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

2-5 days ---> tingles and nibbles at tip (ignored)

5-10 days ---> tingle turned into irritation/heat/buzzing/raw pain in HEAD/TIP (thought would ride it out)

10-14----> Major raw pain in head, extending into Urethra, inflamed/tight, infected feeling, came down with 1-2 days of flu symptoms, chills, sweats, achy joints etc. Visited clinic. Was prescribed Azo and Cefix, tested for Chlam, Gonno, HIV, HSV-1/2, Syphillis = all negative. Did NOT have any discharge, lesions or any outward signs.

14-28 days, slow recovery, swelling and inflammation subside, Urethritis still present but 2/10 pain. Some days better, some days will flare, at night during sleep always worse.

1.5 months, most symptoms gone except for some ever so slight tingling/irritation at very tip now and then, feels like nerve damage almost... however, everyday seems to be improving. Feel 95% back to normal (helped from my own treatments  outline further below)

**side notes, I also concluded that because I was rough on my stick during the experience, I caused some micro trauma to the tissue in addition to whatever else was going on. Research, "grip of death". Definately more mindful of that now...

- during the buildup of pain, noticed I felt tired and run down, almost like I had a cold or that feeling of fighting off an infection. I would get a warm/flush/sensitive feeling in my left inner thigh...the pain/irritation would almost jump from thigh to urethra within a few hours time... then in later stage to my prostate...

- about a week into the course of antibiotics, I noticed the head of penis looked really blotchy (red and purple) and leathery looking (like an avocado surface). Really alarmed me because it looked like a nasty snake head...meatus was slightly red sometimes also, slightly inflamed. As mentioned, a triangle shaped patch of redish (irritated, inflamed) looking skin on top of head also. Shows worse sometimes, othertimes almost goes away.Cont.

Same thing i am suffering from!!!! This incident happened approximately 8 months ago - I had sex with a woman who had a bad reputation for sleeping around a lot. I used a condom however the condom broke midway and didn't realize it until we were done with having sex. When i saw the condom broke i freaked out. I took a bottle of Scotch/whiskey and washed my penis (like an idiot) with it hoping that i wouldn't catch any diseases. Less than 2 days later my penis was feeling different and got a rash and tight forskin (either from her or the whisky)

I went to the doctor around a week later and i got tested for most common STDs - All came back negative. The doctor said i have balanitis and he gave me some anti-fungal cream and i did that for a few months and not much of a difference happened, after several months with no change i was prescribed a stronger anti-fungal cream and steroid creams and still no change. After doing my own research, i purchased products that would help and nothing really worked.

There is tight forskin. The head of the penis does get swollen when i masterbate and penis gets super dry  my main problem is the rash like look (see pic)! I have tried using almost all products drying up my bank account yet, nothing works! I have even switched to natural products like coconut oil, Aloe-vera, Castor oil and even tried Tea tree oil that almost burnt my penis as it was potent. I even stopped using any products for a few days to see if it was an allergic reaction, yet nothing has changed. Sometimes it turns red other times it turns brownish, but mostly red.

This has greatly affected me mentally! I keep saying im going to start a new leaf and forget about all this and focus on what is important in life, but its hard to do when you got to take a p**s every couple hours. 

I feel most of us will have a cure for skin related issues in another 8 years time! by that time, technology would be at a stage where all it will take is a spray or a tiny tube can contain nanites or some kind of miracle technology.

Either in 8 years or maybe im watching too many futuristic movies.... Either way it will come eventually (maybe even less than 8 years) however when it does come out it there is high probability that this will be super expensive so start getting rich or find away to get rich. Concentrate on your goals and this will be a possibility. Focus on what matters now rather than what could be. Will update you all on my progress. Be strong, we all once were, we cant let this be the fall of us. We are much stronger than this. 

I have been watching this thread for several months now and am ready to add my saga. After reading through lots of the responses, I am convinced there are a range of disorders/problems contained so there can't be a single solution to all of them,  I have been dealing with mine since mid January - 4 months now, and the good news - knock on wood - is that it seems to be finally gone for me. So read on or go to the bottom to see what has helped me the most.

Here are some details: I am 53, circumsized caucasian. I use viagra, and I have had unprotected sex with 4 different women over the last 5 years or so. My problem occurred the day after I had typical vaginal intercourse in January, and I developed a dark red, circular/oblong patch of the right side of the glans about 11mm long and 6mm wide. Like many have described, it was very irritated and made it difficult to walk. I felt the tingling/throbbing/pins-and-needles that some of you have described and i indeed felt a little discomfort in urination, but almost more of a restriction that caused me to dribble when done which was new. I thought I had really done it now and contracted a nasty std. In retrospect, I recall that I had felt a little discomfort in urination and ejaculation before it "came to a head" with the irritation. After a week or so of suffering, I went to my GP and got a full lab panel done, and like most of you here, they all came back negative. And on the day I went, the symptoms had subsided so they didn't look all that bad for the Dr. She surmised it was contact dermatitis.

That's when I found this thread and it dawned on me that I might have a fungal/candida infection. I contacted the GP and she prescribed a 7 day run of flucanazole 100mg daily and an anti-fungal and steroid cream Clotrimizole and Betamethasone. After the 4th day of the pills, my symptoms finally subsided and I thought I was done with it. But within a few weeks, it came roaring back. I let my GP know and she referred me to a urologist. I kept using the cream but realized it did nothing. I actually bought some over the counter yeast infection cream which seemed to relieve the pain a little more than what the Dr prescribed.

Right after Christmas, I had a nasty cold, upper respiratory infection, and I took a self-prescribed z-pack antibiotic cycle. When the rash was really at it's worst, I also had the mouth sores, so it made sense that I had contracted thrush. (That's another retrospect realization.)

Between the time I re-developed the irritation and seeing the urologist, I traveled out of the country on business, and while there, I went to a pharmacy and bought 5 150mg of fluconazole since my GP did not want to prescribe me more until the urologist. I took them daily, and even though they were hard on the guts, the symptoms went away again. By the time I got in to the specialist, once again the symptoms had subsided.

By the end of the week however, the same red spot appeared and I had symptoms again, but not as bad as the initial outbreak. I contacted my GP and let her know that the urologist thought I had balantitis and prescribed me the exact same cream that I had already tried. I told her that the fluconazole seemed to work and that maybe I needed a longer cycle. I also asked her to prescribe Elidel cream - because I had seen it mentioned here on this thread. I got a call from my pharmacy to come get my two new scripts. She provided me a 2 week cycle of fluconazole and a new cream. 

I decided to wait on taking the pills and see if the cream would have any effect on its own. After about 5 days of Nystatin cream twice a day, my symptoms have almost all disappeared for the first time in 4 months. I may be jinxing myself and have it blow up tomorrow, but I honestly feel better now than I have all year. 

I know that this won't work for everyone, but this has come as a real relief for me. So for those who have similar symptoms and some treatments haven't worked, keep trying and stay on your Dr to let you have different meds.