24M here, I wanted to share my experience so far of dealing with urethral stricture. So I had thinning of stream, burning pain while peeing and frequent urination for many months now. The stream used to be thin few times a day and seemed to be okayish at other times. Pain was almost absent sometimes but sometimes I used to feel the burning heat in the abdomen while peeing but throughout the time I had frequent urination. I got all the preliminary blood/urine test and ultrasound but everything was fine. The uroflometry test showed a very bad flow(I took the uroflometry right after ultrasound and I felt like my bladder was going to burst from filling it and waiting for the ultrasound in radiology, thanks to all the pregnant women in the queue). I think that caused the bad flow during uroflometry as I generally do better than that. Post that an ascending urehrogram indicated a stricture in my bulbar urethra. I was give 2 options by my urologist: DVIU End to end Urethroplasty After a lot of discussions with family and a second opinion I decided to go ahead with urethroplasty.
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