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Painful erections
Painful erections is a symptom that can be due a number of medical conditions, that can involve external or internal abnormalities. It is known as priapism if the painful erection lasts for more than four hours and is caused by blood flow problems.
Dr. Keegan Duchicela reviewed this
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A 47-year old asked:
How to relieve painful erection?
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A 29-year old asked:
What could cause painful erections?
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A 30-year old asked:
Painful erections lately; is something wrong?
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A 29-year old asked:
What can cause a painful erection along with a headache?
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A 38-year old asked:
What can cause a painful erection for 3-5 hours?
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A male asked:
What do I do if i wake up with a painful erection that won't go down?
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A 47-year old asked:
Can catheters cause painful erections?
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A 16-year old male asked:
I am experiencing painful erections. Erections for no reason ?
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A 47-year old asked:
What could cause my boyfriend to get painful erections after 1 orgasm?
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A 20-year old male asked:
I have painful erections. No penile curvature.
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A 28-year old male asked:
I DONT TAKE ANY PILLS I DONT TAKE VIAGRA WHY DO I WAKE UP WITH PAINFUL ERECTIONS ?
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A 29-year old male asked:
I DONT TAKE ANY MEDICINE I DONT TAKE VIAGRA SO WHY DO I WAKE UP IN THE A.M. WITH PAINFUL ERECTIONS ?
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A 40-year old female asked:
What could a painful erection and dark colored semen? It is in a man over the the age of 50 who is not very sexually active it that helps at all
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A male asked:
I have been circumcised last week Thursday, I have been getting painful erections since, please help me, I am in real pain, what meds can I use 2 stop?
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A 46-year old asked:
Circumcision and painful erections. How do you prevent those after circumcision?
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A member asked:
My boyfriend has a problem every time we have sex he has a really painful erection however when he masturbates he doesn't suffer from the same pain?
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A 52-year old female asked:
Since having a catheter a year ago my husband has painful erections, could this be caused by scar tissue?
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A 46-year old asked:
What to do if I have erections during my sleep which is so sore. What can I do to stop this painful erections and does the erections have effects?
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A 35-year old female asked:
My bf has a very tight foreskin which leads to painful erections could this cause anorgasmia?
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A 18-year old male asked:
I am experiencing painful erections, hip pain and pelvic pain ?
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A 21-year old male asked:
How to treat my painful erections? I have taken a ceftrixone dose yesterday to treat a possible gonorrhoea infection, which helped stop the discharge. But i get painful erections and there are some hard veins on my penis. should i be worried?
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A 28-year old male asked:
How can you tell if it's an STD or UTI when you experience yellow discharge, burning pee, and painful erections?
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A 24-year old male asked:
I am experiencing frequent urination, leaking urine (worsened by: after exercise) , urinary hesitancy, penis pain, urinary retention, penis inflammation and painful erections. The following also describe me: Sudden urge to urinate, Leg numbness, and Scro
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A 33-year old male asked:
I had holmium laser lithotripsy in my left kidney, there was a lot of scar tissue in urethra so they had to leave a catheter in for one week now it has Been one week since catheter and stent removal still have painful erection/retrograde ejaculation?
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A 35-year old male asked:
Male Spongy urethra pain on touching. Worse on masturbation. Improves on stopping masturbation. CBC ,urine culture normal. No nitrites or leukocyte erestrase. No discharge. Post Masturbation dysuria. Stress makes pain worse.painful erection sometimes?
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A 46-year old asked:
Can prolonged erections be painful?
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A 44-year old asked:
Why is it painful to have an erection that lasts for a long time?
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A 33-year old male asked:
Dr please any help for poor erection and painful urination?
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A 25-year old male asked:
I am 25 yrs old. I am having trouble to get a hard erection, it is hard enough for sex, but not as hard as before, and I rarely wake up with an erection. I also tried a pleasure ring, but it was painful and removed it. Could it be I broke something?
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A 43-year old male asked:
I've been having an severe erection for about 8-9 days and I haven't taken anything I woke up in the morning and there it was and it's getting extremely painful?
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