okay, first the remedy meds i bought today to try and help it and then my thoughts.
i've got four days left on my cipro, which is not really helping anyway. it helps for a bit, but then it comes back and on and on. this is while i'm actively on it, so it isn't like i stop taking it and it reoccurs, it just comes and goes. why pay 140 bucks every ten days for something that comes and goes regardless.
i decided, based on the failure of the antibiotic, in two forms (doxy and cipro), to rightly take matters into my own hands.
i basically went to a health food store and got:
fennel
fenugreek
saw palmetto
dandelion
a multi-vitamin somehow targeted for prostate health
and my four days of cipro

i'm going to eat the hell out of these for a few weeks and see if any of them straighten it out. if it happens to work, i'll let everyone know. it may be tricky picking out the working ingredient, but at least it's a start.
as far as the theory of squeezing, it makes sense, but i don't wear condoms with my girlfriend, i have to pull out and manually masturbate in the end either way. when we have sex, because of our new infrequency i usually ejaculate really strong and a good bit. there's never really any pain after though. maybe my prostate or that area is just weakened at the moment in it's state.
last month i sent her to the doctor for a shot of an antibiotic and doxy for 7 days to make sure it wasn't transferring back and forth between us.
i usually seem to hesitate more when doing things, because of the pain. where as, when i'm having sex i tend not to think of anything. my "late ejacualtion" during masturbation could very well be hesitation from the idea of pain. ejaculation HAS bothered the inflammed area afterwards, however only after masturbation, i think (hope).
pain after ejaculation seems like it would be stemmed from reflux or maybe irritation due to semen coursing through the inflammed area. i would think reflux is definitely more likely with masturbation as i've sometimes felt like i 'didn't get it all out'.
ibuprofen and aleve have been little help, so maybe i would need something stronger. i'm tempted to go a few weeks without sex or masturbation on this 'pill diet' and see what happens, but i fear that the first time i feel better and have sex it will come back and the whole thing would've been useless. of course, this may give time for 'whatever' is in there to work itself out or heal.
it's very irritated at the moment, but doesn't really hurt to the touch. where my testes face forward, not the top of it, but the front is where it actually hurts to the touch (just the right, the keft is sensitive, but has remained unaffected). it feels like where the epididimys or some compartment meets the testicle itself. i also noticed that the swelling somehow returns after ejaculation, so it's either swelling from irritation or reflux of some kind. reflux sounds logical in a certain context. obstruction has also crossed my mind, but i would think that it would happen if you were masturbating or having sex. the difference is really night and day to me as far as the irritation following either, as is the difference between sex with a hand and a vagina. maybe i'm just more uninspired when i masturbate lately. either way, i'm giving it up for a bit. inflammation, reflux, hhhmmmm . . .