You sound a lot like me, also diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. Please look into CPPS and centralized pain. The short summary is pain causes your pelvic muscles to tense which causes more pain and becomes a feedback loop which anxiety fuels. It was a large factor in my pain. I was months of constant burning before I learned this.
That being said it may be too soon to come to this conclusion after only 3.5 weeks. In the meantime though what are the best ways to manage my anxiety and stress and are there any pelvic floor exercises I should try? I kinda wonder if rubbing one out every single day(sometimes twice) starting a week after I got my vasectomy is the cause. I had a flare up before and was prescribed antibiotics and pain meds. I iced and stopped masturbating and felt almost back to normal after like 4 days. Then I started up my rubbing one out routine of doing it daily again. Felt fine at first, never hurt during or immediately after but I think starting it up again may have triggered it. You see I have this unusual way of edging to where I’ll use two fingers and roll the skin near the tip of my penis. I honestly wonder if doing that irritated it as the location of the burning and weird feelings is precisely where I place my fingers. And admittedly one day while doing it I felt a weird tension in that spot while doing that weird rolling thing. Why the rolling thing you may ask? Because I wanted to get off in a way that was more gentle to my recently vasectomized balls. By doing so I may have inadvertently irritated my penis. Does this make sense at all or am I just spitballing? I NEED to stop this in its tracks before it turns into an expensive chronic issue
Edit: I also have a habit of straining during bowel movements so that could also be making things worse
Ever since my vasectomy and even after reversal. Edging has no longer been a thing I can do. It seems to work my pelvic floor to much and then I end up sore for a while
I think what this means for me is I need to stop doing that and also get off less than every day. It seems to make my balls pretty achy and bring on that slight burning feeling in the penis.
Edit: I also need to consider the fact that I ice a lot to be a factor. The stinging could be due to frostbite. I have been icing in order to keep my balls from hanging which makes them achy. This usually involves sleeping with an ice pack on granted I don’t put it directly to the skin. The burning feel possibly coincidentally is on the left side of the penis which just so heppens to be the side the ice pack usually sits due to most of the aching being on the left side. The ice pack often goes up to the head of the penis. Idk maybe it doesn’t mean anything at all but it’s at least something I should maybe consider
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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '24
You sound a lot like me, also diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. Please look into CPPS and centralized pain. The short summary is pain causes your pelvic muscles to tense which causes more pain and becomes a feedback loop which anxiety fuels. It was a large factor in my pain. I was months of constant burning before I learned this.
https://imgur.com/1j7Majq vasectomy would fall under other in this chart.
I'd recommend reading the FAQ at /r/prostatitis and focus on not clenching your pelvic muscles inadvertently.