Introduction - 27 years old - Need some advice

[Cyril]

Hello everyone new member here - though I've actually been around for awhile now this is my first time posting.  This is a great forum and it's been very informative reading through the posts, and some members have already helped me out with advice via PM which I'm very grateful for.  

My story starts sometime around last summer where I began to feel, during any sexual activity, a noticeable pain and tightness in the left side of the penis shaft.  Thought nothing of it except as maybe a minor injury that would clear up so I refrained from masturbation for a few weeks.  Eventually though towards the end of last year a curve started to develop in the left side, in exactly the place where I'd been feeling the pain, though right now the curve is mainly only prominent when in the flaccid state and has slowly progressed.

I saw a urologist who inspected my penis and said that everything looked normal.  Granted, I wasn't seeing him about Peyronie's, but for a left-sided groin pain that has been chronic for about two years now and to which the doctors still can't figure out (nothing comes up on ultrasounds).  I'm convinced that this inguinal pain has something to do with this inflammation/injury in the penis.  Recently I've developed symptoms reminiscent of Urethritis/Urinary Tract Infection, where instead of a pleasurable feeling during masturbation/ejaculation I feel a painful itching/strong irritation in my urethra.  I wouldn't know whether this has anything to do with the curvature, but I do feel it's connected to the chronic groin pain.  All of these problems combined have led me to believe it has something to do with my prostate, but the idea of Prostatitis was rejected almost immediately by the urologist and GP.

So now I'm just wondering what to do at this point.  The curvature has worsened some but remains primarily in the flaccid state, though in the erect state there is still tightness and evidence of some very slight, minor denting but the pain has leveled out some.  My concern about bringing this to another urologist is the fact that the hollowing and curvature is fully evident only after sexual activity and so they'll just diagnose it as normal again.  On days when I've refrained from masturbation and I'm 'hanging low', so to speak, the curvature is very minor but still more than it used to be before last year.  It would be hard for anyone but me to notice that though.

Looking forward to hearing some responses.  Thanks and take care.

[damian]

You may have this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_prostatitis/chronic_pelvic_pain_syndrome. This tightness you have may be hard-flaccid which is caused by CPPS. All Discussions - Hard Flaccid Forum

[Cyril]

Thanks for the prompt reply Ushti.  I've suspected CPP but also heard that it usually isn't present with UTIs, which I think I might have.  How exactly are CPP's diagnosed?  I'm currently waiting on results from a urinalysis and a general blood test.

[damian]

Not with UTI's, but with urinary tract pain exact like by an infection.  I had my urine tested and it was clean, but experienced pain in the urethra. I'm not sure, but I think CPPS can't be rightly diagnosed. It's barely understood from URO's, just like peyronie's.

I'm doing stretches from a book called "heal pelvic pain" that they are recommending on the HF forum. They mention some kinds of trigger points too. You have to find them and massage them out. I couldn't find any though, so I'm just doing these stretches. It helps me alot with HF and have already no groin, prostate and UT pain, that I experienced before.

Try it, you may be lucky if you just have HF. It seems to be the case.