Why does it hurt when men urinate?

I believe many men have encountered this problem, that is, there will be a stinging sensation when urinating, and in severe cases, they will be particularly afraid of urinating. At the same time, it will be accompanied by other symptoms, such as frequent urination and urgency. Sometimes they feel like urinating very much, but when they go to the toilet, they can only urinate a little. This feeling will be very uncomfortable. So what causes these symptoms?

Why does it hurt when men urinate?

1. Prostatitis

Prostatitis can also cause urination pain, and the pain is most obvious at the end of urination. After urinating, you still feel pain, similar to the feeling of "empty pain". It is more common in people who often sit to work, such as drivers and IT personnel. Before and after the stinging pain during urination, there is also lower abdominal discomfort, and there is often secretion at the urethra after squeezing, then you may have prostatitis.

Recent studies have shown that prostatitis urodynamic examinations have revealed that after men develop prostatitis, the posterior urethral pressure increases significantly, causing the smooth muscle capacity of the posterior urethra to increase, causing urine to flow back to the prostate. The uric acid in the urine will produce a chemical stimulation, causing prostate patients to experience symptoms such as painful urination and groin pain.

In summary, when men experience urinary pain, they should actively cooperate with the examination to confirm what disease is causing it. Generally speaking, the first thing to do is to do a routine urine test to check whether there are abnormalities such as red blood cells, white blood cells, and pus cells in the urine, which can help determine the cause of urinary pain. Then, combined with its clinical symptoms, it can be judged whether it is caused by other diseases.

2. Cystitis

Cystitis is an inflammation of the bladder. It is mostly caused by infection in the urethra that goes back to the bladder. Therefore, cystitis is often associated with chronic urethritis. When urinating, the bacteria-laden urine in the bladder stimulates the urethra, which causes a noticeable burning sensation, pain during urination, lower abdominal pain at the end of urination, cloudy urine, and sometimes hematuria.

When doing urine bacteria culture, it can be found that the number of bacteria per milliliter of urine exceeds 100,000. If it is not treated in time, it will turn into chronic cystitis, and the condition will be prolonged and difficult to cure. At this time, if you take diuretic and anti-inflammatory pills that have the effects of clearing away heat and detoxification, diuresis and stranguria, the disease can be cured quickly.

3. Sexually transmitted diseases such as gonorrhea or condyloma acuminatum

If you have a history of unclean sexual behavior and then experience stinging pain when urinating, increased urethral discharge, rashes and bumps on the penis, the most likely problem is a sexually transmitted disease such as gonorrhea or genital warts.

4. Urethritis

Urethritis refers to the invasion of bacteria, viruses and other pathogens into the urethra, which causes inflammation, irritation to the urethra, and affects urination. It is the main cause of urination pain. Male patients in the acute stage of urethritis will also have purulent secretions. A smear of the secretions or a urine bacterial culture can be done to confirm which pathogen is causing it.

5. Syphilis

A sexually transmitted disease caused by Treponema pallidum, it can attack the heart, eyes, brain, bones and nervous system. The course of the disease is very long and the symptoms appear from time to time. Its natural course is divided into three stages: the first stage is insensitive, and erythema, papules and ruptures appear at the site of virus invasion, and these symptoms may disappear after a period of time; the second stage is that the virus multiplies in the blood, and erythema, blood rash, maculopapular rash, etc. similar to pityriasis rosea, psoriasis and acne appear on the skin and mucous membranes; if it is not treated at this time, it will enter the third stage, and it will be life-threatening if not treated in time.