I am taking 400 mg ibuprofen 3 times a day with food for a one week duration. Ibuprofen is an inflamatory drug.
It can cause constipation so I take Metamucil every day around 5 pm. 2 heaping teaspoons in 10 oz. Of water. Also I have been using virgin olive oil topically for a long time applied into the meatus. I always feel better first thing in the morning and typically as my day wears on the pain and discomfort increases. After 10 weeks intra urethral clobetasol ( steroid) treatment regimen I had considerable relief but as I said earlier it was not curative and the discomfort , soreness and redness is returning. I’m not sure if a urethragram will show anything other than stricture/ scar tissue but I am able to void my bladder completely so whatever stricture is present is not so bad that it prevents flow.
I will need to discuss this with the doc next visit which is not until April. Possibly sooner through the patient portal but not as good communication as in person of course. I have already had 2 cystoscopies over the last year both showing scar tissue so I have been told that scar tissue can cause pain. I’m still a bit puzzled though.