Many men go through sexual pains quietly sometimes until it is too late to deal with the problem.
One such case is urethritis which is inflammation of the urethra with the most common symptom being painful or difficult urination.
The infection is usually caused by a bacteria.
Urethritis is often a sexually transmitted infection (STI) but some are non-STI urinary tract infections.
To determine if you’re suffering from the infection, some of the most common symptoms include urethra pain caused by inflammation. There could be pain when urinating (dysuria).
Other symptoms include a frequent or urgent need to urinate, difficulty starting urination, itching, pain, or discomfort when a person is not urinating.
The infection can also affect relationships since it can cause pain during sex especially for women who if infected my produce a discharge from the urethral opening or vagina.
Sometimes in men, there can be traces of blood in the semen or urine.
Urethritis can however easily be cured with antibiotics.
According to webmd.com, most episodes of urethritis are caused by bacteria that enter the urethra from the skin around the urethra's opening. These bacteria include E. coli and other bacteria present in stool.
Other sexually transmitted bacteria are gonococcus which causes gonorrhoea, chlamydia trachomatis, which causes chlamydia.
The herpes simplex virus (HSV-1 and HSV-2) can also cause urethritis. Trichomonas is another cause of urethritis. It is a single-celled organism that is sexually transmitted.
In men, gonorrhoea and chlamydia sometimes cause epididymitis, an infection of the epididymis, a tube on the outside of the testes. Both PID and epididymitis can lead to infertility.
Diagnosis of urethritis is possible through a medical history and a physical examination may include the genitals, abdomen, and rectum and urine tests for gonorrhoea, chlamydia or other bacteria.
Urethritis can successfully be cured using antibiotics but if the exact organism causing urethritis cannot be identified, the doctor may prescribe one or more antibiotics likely to cure the infection.