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[niner123]

Hi I am 21 and male. About a year ago I had sex with a girl I hardly knew, but the condom broke. Within the next couple days I started feeling a tingling sensation in my penis, started having frequency urinating, a little burning sensation while urinating and a feeling of not quite emptying. Also I developed irritation on my foreskin and on the shaft a bit too (red, itchy, dry). The tip (around the opening) is also red and is sometimes irritated as well. I wanted to ask the girl but she moved to Texas the week after.. I waited to go to the doctor about 2 months after to make sure I was out of most of the window periods for testing for stds. I was tested for gonorrhea, Chlamydia, syphilis, and hiv. All came back negative. I went back about 2 months later (I don’t have insurance so I have not been able to go as often I want) and they tested me for herpes. That was negative. I went back about a month after that and they did another gonorrhea and Chlamydia test. Also negative. So I went to another doctor after that to see what he thought. He prescribed me smz/tmp for 7 days thinking it may be a uti. Didn't work. So he sent my urine to be cultured. Came back normal.. He thought I may have prostatitis so he put me on Ciprofloxin for 10 days, also didn’t work. He suggested I go to a urologist because he could not figure out my problem but I'm on a government aid (sliding fee scale) so its not completely expensive to see my regular doctor but to see a urologist would cost me ALOT more per visit and I have been barely staying on top of my bills as is.. So I decided to see a different doctor. About this time (about a year after the condom broke) I started having low back pains and basically pains around where the kidneys are so I was getting more concerned. She sent for another urine culture and it came back normal. She prescribed me levaquin for 10 days and said that if its an infection of any kind of bacteria that this would definitely take care of it (she thought it might be epididymitis because I have had a little pain here and there in my scrotum).. Didn’t work.. Of course during this whole time I was doing much research online and saw that I could I have a yeast infection that moved into my urinary tract (not likely but possible) So I told my doctor and she prescribed me diflucan. Also no luck. So they set me up an appointment to do an ultra sound to look at my kidneys and bladder. They found that my kidneys and bladder were fine. And now they’re saying that I definitely need to go to the urologist... But again I can’t afford it.... So my questions are……
{Oh and my symptoms at this present time are: frequency, slight burning sensation while urinating, pain in the areas of the kidneys, and the tip of the penis around the opening is still a bit red. (The irritation around my penis subsided a few months after I initially started having symptoms but I do have occasion where it gets irritated)}
1. Is there any way it could still be an infection of any sort? My Doctor told me a urine culture would show ANY infection (Is this true?) and there is no way I have any sort of UTI. ( I disagree cause I can feel it)
2. Would the urine culture show yeast? I read that it could miss a yeast infection. I also read there are strands of Candida that are resistant to diflucan, so is it possible that I may have a yeast infection. Could the culture miss the fungus and could the diflucan be resisted?
3. What else could it be? The area around my kidneys is in pain and I am having the other symptoms so I am still convinced it is some sort of infection because the ultra sound proved there are no obstructions.
Thank you very much for your time!!!

[niner123]

When the pain started I did have symptoms of a fever, although I never actually checked my tempurature at the time.. Everyone else on here keeps telling me I probably have kidney stones but my symptoms dont match up. Some say that the pain of passing a stone is almost comparable to pregnancy. My pains arent sharp pains and when moving, the pains I'm experiencing are hard to explain but not sharp pains when moving .. I feel it more when I'm not moving and when I'm sitting. When I'm laying down or standing/walking its not as bad. The pain is moderate and pretty constant and on both sides (both kidneys). But not in one area, sometimes the pain is more in my abdomen below my rib cage and sometimes its in my back below the rib cage or pretty much random pains all over my lower back that seem to be from my kidneys (not normal back pains). So i'm thinkin it has to be some sort of an infection.

[Dr. Kokil Mathur]

Hi
Welcome to the MedHelp forum!
Yes, fungal infections are often resistant to common antifungals. Also they are not detected by common cultures. Ask your doctor to specifically look for fungal infection in urine. Since you have persistent infection and STDs have been ruled out, test your blood sugar and see. A high blood sugar will make it difficult to treat infection. This could have resulted in prostatits and maybe even cystitis and infection of kidney. However chances of kidney involvement are less as you do not have fever.
Hope this helps. Please let me know if there is any thing else and do keep me posted. Take care!

[audra30]

yes definitly get a referal to a urologist. definitly sounds like an infection of some sort and a urine test can miss things and if u know somethings wrong that just keep searching till u find someone to listen. good luck.

[mammo]

It sounds like it's either your kidneys or something spreading to your kidneys, I highly advise you to see the Urologist.  This will not go away on it's own and the longer it goes, the more expensive it's going to be to fix it.  By acting now, you may be preventing yourself from developing something much more serious, and costing you a lot of money.