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

Hey mate yes we all do that lol, my Urologist did say at one stage that it could be a viral infection which he said if it is there is really nothing to take for it, i know there’s nothing wrong inside as my Urologist checked for any think unusual and found nothing, all ok inside. His situation was interesting as well with having oral sex and then having the itchyness which is what my first real symtom was but I never had the runs or any flu toe symptoms, I will try and contact him for sure. For me I definitely know I contracted something but what I do not know, and it’s why for me as I said I really think some type of bacteria infection, I’m just gonna wait until I see infectious decease Doc now as this new information with the famiclovir should give them something to work with, whether it’s just something in the antibiotic that is for some reason reacting and killing the pain or it is a type of herpes well we will find out, but my Urologist did say that he couldn’t explain why but also said it doesn’t mean I have herpes either as I have tested negative for both 1&2. Yes I have tried all creams and even natural oils but they only inflame the meatus even more so Iv given up on using anything topical. Good luck and stay strong 

You mentioned in your post that the  Cyprofluxcin took your irritation away. Just curious did the tip of your penis irritated you when rubbing against your boxers? or was it something different? and did the cyprofluxcin clear the irritation? 

Hey Sego, sorry to hear about your problem. The Cyprofluxin got rid of the crazy pain in my Ureathra (that’s the little creature scratching at my Ureathra I mentioned in my first thread), but no it didn’t fix the iratation of my meatus or gland(head). First thing you need to do is stop wearing boxers when at work, exercising or doing anything like that, where undies, keep him packed in there nice and snug so it doesn’t flip flop around, this is what I found helped me, didn’t remove iratation but it helped. Now I’m waiting to see infectious disease specialist at the moment because  if you read my last thread you’ll see that I have just found out in the last 5 months that flamclovir removed that iratation, stinging, pinching pain to the meatus/gland up to 95% of the time now. It does come back at stages but no where near what I had, it’s the first time since taking the cyprofluxin that any antibiotic has worked and it’s the first time in 2 and a half years that my penis has felt how it used to feel, like it’s not there lol. I would try Flamclovir and see what it does for you as I haven’t heard of this helping anyone else with our type of problem and the feedback would be truly helpful to us all.  I take 2 x 500mg tabs a day of flamclovir, oh and also remember just because you get a reaction to this drug doesn’t mean you have herpes, I test negative to both HSV 1&2. Good luck with your problem and please let me know if it has worked for you because as I said any feedback will help everyone with this crazy and messed up thing we all have. Stay strong 

​have you already visited that famous disease doc? any news about your situation?

Hey mate

Sorry for the late reply been flat out. Yes did go and see specialist last Friday, as this is the first visit to him he has sent me for all the normal tests all over again but is doing some extras. We chatted about the whole story from start to finish and some, as you only have a limited time with first visit he obviously has made no diagnosis at this stage pending results. He wants to work through things one by one and go from there (obvious being new to this doctor) he did mention at one stage that with my story and condition that it was a chance that it was a bacteria infection and that it has damaged the nerve endings in gland. I did ask why the famiclovir got rid of the pain when I test negative to Herpes and he really had no answer for this other then we will talk more on that next time, he has put me on APO-Valaciclovir 500mg once a day until I go back at the beginning of May, I personally think this is a waste of time as I don’t have Herpes and have no real pain anymore other then a little stinging pain after ejaculation which goes within a minute anyway, I will take it for a couple of weeks and see but I will stop if nothing happens and I’ll just wait for all results and see what he comes up with next. My condition as of today is 95% better then 2-3 months ago and I really only have the two little nods on my meatus and a bit of redness at times so I am leaning towards nerve damage now as it seems to slowly and I mean slowly getting better month by month, also started taking probiotics and working out and swimming again, also been meditating which to be honest is working wonders with everything even the anxiety as well (didn’t really think this would do anything) but has, really mate just trying to live a normal life again. Will let you know results and an update once iv been back to see him. How’s your situation going? Stay strong 👍

It’s great to keep us all in the loop. I think most on the forum are struggling to work out what has happened and what to do.

With us all in the same boat and trying a variety of treatments we will eventually find the thing that makes the difference.

Hang in there - it’s only a matter of time for us all!

Thank you for the update!🙏

I'm quite ok. The pain hasn't gone but its milder. Still haven't found the cause which sometimes drives me nuts At one point I have convinced my self that its lyme disease, but ruled it out. There is huge community in US for lyme disease and if you believe everything they write in forums, lyme can be the cause of any mysterious illness even if your blood test is negative.

?Anyway my latest obsession is tuberculosis which usually affects lungs but also can be found in other organs. I guess I'm going to do a blood test to rule this one out also.

Ok that’s good to hear, yes it’s the worst thing when you can’t work out what the cause is so we can fix it (Very frustrating). For the first 18 months I was checking out all the forums and trying to figure out what it was but then realised that this was not a good thing for my mental health but hey when something like this affects our lives like this does it’s just a natural thing that you would do, especially when the medical community can’t work it out as well. I decided to take a break for a while but of course it got the better of me and I started to check them out again (obviously again due to doctors not being able to fix it), but it ended up getting me down again, that’s when I found this forum and decided to just stick to this one and no others, one of the best things I did for my mental state. Anyway stay strong and best of luck to you and everyone else on here and will keep the updates coming when more is known. 👍

Hey yes I hope everyone keeps updating their findings, stories on here as I know it can help us all, best of luck with your situation and stay strong 👍

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Oh just want to add it’s now going on three years for me and when I first started reading these forums certain men would say that they had what we all describe, some symptoms different and some different reasons how it started that “it eventually goes away after a few years, live healthy build your immune system up and also stop looking at it and get your head right and in time all will be fine”. At the time I didn’t believe obviously, at this stage it was only a month in so I was all over the place, what I’m thinking now is that I’m at that stage and again with my story I’m heading towards nerve damage from a bacteria infection, Im thinking maybe this is what it is NERVE DAMAGE at the end of the day for everyone whether it caused from unprotected sex, oral sex, masturbating to much, creams, soaps, penis pumps, skin infection, I could go on but with all the reading and research I have done and the doctors responses i have listened too it seemingly points to damage to our gland one way or the other. I think mentally we don’t want to except that this is damage and that maybe just maybe it will never go away and we all keep asking that question “WHY and HOW we can fix it” instead of accepting that its there and moving on. Once you accept and you start to live healthy again in mind body and soul, only then will it start to heal and clear, not saying this is easy to accept and is for everyone but for me I was the one who had unprotected sex with a girl I didn’t know and am the one to blame, I have now accepted  it and have moved on and with that and other positive things I can see improvement. Again please if this does happen to you obviously you have to go through all the motions which I must admit takes a long time but after a certain amount of time I think you have to just ACCEPT it and move on what ever the look is or the pain. Sorry for the long stories but I think much information for us all on this forum will be beneficial whether you believe or not, stay strong everyone and will update my specialist results once I get them. 👍

hey San,

it's been a while. Any news? Have you gotten better?

I still haven't found the cause, very frustrating ... ruled out tuberculosis. now leaning back to some HVP strain which would be logical explanation even without visible warts.

It has been a while, ok my update at this stage is I have been back to Infectious Desease specialist and as for all test results they all came back negative even advanced microplasma genitalium was negative, iv now had all tests multiple times over and have had everything that can be tested come back negative and to date it has been 3 and a half years since initial contact, the final conclusion for my problem is, it was a bacteria infection that I got from unprotected sex, this is why the Cyprofluxin killed that creature like feeling I mentioned in first post, but bacteria is a bad bugger and it has left me with damage to my gland/head and to be honest I think internally as well thus why the severe pain remained. At the final consult with IDS there was also a Sexual health Specialist who said she had seen this before in 3 other males who had received bacterial infections from unprotected sex and were left with severe damage to the head of the penis and that it does heel but can take a long time, there advice was to eat healthy, excercise cut stress down all the normal things they say lol. At this stage I’m at 95% heeled at the 3 and a half year mark, in the last 9 months I had already started to change my diet and eat healthy, started to exercise and also got into yoga and meditation which has done wonders, also at the beginning I did a body detox got on the probiotics really did a good flush and started new, best thing I ever did. I still do get the occasional bit of pain in the tip( meatus) but it is only after I wee lasts about a minute and also when I ejaculate lasts about an hour or so, But this does not happen all the time. Iv found now for me knowing I’m clean and moving on from this and giving the body a good detox/cleanse, eating the right foods exercising basically just getting the body back to good health it has done wonders. I still drink alcohol coffee and have a bit of bad stuff here and there but I keep it to a minimum as I said you still have to enjoy life. I definitely would say that if you have had this problem now for more then 12 months and you have had all the tests possible and you still have pain then I think you could put it down to damage whether it’s nerve damage and skin damage the gland is a sensitive thing that once hurt, damaged it can take a long time to heel if ever, hey we use it to release our waste so if the pipe is damaged your gonna know about it lol. Iv read a couple of others on here who have sort of done the same thing in getting there bodies right and have improved their conditions so again I think this is the main issue for everyone once all other possibilities are tested and ticked off the list, I did mention nerve damage in my last couple of posts as a possibility and have read on other forums that this is the main reason for everlasting pain and conditions in the Ureathra, as for me I am now 100% sure that it’s  bacterial damage that is slowly repairing itself and will one day get back to normal, I hope this helps you and others out there, good luck and stay strong everyone. 

I think you are right . This needs time to heal. As the urine keeps on irritating it. O noticed when I drink less water and pee less often the irritation levels have minized. I would like to get into the healthy eating pattern too. I can certainly say it has to do with diet since as soon as I eat JUNK FOOD my stomach reacts and the bacteria I had was a nasty one which only got cured from clintamicin ABX.

 Good for you, glad things are going in a positive direction...

 I'm about 7 months into a BAD bacterial infection (most likely lyme, myco or some other bacteria)....and I feel like things are going in a positive direction, feels like the backside of the infection after the climax.......lot's of symptoms subsided or minimized..THANK GOD....but still more time needed....if you have lyme (borrelia burgdorferi), they specifically like nerves, lymph system and collagen.....that fact explained so much about  my symptom picture..

Anyone with this sort of infection, these bugs are TOUGH to beat and do cause damage while the infection is going on, some cases worse than others...but the body can rebound and heal in incredible ways, so don't think what you're going through is going to be permanent.

You need to throw EVERYTHING you can at this, good eating, research all the supplements to fight bacterial infections/parasites....put anything stressful off for now and rest....do a few rounds of Abx, that's very important. Try Bactrim DS (this is a go to for skin infections, try to get the longest course possible) try doxycycline, minocycline, amoxicillin etc. etc. there are many but bactrim is pretty standard for anything skin related...

Bactrim DS really did the trick for me, brought me from a plateau of 75%(couldn't get past it) to like 95%, brought the bacterial load down and gave my body the fighting chance I think.. recently, I've been experimenting with ivermectin horse paste and albendazole, these are very common, world renown de-wormers, people use them for scabies and other mite like parasites also....they're very safe, ivermectin has been well researched... even without this bacterial infection issue, de-worming is a smart thing to do and should be a habit to do atleast once a year.... as mentioned above, I know the majority of my symptoms are bacterial related but I tried to cover all the bases, cause who really knows....could even throw some protocols for fungal infections in there also....bottom line, gotta reduce the load, make your body an inhospitable host, rebuild the immune system and DETOX... #1 easy thing for detox is standardized milk thistle capsules (1200mg) take every night before you go to bed. Drink fresh lemon water through out the day. If you have lyme, red root powder or extract helps with lymph drainage... since I started posted on here this spring, I've put about 6 months of research into all things infection related...STD's, Lyme/Morgellons and parasites..... pretty much the only positive I can about this experience is that it's changed my life in terms of knowledge, awareness and preparedness.... 

By the way, you mentioned you've tested negative for most of the common bacteria....well, the only reason why I think my case is lyme is because I expressed as Morgellons at the infective peak (98% of people showing Morgellons are positive for lyme bacteria, borrelia burgdorferi, still unknow if it's the cause tho) without those clues, I still would probably be treating this a fungal infection.... but again, nothing says this isn't a combo bacteria/fungal so I hit it with everything and it seems to be working @ 7 months into this...

PS... to get tested for lyme disease if VERY tough, they don't stay in the blood, they hide in tissue so getting a sample can be tough. One thing I learned from my research is that lyme disease and testing for it is surrounded by HUGE controversy in the medical community and people are suffering because of it, it's a deep rabit hole.. you need to choose your words carefully if mentioning it to a standard doctor.....best to see someone who is better researched in it...

Also, I've read 5 herbal books from a world renoun herbalist Stephen Buhner, the guy is basically the God of herbs and there was a quote that struck me, basically the fact is there are millions of bacterial strains that still have not been discovered, we've only figured out and studied a handfull so far in the past 100 years....so who knows what's out there.... as you guys are all finding out, unfortunately, getting a mysterious infection is not a simple quick trip to the doctor for that one magic pill... it takes time to figure things out and that's why so many are coming back with negative test results, they only test for like maybe max 20 strains of the most common stuff out there......