. After I pee I also feel some weird (but difficult to describe) feelign in my scrotum. How does this match with the diagnosis? No idea.
The urologist prescribed my terazosin. This must be taken for a couple of months to have effect, but it basically diminished the dribbling. And, incredibly, it worked!! Do not get your hopes up: this was not a COMPLETE solution. I still had (and have) some dribbling, but it really helps. With the improvement of the dribbling, the tinglint and irritation also went away.
I am still taking terazosin one a day (doesn’t have any controindication) and I probably will have to all my life.
Another thing that really helped was the steroid cream. I really suggest you try this, but DO NOT EXAGGERATE. At the beginning when I tried it the effect was INCREDIBLE, and I thought I was completely cured. However, I had an horrible reaction to it: I was putting it everyday more than once a day. At some point I noticed my penis become more red and somehow wrinkly. One day after masturbation, when it went soft again, I noticed that my pain was all wrinkly, and the skin became SUPER DRY, like it seemed like paper. This was super horrible, I got terribly scared and I went to ER. Anyway with couple of days this went away, but lesson learn: do not abuse the steroid cream. But I have another solution for you: the dermatologist suggested to use the extract from the cardiospermum plant. You can find it in the florasone cream (they sell it through amazon, I think the vendor is in the states). This is similar to steroid but withouth the controindication. I used it very happily, and this also contributed to improving my symptoms.

So, slowly but steadely, I improved and improved. The Terazosin, together with several creams, contributed to this the most. I also started a routine to keep the glans clean. After peeing I wash it throuhgly. Generally I will still have some dribbling. If I do, I go back to the bathroom and wash it again. I do this even when I am at work. If I don’t do this, the irritation starts. If I do this, the irritation is still there, but is very manageable and quickly disappear. This means that everytime that I have to go in the bathroom, I actually have to go twice one after another ( I cannot just wait in the bathroom, as the dribbling is caused by the movement, and the irritation starts only when I move, so when I go from the bathroom back to my desk).
I can happily say that my life is now completely liveable. I am not in the state when I am scaringly looking for solution on the internet. I think that even if I have to leave with this all my life, I would still be happy. Btw since now I am also quite fine, I am rarely putting any cream there anymore.
Nowadays my condition does not limit me anymore. Before I had a complete social withdrawal, for obvious reason. Today I only have to be careful to plan my “urination” time wisely (as I need to be able to wash it and probably to go back to the bathroom twice).

Even this last part is now improving. Recently I have been considering the possibility that my urine may be infected, and thus causing the irritation. Of course, I have considered this in the past already, that’s why I took the antifungal and antibiotics. Now I am trying something different: cut the sugar. If it’s a candida infection, it may be candida glabrata, a resistant type of fungus. I am not sure if this will get rid of the irritation completely, but I will let you know. The good thing is that I am trying this kinda of “idly”: if it works, great! If it doesn’t… whatever! My life is still great now.

SUMMARY: I believe that my urine may have cause irritation on the glans/phernulum. I take terazosin to decrease the dribbling. This works but it takes a couple of months to work. To help the irritation, what worked was steroid cream and cardiospermum cream (e.g.you can get florasone from amazon, but I know that some country have other version as well. I am in UK and I could only find the florasone one). Also, and equally important: wash thoroughly after peeing, and also after the dribbling. Keep it clean.

If I realize that reducing sugar results in a big improvement,I will be back updating you guys.

Finally, I want to say to all the sufferers out there: hold on guys. I know what you are goign through. Is terrible, and it makes you feel like your life is going to end. My advice is: just hold on. THis is most likely going to go away. Keep trying different stuff, and think rationally about what it could be. KEEP A DIARY. Try different solution. Think scientifically about what you could have, how you could cure it, and what to do to cure it.
Also, if you are in the UK (but probably applies elsewhere): there are ways to overcome this horrible, horrible healthcare system we have here. Do not be afraid to try those. I am not suggesting anything illegalt, but just: be smart. If you want to try a new antibiotics because a paper suggest that it may be useful, PRINT IT AND BRING IT TO YOUR GP. Be convincing, *whatever it takes*. You know what I mean. Good luck guys, my thoughts are for all you.
I will keep reading regularly this topic. If you write, I will reply
BY VAAAL, vaaal88,