I didn't read the replies, sure there's lots of interesting posts. For me the procedure was a piece of cake, just weird. The three years after were pretty rough and still do this day if I catch a cold my right nut will ache for days. Yall ever see rabbits breed? After the male is "done" he falls to the ground and flops around... yeah that was me for about 6 months afterward, immediately "after" it felt like a channel lock pliers clamping down with gorilla force on the right nut, talk about negative incentive but I still had the drive so kept trying lol. It gradually went away over time with small flare ups here and there. Doc just kept giving me antibiotics for some reason and sending me on my way. After that it ached constantly nonstop for a few years.
The anti-biotic? Well... IF the thought was it could be from infection being in the area of your operation, which is near the Prostate, apparently it's harder to kill off something if it gets in there, because supposedly the blood flow into that particular region, in terms of it carrying in the anti-biotic, is not as good, especially when we sit a lot for a job.
As a young man, early to mid 20's, there was a period where I was suffering and felt like I was never "done" after taking a piss. My bladder wasn't voiding, would be what they'd say clinically.
The GP doc had me on an anti-biotic for a month! And here's the weird deal... while I was on them... that symptom subsided by quite a lot! Then after I was done... it came back! So then this time... he puts me on freakin' Floxin, which is a really powerful broad-spectrum antibiotic and is like 16 buck PER PILL!
Again... while taking the antibiotic, strangely the symptoms would greatly diminish. Then... afterward.. came right back! So he realized that a bacterium can't be the cause, so he referred me to a urologist. As you can imagine he wouldn't think to do that initially cause here I was a very healthy young man working out regularly.
So then appt with a Urologist. He does an endoscope (YEEESH!! Something you'll NEVER forget!) and finds that inside my bladder looks fine. Nice and pink, no redness. So... he correctly guesses that my issue was because of the smooth-walled muscles in the bladder twitching and being hyper-motile.
At this time I was in the beginning of my career as a programmer. As well as training regular at the gym. And as you might imagine, I started to adopt the habit of consuming coffee and other stimulants related to both these activities.
So two things... first of all, needed to GREATLY cut back on intake of stimulants. And I hazard to guess a CRAP-TON of Americans need to do this. Secondly... some lifts, if done improper can contribute to this problem/feeling because there are these two thin muscles which pass right by your urethra which, if subjected to hypertrophy in a certain way due to improper poor form while doing various lifts, can grow and thus exert pressure on your urethral tube.
Ultimately he gave me an Rx for Ditropan (aka Oxybutynin Hydrochloride, which is a derivative of the Nightshade plant.. the same poison used in that Romeo and Juliet play, just to much lower doses) This compound works to stop that hyper-motility and twitchiness of those smooth-walled muscles (i.e. NOT the ones WE can control, the autonomous ones).
So first, if I were you, I'd experiment with cutting out all caffeine and similar stimulants. See if it has an affect. Then if no change. Goto urologist and explain the problem, and maybe ask if in this instance something like the Ditropan might help?
