# Sudden shsrp, pinprick pain in penis **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 18, 2015, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-shsrp-pinprick-pain-in-penis/725508 "2015-07-18T11:57:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SeniorCitizen007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@SeniorCitizen007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeniorCitizen007)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-shsrp-pinprick-pain-in-penis/725508/1 "2015-07-18T11:57:57Z")
Pain in both heels, bouts of pain in one eye lasting for several minutes, slight pain in hips… Cause: Arthritis !!! Reactive arthritis, an autoimmune condition often brought on by food poisoning (I had a nasty bout of food poisoning a few months back). The above was deduced from a Google search. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-shsrp-pinprick-pain-in-penis/725508/2 "2015-07-18T12:14:51Z")
Arthritis in the eyeball? That’s something I haven’t heard before. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-shsrp-pinprick-pain-in-penis/725508/3 "2015-07-18T14:21:43Z")
Maybe, just maybe, Google search isn’t the best way to diagnose major medical conditions. Just sayin! Go to a Dr. Sooner, rather than later. Self diagnosing a pain in your eye based on an Internet search seems the very height of foolishness, to me. ( I am really, really attached to being able to see though!) ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-shsrp-pinprick-pain-in-penis/725508/4 "2015-07-18T17:12:54Z")
Well, I’m glad you figured it out. I was going to guess that someone is sticking a pin into a voodoo doll that looks a lot like you. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-shsrp-pinprick-pain-in-penis/725508/5 "2015-07-18T17:24:02Z")
Have any of your special friends been: [ul] [li]Native to Australia?[/li][li]Possessed of a tendency to go on the defensive and shut you out when threatened?[/li][li]Primarily nocturnal?[/li][li]Desirous to anoint new things?[/li][li]Able to communicate through a complex system of grunts, squeals, and sniffles?[/li][li]Omnivorous?[/li][li]Considered an invasive species in New Zealand or the Scottish isles?[/li][/ul]If you answered yes to one or more of those questions, you may be [del]dead[/del] dating a hedgehog. And we all know what you can never do with a hedgehog. (It would explain the thread title, anyway.) ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-shsrp-pinprick-pain-in-penis/725508/6 "2015-07-19T01:05:39Z")
Candiru? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sudden-shsrp-pinprick-pain-in-penis/725508/7 "2015-07-19T01:34:14Z")
And of course it’s the pain in your penis that has to be mentioned in the thread title. Go see a doctor.