u/LoveCloudAtlas

Urethral discomfort / feeling like there is a drop of urine in my urethra. Is it CPPS?

Has anyone here had a similar experience and/or would be able offer some guidance?

For over a month, I have felt that my penile urethra is sensitive. It's very mild, doesn't disrupt my day-to-day at all, and I don't even feel anything when I'm completely focused on something else. Even when I do focus, I don't always feel it. But sometimes I might feel a slight irritation, or more often the feeling that a drop of urine is making its way through it, while I feel it inside, way more sensitively than normal.

This started just over a week after unprotected sex. However, I should give some context that I became unnaturally worried about contracting an STI from this incident before any symptoms even started. Also before my symptoms had started, I had already booked an asymptomatic STI test with no evidence of any risk.

I tested negative twice (both just before and after the 2 week period) for chlamydia and gonnorrhoea. Not at risk of trich.

Saw my GP. Ordered a urine test. Urine culture Normal (No Action), but Leucocyte test came back positive.

Nitrofurantoin and D-Mannose for a possible UTI didn't work.

Saw a urologist, who saw no need for another urine test and prescribed more antibiotics. I did have a 5-day period of no symptoms while using Doxycycline and Levofloxacin last week, but after one instance of ejaculation (while I was still on antibiotics) the feeling came back. It is possible that the feeling passed due to some internal relief of using antibiotics. I think I was already better a day before even starting them. I also don't know why it came back while I was still on them.

Had a second appointment with the urologist where I told him this. He said I'm getting better and to leave it be. It seems to be kind of stuck like this for now though (not getting better or worse).

No other symptoms whatsoever.

I've basically narrowed this down to CPPS or MGen, which I wasn't tested for. But the symptoms don't seem to match MGen at all, right? Do they match anyone's experience of CPPS? The urologist clearly told me I have nothing that I can pass on, but I didn't specifically raise the possibility of MGen, which I wasn't aware of at the time.

Any help is appreciated.

Edit: I should add that my symptoms are sporadic, usually more in the morning and at night, but importantly no significant change while I'm urinating, or after.

Edit 2: I'm in my mid-20s

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u/LoveCloudAtlas — 3 days ago

Do you have your own version of MAYHEM?

With the MAYHEM era coming to a close and probably all songs having been released, do you have your own version of MAYHEM? Explain what you removed, what you added, and what you switched!

  1. I started with the Deluxe. I don't like The Dead Dance. I don't consider it a part of MAYHEM either, though sonically it fits, it's bit too much of the same thing after the vastly superior Zombieboy. So TDD was out.

  2. I think Happy Mistake is truly a masterpiece and fits so neatly into MAYHEM, with metaphors like "my head is filled with broken mirrors" reflecting the album cover. I had initially added Happy Mistake between The Beast and Blade of Grass, removing Die With A Smile. That worked fine until...

  3. ...The new version of Die With A Smile. It's just an excellent closer. So so so powerful.

  4. And to be honest, I am not a fan of Blade of Grass, so now that there's another credible closer, for me, it didn't make the final cut.

u/LoveCloudAtlas — 2 months ago