So, I've been reading up about the condition I'm about to post, and have seen other posts like it, but my question concerns something else then what is frequently asked.
To start off, I recently began masturbating. At 17, I'll admit, I'm a little late to the game, but with my girlfriend of a more than a year now pledging abstinence (ugh), I decided I might as well learn somehow.
So, after about a month of doing so once or twice every day or two, I began to realize that every now and then the tip of my penis would flare up in occasional bouts of discomfort, but usually went away within half an hour.
(For the sake of information, I will say that I usually masturbated laying down, and finished into a tube sock.)
After a particularly uncomfortable experience of the event described in the last paragraph, I decided to give my 'soldier' a break, thinking that I'd just been working him too hard. That was about a week ago.
The first day after I decided to stop for a few days, the tip of my penis was sensitive and irritated, making me feel a slight, more annoying than painful feeling down there all day. It burned slightly as it rubbed up against my clothes. It didn't hurt to urinate though.
Thinking this was just a side-effect, I made it through the day.
The next day, I woke up with the same effects, and the day after that, and the day after that...
So now, here I am. It's been almost a week now, and my penis tip is still sore and uncomfortable. Any insights as to what's going on, and what I can do to relieve the pain? (I've heard horror stories about what doctors do to test penis-heads...*shudder*...So any home-remedies or tips would be extremely helpful)