Hi everyone,

I’m posting here because I’m getting really anxious that I might have developed CPPS, and I’m looking for some advice or similar experiences.

For the past few months, I’ve been dealing with two main symptoms:

• A constant feeling of tightness/contracture in my perineum.
• Post-void dribble (some drops of urine always stay trapped and leak out right after I finish peeing).

I am almost certain this condition started after a period of doing frequent and prolonged edging sessions. This has been going on for months now, and I suspect it hasn't gone away because I never truly stopped masturbating (even though I am much gentler now and my sessions are shorter).

My questions for this community are:

1. Has anyone else developed these exact symptoms (pelvic floor tightness and trapped urine) specifically from edging?
2. If you were in my situation, did completely abstaining from masturbation give your pelvic floor the time to heal and resolve the issue?

Any advice or success stories would be really appreciated. Thank you!

My pain won’t stop, I need to live my life I’m only 30.

What have people done to stop testicle pain, I’ll have any of the other pain just not testicle.

I’m on amytriptaline.

Diagnosed with CPPS/prostatitis at 22 after stupidly being drunk and putting in wrong hole, condom broke and felt fever. Now I’m suffering eight years

Tried so much why this hell not right at school so we can get antibiotics straight away.

I’m 38M. About a month ago, I developed a severe urinary illness with high fever, chills, lower back pain, headaches, burning urination and changes in urine flow, a day after having back-to-back sex with my wife. However, I don’t think sex alone would explain all these symptoms. I had also been drinking potassium-rich coconut water around that time and was under considerable work-related stress.

My urine test showed high white blood cells, but the culture showed no growth.

I completed 7 days of nitrofurantoin, but my symptoms returned, including blood in my urine, so I went to A&E. I was then prescribed 7 days of trimethoprim 200mg twice daily.

My urinary symptoms have mostly improved. My urine flow is normal, erections are strong and ejaculation is still forceful.

However, my ejaculation stream is now much thinner than before the illness. Previously, it was noticeably thicker/wider.

Has anyone experienced this after a severe UTI? Did your ejaculation stream eventually return to normal?
What might be going on, and has anything helped restore the width of your ejaculation stream? How long did recovery take?

Thank you for reading.

Hi, I have noticed a weird recurring pattern that has happened thrice now for the last 3 months. I usually masturbate regularly but whenever there's a big gap in between, then on the day i masturbate again, once I ejaculate, after a few seconds, there's a sharp cramp/pain in urethra which lasts for few seconds and than disappears. If I masturbate regularly, it doesn't happen, after a gap of 2-3 days also, it doesn't happen, for a long gap like 5+ days, it happens. Anyone knows what's cause of this and how do you fix this?

Hello, I am fairly confident that I have bacterial prostatitis, but am unsure how to test for it. My symptoms include persistent dehydration and foamy, smelly urine. These urinary symptoms have been coming and going every few months since I had mycoplasma genitallium about a year and a half ago. I have experienced CPPS symptoms as well and understand it is common to be paranoid, but am pretty confident something else is wrong or else my urine would not smell and I would not be so dehydrated all the time.

I saw a urologist earlier this year because I was also experiencing hematospermia (blood in my semen) during sex. He assured me it was highly unlikely I had bacterial prostatitis, and that was likely the mycoplasma still working its way out (nearly a year later). Said that if it was an issue he would’ve been able to tell from my urine culture. Said that doing a semen culture would be pointless would not be able to tell anything.

After a seemingly normal summer I am back to having these urinary UTI symptoms again yet testing negative for a UTI. I am currently on a week of antibiotics for BV but it should not be causing these issues.

Is four-glass or two-glass test what I am looking for? I have been trying to figure this out nearly two years now and just been robbed by doctors and lost in loops of searching for a solution on Reddit. Can somebody please tell me how to test for this so I can get piece of mind (I’m in the US)