The penis head externally has a conical shape. The skin on it is much thinner than in other parts of the body. In addition, the head has a lot of nerve endings, due to which it has an increased hypersensitivity. Therefore, when the head of a member hurts, the man experiences very unpleasant sensations, delivering a lot of discomfort.
Clinical features of pain in the head
There are many reasons for causing pain in the head. This manifestation is often accompanied by additional symptoms, focusing on which the expert identifies the specific causes of the disease. Soreness can appear during an erection, when the penis is in a state of increased arousal.
Warning! If you feel a pronounced soreness in the penis, accompanied by fever, chills, problems with urination, rashes on the penis, secretions and other uncomfortable manifestations, then you must visit the urologist.
Determine the cause by the nature of soreness
Various factors can cause pain in the penis from serious diseases to trivial bruises or excessive enthusiasm for masturbation. Therefore, a narrowly specialized specialist should be engaged in identifying the causes and diagnosing this violation. A qualified urologist can determine the source of the pathology by the nature of the painful sensations and the general clinical picture.
Cutting pains
If a man is concerned about pain sensations of a cutting nature, similar to injections with needles, then the cause of such a symptom may be a urethritis. With urolithiasis, when the concrements move along the urethra, pain also arises in the penis, and there are violations of the urinary process. The head of the penis hurts and, in the presence of habit, is protected by interrupting sexual contact. To eliminate such soreness, it is necessary to choose a safer method of contraception.
Cutting tenderness in the head may indicate an acute inflammatory process in the prostate. In this case, a man can feel pain during sex and urination, irradiating pain in the perineum, groin, testicles and pubic area, as well as the lower back. Also, the hypersensitivity of the penis head may be the cause of the sharp pain sensations, especially at the moment of ejection of the sperm. To eliminate this factor, you can use a special anesthetic gel.
Drawing soreness
Symptoms of painful sensations in the penis often indicate the development of Peyronie's syndrome, accompanied by the formation of plaques inside the cavernous body of the penis. With this pathology dense formations are probed in the back and sides of the penis. With Peyrony's syndrome during sexual intercourse, a man experiences severe pain.
Along with the seals, for the Peyronie's disease, the presence of curvature of the genital organ is characteristic. Sometimes the deformation is so pronounced that it causes the patients to abandon the joys of sexual activity. If such a defect is absent, then pulling tenderness can indicate chronic prostatic inflammation. Often pathologies of an infectious origin can be accompanied by pulling pains of a penis, a head, inguinal zone and a pubis.
This disease, like varicocele, is also characterized by a clinical picture associated with soreness of the pulling character and a burning sensation in the testicles, testes, penis.
Internal pain
Sometimes during sexual games inside the penis and the head of a man there is a feeling of painful discomfort. Such a phenomenon is often caused by traumatic factors that lead to scarring, namely scars and act as a painful source. To provoke soreness 
internal character can infectious lesions or inflammatory processes in a urethra. Also, the internal soreness of the penis and its head can be felt with urolithic pathology, when the stones begin to move.
Some men spend with a penis various mechanical manipulations like compression by a wire or a string. Such actions they justify the goal to achieve sexual pleasure or restore erectile functions, etc. Such actions lead to traumatization of the penis, which causes pain. When the damaged tissues heal, the pain symptoms pass.
Common causes of pain in the head
Painful symptomatology in the head is caused by a number of reasons:
- Anatomic abnormalities of the structural structure of the penis;
- Insufficient blood supply to the penis tissues;
- Damage to chemical, thermal or mechanical origin, all kinds of injuries;
- Sexual infections transmitted during sexual intercourse, as well as inflammatory processes in the genital area;
- Soreness in sex, caused by various kinds of disorders of the genitals;
- Various irritant factors located inside the penis, for example, foreign objects, salt crystals, concretions, etc.
Often, soreness is caused by various disorders in the small-vessel system that occur against the background of diabetes, atherosclerosis, endarteritis, etc. In such pathologies, the pain of the head is chroniccharacter and at times is accompanied by trophic ulceration, erosive formations or gangrenous process. There are quite a few reasons for this, so consider the most common in more detail.
Urethritis
Inflammatory processes in the urethra are among the most common diseases among male patients. The painful syndrome of the head speaks of the development of inflammation in the immediate vicinity of the outlet of the urethra. A similar pathological state develops against the background of sexual infections transmitted through the sexual way, or under the influence of nonspecific microorganisms.
The nature of the pain syndrome depends on the shape of the urethritis. The pathology of an acute character is accompanied by a similar soreness, with chronic urethritis the pains are more blurred and aching. For acute urethritis is characterized by the presence of puffiness and hyperemia of the head, the man is constantly experiencing a desire to scratch the penis from the inside. Chronic pathology is accompanied by pain, more like burning.
Balanoposthitis
Inflammatory processes are often exposed to the head with an extreme flesh, which indicates the development of balanoposthitis. For such a disease, a typical symptom is acute pain and scarring in the head, redness of the tissues, itching manifestations. Pathology is often accompanied by hyperthermia, inflammatory lesions of lymph nodes in inguinal localization. Later, erosive eruptions are formed on the skin of the head, sometimes a purulent coating appears on their surface.
If the balanoposth is not treated, then the pathology degenerates into a gangrenous form, when the scalp dies at the head. The therapeutic approach is based on the baths with chamomile, manganese and furatsilinovym solution. With the correct approach to therapy, the course of treatment usually does not exceed a week. In the presence of complications, antibacterial drugs may additionally be prescribed.
Phimosis and its varieties
Often painful sensations are caused by phimosis or paraphimosis. A similar pathology is typical of the narrowing of the flesh, because of which its exposure becomes impossible. Pain sensations provoked by phimosis, arise for the following reasons:
- Narrowed flesh mechanically squeezes the head, which leads to a characteristic soreness. With the onset of an erection, these symptoms become more pronounced;
- Complication of phimosis like the appearance of balanoposthitis. Because of the concentrations of smegma under the flesh, the pathogenic microflora begins to multiply, causing inflammatory processes, which are characterized by the presence of pain syndrome, itching, puffiness, hyperemia or burning.
When it comes to paraphimosis, the foreskin narrows behind the head, strongly squeezing it and making it difficult to enter into its blood tissue. Such a picture requires immediate medical intervention, because it is fraught with the development of necrosis of the head. In the absence of timely treatment, the body dies and is amputated.
Rupture of the bridle
Pain in the head also manifests a rupture of the tissues of the bridle. Such a phenomenon is usually accompanied by bleeding from the resulting wound. Usually, such a trauma arises from overly aggressive sex, too dry a vagina during sexual intercourse, frequent masturbation, etc.
When the edges of the wound grow together, a scar will form, which in the future will cause painful sensations in the head, especially during sexual intercourse. The choice of method of treatment depends on the degree of rupture and is based on a conservative approach or operational manipulation.
Cavernitis
Cavernous bodies inside the penis, which can be filled with blood during excitation, can also be affected by inflammation, then cavretitis is diagnosed. A similar pathological condition is often characterized by intense pain in the head. The cause of cavernitis is inflammation of the urethra, various traumatic injuries of the penis, with the infiltration of infectious pathogens from distant foci( eg, pulpitis, periodontitis, tonsillitis, etc.).
For cavernitis, the presence of tenderness in the head, urinary disorders, malaises, hyperthermia, etc., is typical. If the treatment is not started, an accumulation of purulent masses is formed in the inflamed foci, which is fraught with erectile dysfunction and dysfunction. Treatment is based on antibiotic therapy, if necessary, resort to surgical measures.
STD
Painful signs in the head area are also manifested in sexually transmitted diseases like chlamydia, gonorrhea, trichomoniasis, ureaplasmosis, etc. Usually, such infections are found in men prone to promiscuous sexual life. Along with the pain in the head, other symptoms such as eruptions on the penis, hyperemia, burning, abnormal discharge from the penis, itching, urination disorders, hyperthermia, etc., may be disturbing.
If there are several similar symptoms, you need to visit a venereologist. The specialist will conduct diagnostics and determine the most optimal therapy.
Traumatic pain factors
Often the cause of soreness of the head is a traumatic factor that can be caused:
- Too violent sexual life. In this situation, painful-aching pain can be accompanied by urinary problems. Soreness is set stronger when you touch the genitals. To eliminate a similar problem, it is necessary to take a break in the sexual life, then the pain will disappear on its own;
- Presence of neurotic masturbation. This condition is intrusive, patients are accepted to masturbate with almost every solitude. As a result, not only the head but also the entire organ starts to ache, and when trying to perform a normal sexual intercourse with a partner, problems like lack of erection may arise;
- When there is a lack of lubrication in the vagina. When in contact with a dry vagina, the head undergoes severe friction, which causes pain, redness and other discomfort.
Circulatory problems
Often, painful sensations in the head are accompanied by various kinds of abnormalities of penile blood supply, which appear against the background of diabetes, obliterating endarteritis, atherosclerotic vascular lesions. Such processes are characterized by slow development, so the painful symptomatology is also maturing gradually, manifesting itself initially periodically and briefly. Gradually, the pain becomes more tangible, constant, noisy-pulling, and on the surface of the penis appear trophic ulceration, erosion and gangrenous lesions.
A similar pattern is usually present on the skin of the extremities. A characteristic sign of vascular disorders in the penis is impotence.
What to do if you have such a pain
Men are often ashamed of such intimate manifestations, so do not rush to see a urologist. However, statistics show that in more than half of cases, inactivity in the event of such a pain in the future leads to impotence. Therefore, the principle of "self-passing" is inappropriate here.
Self-treatment in case of pain is unacceptable. Well, if it is just useless. Indeed, the true causes of pain can be further exacerbated, which is fraught with a mass of undesirable consequences. If there are any painful symptoms, you should contact the urologist. Only a specialized specialist is able to identify the causes of such manifestations and choose an effective and correct way to eliminate them.
