Definition
Penile pain is a symptom that recognizes several causes. This annoying feeling, more or less serious, can occur independently of sexual activity or occur during intercourse.
Penile pain is found in case of priapism (very painful and persistent erection, not accompanied by sexual desire), non-infectious urethritis, postitis (inflammation of the foreskin) and balanitis (inflammation of the glans).
Other causes include Peyronie's disease (progressive fibrosis of the albuginea tunic surrounding the penis) and Reiter's syndrome (also called reactive arthritis, is a chronic inflammation that can cause urethritis, conjunctivitis and mucocutaneous lesions).
Penile pain can also be caused by venereal diseases and various urinary tract infections, including chlamydia, gonorrhea, genital herpes, candidiasis, trichomoniasis and syphilis.
This symptom can also derive from fracture (cavernous body rupture that occurs, when the penis is forcibly bent) and from other traumas.
Pain can also occur in congenital or acquired penile malformations, such as phimosis (narrowing of the preputial orifice which makes it impossible to discover the glans) and paraphimosis (entrapment of the foreskin in a retracted and stenotic position behind the glans).
Furthermore, in the case of neoplastic processes and penodynia (hypersensitivity of skin and mucous membranes of the external genitalia, referred to as burning, pain or itching; it represents the male variant of vulvodynia in women).
Possible Causes * of Penile Pain
- Contact allergy
- balanoposthitis
- Candida
- Cystitis
- Chlamydia
- phimosis
- Penile fracture
- Gonorrhea
- Genital herpes
- Peyronie's disease
- Paraphimosis
- Prostatitis
- Psoriasis
- Syphilis
- Urethral stricture
- Trichomonas
- Penile cancer
- Urethra tumor
- uretrite
