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What Do Itchy Red Bumps On The Penis Indicate?

Hi! For the last couple of days I’ve been experience a lot of weird things happening to my penis. At first, the head of my penis was red and extremely bumpy. I got scared and it was hard to pull back the foreskin of my penis since I’m uncircumcised. The small bumps went away and now the head of my penis is a pinkish-red. It started to peel two days ago and now when I wash my penis with soap as I do every day, I start to feel a sharp pain but it eventually goes away. The one thing that is truly bothering me is the ITCH. It does NOT want to stop itching. When I pee it doesn’t burn; i don’t have any sores; my penis is just really red and only hurts when I force the foreskin down hard; the part of the penis that is connected to the part of the head that isn’t visible, and the foreskin is red as if it was a cut. By the way, I’ve never had sex, so what might this be?
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These symptoms and signs are suggestive of STD especially if there is associated pain, fever, urethral discharge and recent sexual intercourse. So this is the first thing to rule out by doing STD testing. Second, it may be sign of uro-infection or urinary stones and some other genital infection but this is less common. In every case, antibiotic therapy may be required so test should be done as soon as possible so that appropriate treatment can be started. Till that try to drink plenty of fluids, avoid sexual intercourse and rest.

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What Do Itchy Red Bumps On The Penis Indicate?

Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. These symptoms and signs are suggestive of STD especially if there is associated pain, fever, urethral discharge and recent sexual intercourse. So this is the first thing to rule out by doing STD testing. Second, it may be sign of uro-infection or urinary stones and some other genital infection but this is less common. In every case, antibiotic therapy may be required so test should be done as soon as possible so that appropriate treatment can be started. Till that try to drink plenty of fluids, avoid sexual intercourse and rest. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.