{"id":15574,"date":"2020-12-23T14:06:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T14:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=15574"},"modified":"2020-12-23T14:06:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T14:06:11","slug":"five-penis-problems-you-should-know-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/sexual-health\/five-penis-problems-you-should-know-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Penis Problems You Should Know About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Talking to your doctor about your painful penis is never an easy conversation, but it is important. If your penis is in pain during or after sex, you need to speak to your medical provider. It could be caused by an injury, a skin infection, a sexually transmitted infection or even from bike riding.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Genital Herpes<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you have an open lesion or blistering on your penis, you may have one of the herpes simplex viruses (HSV). HSV-2 causes genital herpes. HSV-1 is the type that causes cold sores. You may have a burning sensation before you have a break out. Antiviral medication can lessen the outbreaks and painful symptoms, but there is no cure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Peyronie\u2019s Disease<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A curvature of the penis, known as Peyronie\u2019s Disease, can cause your penis to hurt.\u00a0 This disease is caused by trauma to the penis. It can be caused by rough sex, or a sports related injury. If the penis is fractured, scar tissue can build up under the skin of the penis causing it to curve. Penile injections and medications can help correct the curvature with surgery being an option in some cases.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Lichen Sclerosus<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the skin on your penis has white patches on it and it itches, it could be lichen sclerosus. This disease can lead to skin tears on the penis. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Topical medication can help these symptoms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Pudendal Neuralgia<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are an avid bike rider and have pain in your penis or scrotal area, it could be pudendal neuralgia. Men who lift weights or do heavy lifting on the job The nerve becomes inflamed causing pain. Lifestyle changes, medication and physical therapy can all help relieve the pain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Urethritis<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A bacterial infection in the urethra can cause pain, burning and discharge. Antibiotics can usually clear the infection.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is crucial to discuss any painful penis episodes with your medical provider.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Talking to your doctor about your painful penis is never an easy conversation, but it is important. If your penis is in pain during or after sex, you need to speak to your medical provider. It could be caused by an injury, a skin infection, a sexually transmitted infection or even from bike riding.\u00a0 Genital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[730],"class_list":["post-15574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sexual-health","tag-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}