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Penis pain
Hi, for 3 months ive been experiencing problems in my penis following a rough hand job from a sex worker. Im uncircumcised and she wasnt particularly careful which resulted in a small 'paper cut' (about 1mm) inside the meatus opening. This was confirmed by my local sexual health clinic (and again by my GP) who did a check for Gon, Cla and HSV2 which came back negative, there are no other indicaters of an std. Since then however ive experienced at first weird itchiness for 2 months which was eventually diagnosed as thrush. I applied Canesten cream for a week and the itchiness went away for a few days so I stopped. However it came back so applied it for two more days and it stopped for a little while once again, before coming back. I checked with my GP and he said to reapply it for 2 weeks, 3 times a day. I've been doing so for 10 days and the itch has been gone for nearly a week but I started to notice the meatus lips were getting a bit 'stingy' a few days ago. Yesterday they actually started to hurt and this morning when i pulled back my foreskin to check, the lips at first appeared normal but that started to swell a little and the pain escalated. Im concerned that the initial encounter damage the interior of my glans and that the canesten (which is a topical steroid for antifungal treatment) has caused some sort of further damage through over use. Obviously im a little freaked out about it so any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
some more info, i was advised to make sure my glans as clean and dry after every time i pee. So i was patting the head dry with tissue paper each time i went. Im wondering if this has upset the nerves in the meatus even more.
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sorry should also have mentioned that the pain comes and goes. its not constant, in the past theres been a few days when ive been symptom free. After having discomfort the pain this morning, everything has died down. Checking the glans it does look very dry down there.
right, a quick update. things are better this morning and i think its down to one simple trick. I left it alone. I didnt wash and dry the glans after every trip to the toilet and i didnt wash \ dry at the end of the day. I had this hunch before but i figure my docs advise to keep it clean and dry all the time is a bit off. Im uncircumsised and my guess is the nerves just cant handle it. Theres 20,000 nerves in the foreskin so frequent washing \ drying is setting them off. Its not 100% right now but its a damn site better than it wash yesterday. It looks better as well, less red and inflamed.
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