Constant Urge to Urinate

Well not really good news to report. I know its been a while since the last post but I have been away for a while.

I took the antibiotics prescribed for the full 5 days and the symptoms cleared up a bit, the urge wasnt as strong. However, on the beginning of the 5th day it was probably the worst that it had ever been. This really pissed me off as I had to endure a long train Journey - which meant I was up and down every 15 minutes to the toilet.

The symtoms then almost completely cleared for two weeks. They feeling to urinate was always there but it was hardly noticeable, I slept easily and didnt even have to get up in the night.

As soon as I returned home, the problem has become worse again. Its not as bad as before, but its still enough to drive me crazy.

My one theory to go on at the moment is that masturbation provokes this in some way, whilst I was away I ejaculated twice - at home its more frequent.

I am going to go for a week without any sexual contact to see if things improve - if they don’t its back to the doc.

One of the scariest things about having a problem like this is the fact I always assume the worst. Its a habit i’m afraid. After digging around the net for a while, I came across a disease called Interstitial Cystitis. It is basically a disease that can last for YEARS at a time, in some cases never goes away. You have a constant feeling and urge to urinate (the most severe cases being 60 times a day) and you have to restructure your whole life around the nearest urinal. There is no cure, only medicatiton that can relive the symptoms a little.

Fuck that for a life.

I’m not a doc, but surely if this was a bacterial infection - it would have cleared up by now? It wouldn’t also have peaks and troughs in terms of severity either would it?

That is the correct thing to do. It’s not life threatening, so don’t worry too much.

Go to the health food store and get crasnberry supplements to clear that infection.
Also get Olive leaf extract supplements.
Take according to directions use up both supplements.

Do you have any puss coming out of your pee hole (Urethra)?

Cranberry juice does just as well, if you prefer it to supplements, if it is cystitis. Cystitis is not usually a long term problem, though it may recur from time to time.

I’m thinking more on the lines of yeast infection yeast love sugar, cran berry juice has a lot of high fructose corn syrup. Another alternative would be cran raisons which are dehydrated cranberries but they are naturally sweat,no sugar added.

Cranberry juice does not have enough of the medicinal properties that cranberry supplements have.

Thanks for the replies. Yes I have seen in quite a few places that cranberries are seen to reduce problems in that whole area so I will give it a shot.

No, there is no puss anywhere nor any pain when I urinate.

It absolutely seems to be a common bladder infection: see a doctor he’ll give you some antibiotics.

He’s had antibiotics; see the second line of the first post.

Major,

It would seem to me that this might be, but not necessarily be, more than a simple case of cystitis. When you went to see the doctor, did he check your PSA? If not, you might want to consider having that done. While you are very young to be having prostate problems, its not unheard of at your age; and if it is your prostate it is much better to catch it now than later.

If it is a problem with the urinary tract, from kidneys on down, cranberry juice will help, heck, increasing your water consumption will help to flush it out. Especially since you have had one round of antibiotics. Please keep us posted.

It is a clue that the antibiotics helped for a while. It sounds like the 5 day course was not enough, and some of the infection survived and repopulated after you stopped the drugs.

It is also possible that a yeast infection took hold in the absence of bacteria while you were on the drugs.

Yogurt is good for yeast infections.

Cranberry is supposed to be good, I believe by lowering urine pH and therefore making a less hospitible environment for bacteria.

Sugar in the cranberry shouldn’t be an issue since it will not be in the urine, unless you have diabetes or something.

If the doctor did a urine test he probably tested glucose.

PSA test is a good idea!

You got to watch out for antibiotic therapy, to many antibiotics can lead to super infection which is a yeast infection.

I keep believing you need the right antibiotic for the right number of days: you could ask your doctor for some urine and blood test searching for the bacterium affecting you and its resistance to antibiotics in order to choose the right therapy.

Chicken, I have the opposite problem. If I piss then masturbate or have sex, I get that no so comfortable feeling in the head of my dick. The pain builds up and if I can hold out long enough I’ll eventually take a nice long piss and every things okay. If I can’t take the feeling and piss too early then I get that feeling like I’m not done pissing, similar to a urinary tract infection. I know it’s not an infection because it’s been happening to me for years.

On another note, and I don’t mean to hijack the thread, I want to tell you all about the most painful event of my life which involved a urinary tract infection. When I was 23 I started getting this pain in my left nut and by the time I was 25 it had progressed to the point of pain in my left nut (like being kicked) and someone cutting me on the inside (around my back where your kidney is) with a hot knife. Not pleasant but the doctors didn’t know what it was. I’m cutting out a lot of details for the sake of keeping it short, including the barium enema and the x-prep moments. Turns out I had a thinning of my ureter (tube running from the kidney to the bladder) so they had to cut out the thinned part and stitch it up. In turn they insert a catheter into the ureter so your piss can pass through. It’s like a small rubber straw. Anyway, guess how they get that thing out. That’s right with a instrument that goes in through the hole you piss out of. It’s got a little claw on the end;like those claws that you see in those games where you try to pick up some stuffed animal surrounded by a glass case but the claw is always so weak it never grabs anything. Oh yeah, the nurse numbs the end of my dick then grabs it and doc goes in searching for the treasure, through the bladder and up the pipes. Okay, so that wasn’t so bad but when old doc tries to pull it out it gets stuck on something and he’s tugging at my insides for a good two minutes until it finally breaks free and whamo there it is about six inches long. That’s not even the most painful part, the thing about was, I had a urinary tract infection when he did it and my god did I squirm in the office for about 15 minutes, which felt like hours, until they gave me some meds and sent me on my way. I went home, sat in a hot bathe and soaked and pissed tiny squirts of blood for about two hours, each time it felt like pissing tiny razor blades. After that I was better and the meds worked well, although they made my piss turn bright orange. Just thought I would share a really terrible time in my life with my brothers. Everyone cup your balls and say “Thank you cock and balls for never putting me through what Thaistyle went through and don’t ever think about it either or I’ll cut you clean off.”