What does painful urination feel like?

Normally, girls will feel pain when urinating, while men will feel it is very smooth and have no symptoms when urinating. However, once men experience urethral pain when urinating, or pain in the bladder or urethra, they should pay attention that this may be a disease, such as urethral stones, urethral infection, cystitis, urinary retention, etc. These problems are the main factors causing pain during urination.

Dysuria in men refers to pain in the urethra, bladder and perineum when urinating. The pain can be mild or severe, often feeling like a burning pain, and in severe cases it can feel like a knife cutting. What are the common symptoms of urinary pain? Since urinary pain is a common symptom of some diseases, we should take active measures to prevent it. Common urinary pain phenomena include:

1. Sudden interruption of urination accompanied by pain or urinary retention: seen in bladder, urethral stones or urinary tract foreign bodies.

2. Difficult urination accompanied by distension and pain: This often indicates prostate hyperplasia in elderly men and can also be seen in urethral stones.

3. Stinging or burning pain during urination: It is more common in acute inflammatory stimulation, such as acute urethritis, cystitis, prostatitis, and pyelonephritis.

4. If there is obvious pain at the beginning of urination, or if there is difficulty urinating, the lesion is mostly in the urethra, which is common in acute urethritis. This is one of the common phenomena of urinary pain.

5. If there is obvious pain at the end of urination, pain still exists after urination, or there is a feeling of "empty pain", or pain occurs even without urination, the lesions are mostly in the urethra or adjacent organs, such as trigone inflammation, prostatitis, etc.

6. If there is pain at the end of urination and urgency, the lesion is mostly in the bladder, which is common in acute cystitis.

The above is an introduction to the common problems of urinary pain. Since there are many factors that cause urinary pain and there are many common symptoms of urinary pain, you must go to the hospital for a thorough examination when treating urinary pain, and then determine a specific treatment plan based on your individual condition and your own situation. Painful urination may be caused by some kind of infection in the urinary system. If there is obvious blood in the urine test, it may be a serious infection of the urinary tract.