Question: A couple of days ago, I suffered from painful hematuria. Went to the ER, bladder infection was negative. CAT scan came back negative - no stones. So, doctor gave me antibiotics to treat chlamydia and gonorrhea. But, no results back on whether or not it was an STD.

Shortly after leaving the hospital, the blood in the urine cleared up. I haven't seen any blood in my urine in the past 3 days.

I have also had chronic epididymitis my entire adult life. However, if I engage in sexual activity or masturbate at least once every 3 days or so, my epididymitis does not bother me. I've been suffering from epididymitis for at least the past 8 or 9 years, but my general routine when it flares up and is painful, is to just masturbate (or have sex) and take a nap. Once I wake up from the nap, the pain is gone.

Now, I haven't masturbated/ejaculated at all in about 4.5 days out of fear - ever since I saw blood in my urine, and my epididymitis is really starting to flare up and cause pain in the both the testicles and lower abdomen.

I'm scared that if I masturbate, the hematuria may come back - even though I haven't seen really any blood in my urine since my trip to the ER. Is this a reasonable fear? Could masturbation cause my hematuria to return? Or should I be okay now? Is there any other way to relieve the epididymitis pain?