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Q: Perineum / rectal - can't empty bowels w/ fecal retenention

asked by: Rick1287 on November 2nd, 2007

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hi,
ive been having this problem for quite some time now about 8 months now. i notice that i cant empty my bowels and have some fecal retention afterwards and my rectum is tender and a bit soar, sometimes when i defecate it burns. it also feels like i am sitting on a football or something in my perineum and rectum. when im sitting down i feel this tingling sensation come up through my perineum and rectum area whenever i try to switch positions i can still feel a tiny tingling sensation. i have this perineum/nerve throbbing maybe prostate? whenever i squeeze my pelvic muscles to evacuate my bowels and defecate. i also have a wierd sensation at the tip of my penis and can feel the wierd rectal/perineum pressure when i touch the tip. most of the time this problem is in my rectum but also like mentioned travels to the perineum and other areas most likely through nerves or other factors. i forgot to mention that its also difficult to urinate and burns a bit sometimes, and i might have some urine retention. ive thought about main symptoms disorders and problems and have ruled out most because i dont have the typical problems but am still wondering whats causing this underlying problem. i thought i had either prostatitis, prostadynia, anal fissures, levator ani syndrome, anal abscess, hemroids, perineal abscess, pudendal nerve entrapment, cryptitis, proctitis? however, i was checked and did have an anal fissure and perhaps an ulcer, but this doesn't explain all the other onset problems in the above mentioned. i cant seem to link my problem to any which one because my symptoms arent typical but nevertheless still present and just dont seem to go away, ive been thinking i will just probably have to live with these bothersome symptoms forever if nothing seems to help. but most importantly the worst onset of these symptoms is the perineum and rectum golfball-like pressure 24/7! this hardly is relieved by sitting, standing, laying down or whatever. if anyone has heard similar information about this type-like problem advice would be very much appreciated Wink

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ianb

replied on November 11th, 2007

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Ianb

Hi Rick1287

I believe I am suffering from the same problem, your symptoms are the same as mine. I was first treated for hemorroids and then I was told that I had an anal fissure and I have been using nitro 0.2 for over a year. Sometimes it seems to be healing and I can't feel much and then it comes back again.As you say it'smore the pressure and discomfort than a pain as such and the tenderness extends into the perineal area. I keep thinking about prostate trouble as I know I have prostate enlargement at my age but I am still inclined to blame the fissure. I can get a good night's sleep but then it starts up again in the morning.

Rick1287

replied on July 2nd, 2008

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Has anyone else experienced similar rectal, perineal pressure, throbbing and tingling? Feeling like a golfball is betweem your perineum/rectum?

richard90

replied on May 31st, 2009

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Yes, I have the same thing. This has been with me for 4 years. I was constipated for 2 weeks, took a laxative. And when i finally went, the bowel movement was so large it triggered my prostate. On that day I lost feeling in my penis, i get this wierd tingling sensation that goes up my perineum and constant pressure(Almost like something is just sitting there, and rubbing it doesnt really help. Nothing does, and you try to make it go away but you cant.), like crawling of the skin. almost like gas bubbles move up my perineum. I no longer get the feeling to poop, been living off laxatives for 4 years(Magnesium Citrate). When I touch my penis i can feel where the nerve is damaged in my perineum/rectum. I no longer get correct blood flow threw my penis or even really feel if I get an erection. and no doctors know whats wrong with me.

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matt96

replied on September 23rd, 2009

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ouch.. I've got something similar...

I have swelling in the taint area on the left side. My buthole is also always swollen. It's weird... looks fine on the outside but it's like the inner ring is swollen. Always constipated and the more time goes on, the more it's harder to poo. Pain in perinium is a lot worse after sex & it gets very swollen during sex without pain until after... tip of my penis is also swollen. All started when I was 16 and I'm 21 now and things just keep getting worse. Doctors are pointless haven't got any help there.

Does any of this sound familiar?

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KGinTO

replied on October 24th, 2009

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I have had the same problem since 2004 and been to about 5 different physicians who cannot pinpoint the problem. It is like a ring of scar tissue exists right up inside my hole and it is sometimes as though the hole is swollen shut from the inside.

There is never a feeling of completion after BM. I used to go 3x per day but there was never a burning, discomfort, cramping feeling afterwards as there has been the last few years.

There is also a feeling of trapped gas and reflux, so much that often I burp up chunks of food. This may be unrelated but it is often worse after sex/ejaculation, believe it or not.

Sex seems to make a difference. While there is no pain/discomfort during, there does seem to be some sort of internal congestion that goes right from under the ribcage down thru the perineum to rectal area that happens almost every time.

Earlier in the decade, I had (stupidly) developed a practise of "holding off" as long as I could and was sometimes erect for several hours before release. While I am certain this has caused these problems, the doctors I have seen are all skeptical.

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Rick1287

replied on November 15th, 2009

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To richard90, matt96 and KGinTO. All of what you're explaining is what I experience more or less. It also feels like my rectum is clogged blocked off and the right it feels like my prostate is swollen and enlarged, as well as a clogged rectum. I also get those gas bubble/tingling sensations. i have trapped gas and reflux. i have had the trapped gas and reflux for about 6 years now. however this deep rectal, perineal and penile tip gas bubbling/tingling feeling started may 2007. it has been about almost 3 years with this problem. sex i can sometimes feel my rectum contract and feel the nerves working from my rectum and penis during ejaculation not always depending where i am sitting and the position. i am convinced my prostate is swollen as well as the rectum clogged. i have heard in prostatitis it is similar like sitting on a golf ball which i experience. i have not ejaculated blood. the strange thing is i seem to have less nerve sensation in my penis sometimes it feels like i can ejaculate quickly if i rub hard and sometimes i can't feel anything and it will take forever to ejaculate my erection isnt as hard as it used to be. i generally have to contract my pc muscles in order to maintain erect and ejaculation i think the clogged and swollen rectum/prostate has an effect of some sort. i am convinced drinking and squeezing too hard at ejaculation could have messed up my rectum, perineum, prostate and possibly pc muscles where i feel that there is a "boggy-swollen" feeling in my rectum and penis all day, and to my perineum to a certain extent. bowel evacuation is never fully complete and feels like not everything is out of my rectum completely like stuck deep inside the rectum but sometimes this isn't the case.

thilborn

replied on November 22nd, 2009

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chiropractor

Looking for a solution for a different problem with my child and stumbled upon this. Have any of you tried going to see a chiropractor? could be possibly pinched nerves. Nerves from the L5 and lower areas of your spinal cord go down into that area. If it is compressed it could be causing you trouble with feeling and with your bowels moving properly. This is what I have had to take my daughter to the chiropractor for, she can't move her bowels properly and can't feel when she goes. She is improving since going to the Chiropractor. Hope you all find a solution! God bless!

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