In news:sci.med.prostate.prostatitis, Jason@nospam.com (Jason) posted on
Sun, 27 May 2007 00:13:04 -0700:

Yeah, I've had one of those before a few years back.  I remember what it
felt like.  This is nothing like that.  There is no blood in the urine, at
least not that I can see.  When I had a bladder infection before, at times
the stream would run a reddish color for as long as the evacuation was
taking place.  This is clear or a faint yellow, and there's no blood at the
end.  This was coming from around the base of the penis on the inside,
maybe about an inch deeper than the base.  That's where the pain was, too.

I had sprayed water into my urethra with a shower sprayer and there must
have been too much pressure.  In the original post, I mentioned that I had
squirted a certain liquid down in there, but didn't say what it was.  I was
a little too embarrassed to admit it, but now I realize it wasn't that
liquid, but the water from the sprayer.  The liquid was tabasco sauce. That
didn't do anything.  It was all that damned shower sprayer.

I probably tore the lining off inside, or maybe the pressure might have
bloated it so much that it "popped," for lack of a better word, resulting
in a rather deep wound that bled slightly for probably a week, hence the
discharge that might have been such a faint shade of red that it only
looked like a deep yellow because of the lighting in my room.  Anyway, that
has since stopped and the pain has subsided.  There's probably a little
scar tissue developing because when I tug on the tip, I can feel an
unusual, but not painful stretching sensation where the pain had been
during urination.

I remember I once had a bladder infection that spread to one of my
testicles.  I believe it was the left one.  It swelled to three times its
normal size and developed some kind of hard shell around it... either that
or it was just so swollen that it felt hard.  There was a soft area in the
back, and the front side was extremely sensitive.  Just a light tap felt
like I'd been kicked by steel-toed boots.  I never saw a doctor about it,
but at the time my mental state was questionable, and I didn't think there
was anything seriously wrong.  I remember when I ejaculated, it was mostly
blood.  Nowadays that testicle is a little more sensitive than the other,
and seems to hang kind of funny and lower than it should.  And the area
where it attaches to the little tubes (whatever they're called) seems to
have a little more "material" around the connection than the other.  It
seems to work, though, if the volume of ejaculate is any indication.

Ouch!  I've cut my tongue on a straw before!

I understand.  It's strange what sexual frenzy will do to the mind.  We
lose all sense of reason, it seems.  I remember about 12 years ago I forced
some Veg-All down my urethra and into my bladder.  Sure, it felt cool going
in, but then I needed to pee later on and nothing would come out.  I
suddenly realized that that little opening is much smaller than a little
chunk of vegetable.  I panicked.  I just knew I was going to have to go to
the hospital and have surgery and be the laughingstock of the whole staff,
or hear them shame me for what I'd done to myself.

I became so distraught that I broke out into hives.  I nearly threw up.  I
was walking from my bedroom toward the bathroom again.  I became dizzy and
started to black out.  I staggered toward the living room to grab a towel.
Something told me I was about to explode something out of my bladder.  If I
was going to pass out and pee all over myself, I wanted to have a towel
under me.  I managed to throw the towel out and lay on my side.  I started
heaving so hard my head was pounding.  I'm sure if I'd had a mirror, I
would have been as red as a beet.  But as I heaved, I felt something pop
through the bladder opening.  A little piece of english pea, probably about
1/4th of one pea, spilled out onto the towel.  That offered some relief.
After a couple of more heaves, the rest came out.  I had no more problems
after that.  Within five minutes, all the hives disappeared without a
trace.  I've never shoved food into my bladder again.  I only hope that if
I ever get kidney stones, this experience may help me deal with it in some
way.

But thanks for the input.  Since I work so much, I never actually got
around to going to the doctor yet.  The discharge has slowed, and now it's
more of a clear color, what little there is.  While I can't let the urine
flow full-force yet, I'm able to let it flow more quickly with less
discomfort, and strangely enough, it comes out faster than it did before
all this happened.  I never developed a fever or any of the other symptoms
of an infection.  I think I'm going to be fine.  If things keep going the
way they are now, I'll probably be back to normal in a few more days.

Ty