I am a 20 y/o male. For a week or so now I've been having a constant urge to urinate. Not every 15 minutes, not every 5 minutes, it's always there. I feel no relief after urinating. The urge does not feel like the regular "bladder is full" urge. It feels like there is a little bit of urine left in the penis (the discomfort is coming from the penis). There are no other symptoms; I don't feel pain, there is no discharge, etc. I went to a doctor yesterday. They found nothing strange in my urine. He did a rectal exam on my prostate, and found nothing wrong with it. He said it was possible that I had overactive bladder, but thought it was strange that my urges were not the "bladder is full" urges. He said I should wait a while and it might go away on its own, but this morning I called him and got a prescription for Detrol LA. I took a pill around 2 hours ago. However, I seriously doubt that what I have is overactive bladder, since the symptoms seem different from mine (particularly that what I feel is not the need to empty the bladder, and that it is a continuous urge rather than one that reappears every 15 min).
I have seen some posts similar to this around and they're scaring the crap out of me because people claim to have had this for years (and not cured it). I don't think I can withstand having this for years; I'm at my wit's end after just a couple of days. Please help.