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Yes, you need to be drinking more water every day.
The pain was probably not actually coming from your penis, but that's where you felt it. More likely it was a sensation that started somewhere much further back in your urethra, perhaps a tiny tear, or during sex you may have stretched some soft tissue attachment too far and by bearing down you caused a sharp pain that you felt in your penis.
If it was one time, it's probably nothing to worry about.
You can NEVER assume a sexual partner is "safe" unless you were there to see the results of an STD screening in person. Anything other than that is an 80% risk of infection. All clinicians will tell you that 80% of people who get screened for STDs lie about their test results. There are also plenty of STDs that are asymptomatic which you can get without any hint that they're there. Every time you do something risky like that you need to get tested, or you're just passing the risk along to your next partner.View Thread

Pain in the testicles is considered an emergency, but you went to the urologist and they didn't find anything sinister, so hopefully you can find some useful info in the book we both recommended.View Thread

I don't want to say that there is nothing to do about the situation. I am fond of alternatives and often suggest them. My point is that the medical community offers no alternatives here because the situation isn't even recognized.
That in itself may be a bad thing, but I'm not a doctor and cannot change it.View Thread

Sexual health is important for SOME people's emotional well-being, and not for others.
Ejaculation is not required for sexual function unless you are trying to have children, and even then there are ways around it. So, from a purely medical perspective, there is no medical "need" to ejaculate to be healthy, and therefore it is not considered a medical concern.
Whether you agree with the perspective that urination and ejaculation are FAR from equal or not is not in question. The medical community has a fixed opinion on this at present, and urination wins 100% of the time over ejaculatory function. That may be disappointing to many, but it is the state of medicine today.
If you wish to make an issue about your specific circumstances, that will be up to you and your attorney and what you can convince a court to believe. It will however be an uphill battle, and there were likely waivers you signed before the procedure that reviewed risks such as you have experienced.
Good luck.View Thread

Yes, you are worrying way too much about it, and instead of a muscle relaxant, perhaps do something to combat anxiety?
Your body changes for hundreds of reasons. Environment, stress, age, etcetera. You can't expect it to be the same your whole life or even month to month. And while you may not like a freckle or a tight scrotum, unless it's causing physical pain, no doctor is legitimately going to consider doing much about it since it's in no way affecting your actual health.
Your stress about it is self-generated. Unfortunate, but not a medical problem.
I'm disappointed that the doctor gave you any prescriptions at all.
No urologist is going to believe that your genitals are shrinking. First of all, because it doesn't happen. While the external appearance may change because of weight gain or temperature or muscle tension, the flaccid state is not a legitimate measure. Urologists list "my penis is shrinking" as one of the top 10 imagined complaints they hate to hear.
Yes, something changed to cause your scrotum to be tight. Is it a medical problem? No. Does anyone know why? No. Is there a "cure?" No. Should you stop worrying? Yes, unless it's currently interfering with your attempts to have children.
I'm sorry that it bothers you, but that's all there is to it.View Thread

The antibiotic was a BIG mistake though since you did not have a UTI. Now you need to take a probiotic for a month to restore your immune system.
Never let a doctor give you an antibiotic unless an infection has been found.View Thread


I suggest you see a urologist or nephrologist with the idea of possible kidney stone formation in mind. There is an excellent and vast resource of information at http://www.urologystone.com which may be helpful to you.
Either way, this persistent pain is not acceptable, and perhaps a more eager internist will spend the time with you to help figure out what's really going on.View Thread

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