Yeah, I know you're not at that age yet as most of the guys we see in the clinic. Had to be a special case for you. In fact, I saw a 29 year old today who said he had an enlarged prostate, as per his primary doctor. He had misunderstood "inflamed" to mean the same as "enlarged" but it was a real shocker for ten minutes before the doc put his finger in his ass and told him it was inflamed but not enlarged like older men typically have.
Bacterial infection but this guy has been dealing with it for two years with no recourse. So a stronger course of antibiotics were ordered and this guy might be taking them for the rest of his life. Must be some congenital malformation of his urinary tract that just makes him prone to prostatitis? I'll have to look it up but that was the youngest patient I've seen so far in the OR or in the clinic during this urology rotation.
I saw a device I never knew existed and has a hilarious description. I didn't believe the assistant explaining the device, in layman terms, when he said it but I looked it up and it's exactly as he described it. It's called a Urocuff that measures the intensity of your bladder's contraction when urinating and also measures flow rate of urine. You have electrodes placed just above your bladder and then below your butt cheeks to measure the bladder contraction. Then you have basically a plastic mouthpiece for your dong and it creates a vacuum and sucks the urine out as you piss to measure flow rate, where it collects the urine in a container below.
Really cool way to measure it but still the patient looked so defeated when it was basically described to him as a cock pump with electrode sensors to measure his bladder's contraction force.