Blotchy red rash/irritated skin on penile head (lasted for over 3 moths now)?

I’m on the first month of the exact same symptoms you all described , I’ve seen many other forums of this issue someone please tell me what’s going on here ???

 How did you come up with that. Also is this contagious I’m wondering if women get this ?

Hi,

I have the same problem. Started six years ago with pain in the tip of penis after ejaculation. For the next week or so, there would be a stinging/burn pain which occurred within five minutes of urination and lasted for approximately 30-45 minutes each time. It never hurt during urination.

Then, after a week, the redness started. It started in small patches on the glans and on the inner foreskin.

I had this for 18 months. I tried canesten, sudocrem, daktacort hc and aqueous cream. The only thing that made it better was aqueous cream. It was like my foreskin had stopped producing natural oils. I even left it unwashed for a week to see if any smegma would be produced, as it always did in my teens if i had not showered in a day or two (as you did as a teenager!). But after a week there was nothing there. No smegma, just redness.

The redness was always worse after sex. Not quite so bad after oral sex. but still there. I was swabbed a couple of times and was all negative. The strange thing about the swabs was that when I got home from the doctors, there were red lines on my glans EXACTLY where the swab had been wiped.

After 18 months of useless advice I demanded a circumcision.

I had the circumcision, and after the bandages came off it was like all my problems had gone. No stinging on urination, no mild sunburn pain, NO REDNESS! You would assume the redness would be worse after losing the protective skin, but no. it was better. After about a week of being circumcised, the skin peels away. I believe it replaces the top layer of skin. The layer we are all struggling with now! Perhaps a chemical skin peel would work!! Don't fancy trying it though!

For six years, I have had no problem at all. I have worn boxer shorts the whole time.

However, after a fairly sex filled weekend with my partner, i noticed a stinging after urination on the Monday. She also announced on Monday that she now had thrush. We had used a condom once that weekend. It was the same sting i had years before. I started to fill with dread. The stinging carried on for a week, then the even more dreaded red blotch appeared on my glans! Not happy. I assumed I also had thrush.

It's now been six months. I have had full STD screening NEGATIVE. Urine test, NEGATIVE. Apparently the STD test included tests for fungus. NEGATIVE.

I have tried, canesten, flucanazole tablet, hydrocortisone 1%, virgin coconut oil, vaseline, sudocrem.

I have days where is looks fine, and days where it looks very bad. The strange thing is that when using the coconut oil, which improved things a lot, when the skin looked normal with no redness, when applying the oil I could FEEL dry patches which I could not feel without the oil present. Sudocrem helped hugely with the redness but does seem to make the skin more dry.  Vaseline makes the red spots worse, and also creates a very mild itch, but a good itch if that makes sense, like a healing itch. This is what i have been using for five days now, twice per day. The stinging after urination has stopped, but the glans remains red but is getting better as I continue.

I believe this is chronic dry skin. It is unlikely that yeast would last over six months, coming and going and not actually getting worse. I will be booking to see a dermatologist soon.

But for now, I will keep with the moisturising using vaseline, and I am also going to be trying some man made fibre underwear as opposed to cotton. Cotton can still cause chafing, which is highlighted when i'm having flare up because it feels like my boxers are made from very fine grit sandpaper!

I will upload some photos later today.

Right, as promised earlier, here are a few photos. Taken over the last month or so, hopefully they'll appear in date order. You will see a very minor sore in the meatus, i think this is what cause the sting after urination. It has been there from the very beginning. I repeat that all STD/fungal/bacterial swabs have come back negative. There is definite meatitis occuring, the severe example where the tip is extremely swollen is about two hours after oral sex. It subsides and is pretty much back to normal the next day. This is the worst it has been in that photo. You can also see in some images how flaky the skin is, it is like it is trying to heal but due to chafing etc, never quite recovers.

Hi ,I struggled with this condition called balanitus  for 4years now,tried broad spectrum fugus cream ,the skin recover a little bit but not as a hall and many other options ,at this moment i am using one drop of tee tree oil in 30 ml hemp seed oil seems to keep the inflammation clean.

I will go for a skin test may be a very specific fungus to combat and stop using sugar at all just drink apple cider vinger water .

the first picture is a year ago so you can see there is just no improvement with any creams luckily i didn't use steroid creams

Come to think about it about the same time that i got this condition i was using steroids injections for a knee problem ,could this steroid use cause this skin problem .

Hi, can I ask, has this affected the inside of anyone’s mouth, especially the tongue, patches that randomly come and go? Similar to geographic tongue? Also have any of your sex partners had any symptoms? Thanks