What causes urethral pain?

The main cause of urethral pain is due to infection and inflammation, which mainly includes stinging or burning pain at the urethral opening, as well as cystitis, prostatitis, chronic nephritis, urethral opening inflammation, and bladder triangle inflammation. When urethral pain occurs, do not avoid checking because you are worried about losing face or other obstacles.

Many men feel pain in the urethra when urinating. Why does the urethra hurt? Experts remind that urethral pain is usually caused by urethritis. In addition to the pain at the urethral opening, urethritis also manifests itself as urgency, frequent urination, and turbid urine. The frequency of urination is once every few minutes, accompanied by a burning sensation and pain in the urethra, and sometimes hematuria can be seen in turbid urine. When upper urinary tract infection occurs, there are chills, fever, back pain, and turbid urine, sometimes accompanied by digestive tract symptoms and systemic symptoms. If you have urethral pain, you must not be careless, you must check in time, determine the condition, and prescribe the right medicine.

What is urethral pain? Male urethral pain should be alert to the following situations:

(1) Pain at the urethral opening accompanied by white urine, that is, cloudy urine in men, may also be accompanied by urethritis or urinary stones.

(2) Pain at the urethral opening, accompanied by difficulty urinating and bloating, often indicates prostate hyperplasia in elderly men and can also be seen in urethral stones.

(3) Stinging or burning pain during urination. This condition is more common in acute inflammatory irritation, such as acute urethritis, cystitis, prostatitis, and pyelonephritis.

(4) There will be pain when urinating, and the pain will continue after urination. Sometimes, it will hurt even if you don’t urinate. The lesions are mostly in the urethra or nearby organs, such as trigone inflammation, prostatitis, etc.

(5) If you feel obvious pain at the urethral opening when you start to urinate, it may be acute urethritis. If a man feels pain at the end of urination, it is more likely to be cystitis.

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