Thanks for pointing out a big fact that I missed, that he's male. I don't know why I was under the impression that the OP was a female.
I have a urethral syndrome so I'm extremely familiar with IC and I've just never heard of IC in women connected with anything psychological.
There's only 1 problem with this story: The OP's symptoms didn't begin until 8 days after his sexual event. Doesn't that rule out that his "burning on urination" is connected to the event? This can be psychogenic in origin. There is some evidence that interstitial cystitis is concomitant with high stressors in the lives of those diagnosed with I.C. Also, I.C. occurs mostly in women.
Take a look at the doctor side of the forum: burning on urination is such a common "side effect" of these freaked out men visiting strippers and sex workers, having one-time sexual encounters, and more often than not engaging in safe sexual practices that there is a high probability it is psychogenic in origin. There are just a dump truck full of anxiety-ridden men out there having sex who obviously shouldn't be, since they clearly somatize and conflate normal bodily symptoms with STDs.
It makes total sense that these guys have genitourinary "symptoms": Since their anxiety is focused on their sexuality and sexual behavior, the "closest" bodily functions are those of the genitourinary tract.
Burning where? In your bladder? Without a physical etiology like blisters in your bladder or inflmmaton, then it's interstitial cysitis, which still isn't psychological. If you feel it as you're peeing then you're suffering some kind of urethral syndrome.
woman have that problem too after some sex. i don't know if it's the same. for women it's call Bladder infection. we either drink LOTS of cranberry juice or we take AZO ( brand of pill) for bladder infection.
I'm beginning to think there is a functional origin for all of you people getting your "burning on urination." It's genitally focused anxiety, as the doctors like to say. Google "psychogenic urination" or "interstitial cystitis" and see if you don't find yourself here.
i went through the same thing with the urge to urinate and burning sensations. those are things that by themsleves are not casued by stds. they are symptoms in correspndance with other symptoms. ie... lesions, discharge, burning when urinating ect. i tested negative for hsv and i asure you will too unless you got it from another occasion. the odds of you getting it from the encounter you describe is extremly low.
i hate to say it but, this is a mental thing.
I hope you guys are right. Like others on here, I am searching for answers hoping for better outcomes than what is possible. I understand that unless there are some really obvious signs (lesions) than I will not know for 3-4 months. It is just the sympton of the urge to urinate on a level that was previously intolerable in normal conditions has gone on for 9 days with no lessening from antiobiotics. Perhaps, I just have not taken the right antiobiotics yet to cure whatever infection I have... or HSV is the primary culprit. I suppose time will tell. Hoping for the best and looking for some relief.
Sounds like you need to get out more. Sitting home focusing on your urination habits doesn't equal up to Herpes!! You don't have it.