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Erection problems and urinating problems at young age

Hello

I am 21 years old and have been really frightened lately by my medical condition.

I've developed urinating problems mroe than 6 months ago, but I was fool enough to ignore them for such a long time, since they are not that serious and I was ashamed of my situation. I have trouble strating to pee, I usually need like between 15-40 seconds to start urinating, however, this tends to vary a lot, as when I'm on a night out with my friends drinking it is usually lower, sometimes even totally normal, and the problem also seemed to be better when I was on holiday with friends. It is good enough in overall for me to avoid other people noticing it witha  few precautions. I also use the toilet mroe frequently, like once every 1 - 1.5 hours, but I'm also very thirsty most of the time drinking 5-6 litres or even more water a day. Somehow I tend to feel different urges when I need to pee, I mean I feal less of an urge and more like some kind of pressure and bad feeling I can't explain it but it's somehow different than what I normally felt when I had to pee.

Around 3 months ago sometimes I found it harder to reach and maintain and erection and after that there were 3-5 day periods aproximetly once every 3-4 weeks when I could not reach a statisfactory erection at all. And it's been like that ever since I feel like it got a bit worse to be honest. It usually takes me much more time to reach a softer erection that is much harder to maintian and can go bakc quite quickly, and I only get really erected 1-2 minutes before I ejaculate. But even that I'm not as hard than I used to be. Sometimes I have morning erections sometimes not but those are not as hard as they used to be either. The past 2 weeks this problem has been killing me. I also feel harded to get sexually arroused, and also find it less pleasureable when my penis is stimulated. For the past months or so basically I nearly never (once maybe in 1-2 weaks) got an erection froms sexual thoughts or pre-sex and pretty much always needed stimultion.

I'm now getting and appointment with a doctor and also checking myself if I have diabetes. I'm extreneky frustrated and frightened that I will never be able to have a normal life like I used to and my whole life just would have started, i'm 21 and so many things have been right for me the past period, I am about to starta  good career, finish university, socialise even more and more (although I have many friends as of now already it's always good to meet new people), I felt so much motivation I'm in a better shape than ever, my exercise paid off, felt motivated to pick up karate again I had abandones a few years ago but had done for 7 years,everything, but these 2 things and especially this erection problem has totally destroyed me.

My worst fear is that I have some kind of complex nerve and muscle damage due to undiscovered diabetes which means that the causes can never eb treated, may only get like somewhat better, and I will have to realy on side treatments until the end of my life and I'm just 21...

I would be happy to hear any advice or opnion to be honest
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