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Ongoing Testicular Pain With Nausea
Exactly one month ago, I made the mistake of having unprotected sex with two different people.
A week or so later, I started having some pain in the tip of my penis and some testicular discomfort. I went to my doctor, and they did a full STD panel. Everything has come back negative. The tingling sensation in my penis comes and goes, but the testicular pain is nearly constant. Laying down, sitting or standing it's always there. At times it is enough to make me feel nauseas.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? I was given antibiotics for both chlamydia and Gonorrhea (preemptively) but neither antibiotic has helped.
The discomfort is enough to keep me up at night at times and it's becoming a major distraction and effecting my quality of life, sex drive, etc.
A week or so later, I started having some pain in the tip of my penis and some testicular discomfort. I went to my doctor, and they did a full STD panel. Everything has come back negative. The tingling sensation in my penis comes and goes, but the testicular pain is nearly constant. Laying down, sitting or standing it's always there. At times it is enough to make me feel nauseas.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? I was given antibiotics for both chlamydia and Gonorrhea (preemptively) but neither antibiotic has helped.
The discomfort is enough to keep me up at night at times and it's becoming a major distraction and effecting my quality of life, sex drive, etc.
Thanks very much. It's a strange sensation, when I wake up, I generally don't feel it for the first minute or two, but the second it gets in the back of my mind, it starts to come on...
No STD is a likely cause of such symptoms. Assuming the testicular pain is rather vague and difficult to localize -- i.e. no testicular enlargement or tenderness to touch -- then most likely it's "chronic pelvic pain syndrome", which can be the result of genitally focused anxiety. That doesn't imply the pain is "in my head" as many persons might assume. Just as with tension headaches, pain results from increased muscle tension -- in this case in pelvic muscles -- due to anxiety over a sexual exposure that you regret or makes you nervous.
Try googling CPPS (spell it out); there's a good Wikipedia article. If the symptoms seem to fit, consider seeing a urologist. But in the meantime, try not to worry. Once you understand you have no STD or anything else serious, your symptoms may clear. In any case, this sort of problem almost never turns out to be serious -- discomfort without disease.
Good luck.
Try googling CPPS (spell it out); there's a good Wikipedia article. If the symptoms seem to fit, consider seeing a urologist. But in the meantime, try not to worry. Once you understand you have no STD or anything else serious, your symptoms may clear. In any case, this sort of problem almost never turns out to be serious -- discomfort without disease.
Good luck.
A couple more pieces of info that might help. I have no discharge of any kind. My doctor examined me for Epididymitis but found nothing out of the ordinary, no observable swelling or discoloration.
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