What is the cause of needle-like pain in the female urethra when urinating?

In daily life, many women are prone to stinging pain when urinating, which greatly affects their normal life and work. There are many reasons for the stinging pain in the female urethra when urinating. This is a symptom caused by inflammation of the urethra. If you do not pay attention to private hygiene, it will easily lead to the growth of bacteria, which can easily cause stinging symptoms in the urethra, and you need to treat it in time.

1. What causes stinging pain when women urinate?

1. Urethritis

If a woman feels pain in the urethra when urinating, she may have urethritis. Urethritis is a common urinary disease, with more female patients than female patients. Urethritis in women mainly causes pain when they first start urinating. It is divided into acute urethritis, chronic urethritis, gonococcal urethritis and nonspecific urethritis. The specific situation requires going to the hospital for detailed examination. When you suffer from urethritis, you will experience symptoms such as difficulty urinating, redness and swelling of the urethra, and decreased immunity.

If a woman feels pain in her urethra when urinating, it may be caused by cystitis. The urethral pain caused by cystitis is generally a tingling sensation, with pain in the urethra or bladder area during or after urination. The difference between cystitis and urethritis is that the pain usually intensifies when urination is about to end. If you have bladder stones, the urine stream will be interrupted, so you can distinguish them.

1. If there is obvious stinging 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.

2. Pain at the end of urination and urgency are common in patients with acute cystitis.

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

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

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

6. Stinging or burning pain during urination: often seen in acute inflammatory stimulation, such as acute urethritis, cystitis, prostatitis, and pyelonephritis.