If men have painful urination, it is recommended to go to the hospital for further urine tests to clarify the possible causes: 1. The most common is urinary tract infection, such as urethritis or cystitis, which can appear as mucosal inflammatory reaction, and manifest as congestion, edema, erosion, urine stimulation of the local inflammatory reaction mucosa can appear painful, accompanied by symptoms such as urinary urgency, painful urination or incomplete urination. 2. In severe cases, the patient may have an elevated body temperature and needs to go to the hospital for urinalysis to clarify. 2. Urethral stones, when there are stones stuck in the urethra, there can be persistent pain in the urethra or pain during urination, accompanied by abnormal urination, such as straining to urinate or incomplete urination, bifurcation and other symptoms, it is recommended to do further urethroscopy or ultrasound examination of the urinary system to further clarify the presence of stones. 3. 3.Bladder or urethral tumor can cause painful urination, the pain may not be obvious in the early stage, but in the later stage when the tumor further destroys the surrounding mucosa, the pain may gradually increase, and even blood dripping from the urethra or hematuria in the whole process may appear, it is recommended to perform CT or urethroscopy or cystoscopy of the urinary system to clarify.