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957500 tn?1246720144

Stinging just inside urethra...

Hello...

I am 19 years old...I recently went in to go see my GP for what I believed was a UTI...He did urinalysis and it came back negative...He then did a urethral swab to culture and test for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea...Those came back negative also...I drank a ton of water and he gave me 3 500 mg Azithromycin tablets to take...Finished the medicine and felt a lot better...Only thing is I noticed this area just inside the urethral opening that stings very badly when i go urinate...Now the only conclusion I can come up with is that while I had the infection the opening did swell up and that inner part of my urethra was exposed to my underwear which could have rubbed the area and irritated it...My GP prescribed a topical antibiotic ointment over the phone to put on the affected area...What I want to know is, will the area heal up with the ointment because it has been a few days and I am still in a great deal of pain...Or is this one of those things that I will just have to deal with???

All help is greatly appreciated
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957500 tn?1246720144
Thanks a lot.  My doctor told me to give it about a week and then go to the urologist if i am still in pain.  But thanks for your help...I will keep applying the cream and see if it gets any better.  Just one more question,  will the Urologist prescribe anything for the urethritis or will it have to run its course?
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Hi, James2030, you might try a couple of things, and if there is no improvement, go see your doc.

One is, drink a lot of water. If it were a UTI, you would be recommended to drink a lot of cranberry juice or something else slightly acidic, but if it's an irritated urethra from an unknown cause, the acidity isn't so important and you don't need the sugar. A lot of guys with urethral stinging on this site have been helped by simply hydrating a lot (and therefore peeing a lot). Try 8 glasses of water a day, timed for it being convenient for you to pee about a half hour later after each glass.

The sitzbaths the doctor below recommended to the original poster sound nice, too, though I would recommend that if your urethra is stinging, you could put just a small amount of salt or Epsom salts in the water. There's a recipe in the medical sites of something like one or tablespoon of plain salt to a gallon of water, in other words, it's not a lot of salt. But it can help if you are washing a sensitive part of the body that is stinging. It's because the body is generally saline. Sometimes plain water can sting abraded tissue and feel like acid, and a mild saline solution does not.

If someone has an issue with urethritis that doesn't calm down with home tries, he should see the doctor. The doc will swab the urethra, and if the problem is caused by bacteria will probably prescribe an antibiotic.  

Good luck!
I just checked the proportions in case you want to try it. Here's from another poster, who also needed to use water on a sensitive bodily part:

"The ratio I found on a trusted .gov site was 8 teaspoons of table salt per gallon of water. It offers tremendous relief."

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Hello,
From your symptoms,it looks like urethritis. Urethritis is an inflammation of the urethra.It seems related to the friction rub in your case.

Keep on applying the antibiotic cream that your dermatologist has prescribed.Also take some sitzbaths(don’t add anything to the water) and anti inflammatory pain killers like Diclofenac or Ibuprofen if there is any pain.If the symptoms persist then pls consult a urologist.
I sincerely hope that helps. Take care.
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957500 tn?1246720144
Also just to add the urethral opening was sticking together for a while when I first noticed this...But has stopped since the use of the antibiotic ointment...
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