Sperm in Urine Sample

Has a doctor ever told you they saw sperm cells in your urine sample?

This hasn't happened to me personally but, curious if it has happened to anyone.

I don't think you will get much of a specific reply on this one.If you are requested to submit another urine specimen. More than likely they will use a blanket term such as "contaminated" or "compromised". Even the doctor will not typically know what happened beyond those words.

It happens about 5 times in 100, in my practice experience. I did not consider it "contamination" and usually wouldn't report it back to the patient to avoid embarrasing them. Can happen if the sample is taken soon after ejaculation (a couple hours) or if there is retrograde ejaculation.

It can also happen if you undergo the 3cup testing… Urin sample before and after expressing the prostate. They do the test to check for prostatitis. Had it twice since I have issues in thst department. First time the doctor was a bit rough and I ended up ejaculating just a little bit during the exam. It surprised and embarrassed me. My penis was soft/semi, bit it kept on spitting some clear/milky watery fluid: definitely not normal semen.

In another lifetime almost I went to the local health department to be tested for a possible std. I advised the nurse there might be semen in my urine sample, but she wasn't concerned in the least.

Working in an ED, yes, I have seen many urinalysis results with microscopic semen noted in their urinalysis results. Typically when I see that I joke among my co-workers, "wonder what he was doing before he came in to the ED." Of course, there is no reason to discuss this with the patient as this is a commonality and not an abnormal finding. The first, and sometimes second urination after ejaculation is going to have some residual semen in the urinary tract.

This can happen if you ejaculated and haven't urinated before producing the urine sample. Another possible explanation is retrograde ejaculation where the semen is released into the bladder instead of through the penis. In that case your entire ejaculate would end up expelled in your urine.

Sperm in female urine sample? Happens all the time. We ignore it. It makes no difference in the results. Our female lab techs just smile and say "It's nobody's business".

When I was in practice it was not uncommon to see sperm reported in urine specimens but at some point the lab we used made a policy change to not comment on reports if sperm was noted. Fine with me because I can't imagine any clinical value of reporting it

I had it happen once in an ER urinalysis after a car wreck. In the context of the situation then, it was no big deal for me, or any of the healthcare providers I met that day.

I am all but certain that there were sperm in my recent urine sample (STD test), because I got the hardest erection during the abdominal exam (sadly I was fully clothed, and he didn't do a genital exam), and when I went into the restroom to produce the urine sample afterward, I had a huge wet spot of precum in my underwear. The lab report simply said negative for chlamydia and gonorrhea, and I don't think Labcorp shares any more detail with the doctor than I got in my PDF.

It would be great, though, if in my follow-up he mentions there was sperm in my urine sample, so he wants to run a bunch of tests to see if I'm having retrograde ejaculations, at which point I'll have to confess that the likely culprit was my erection when he was palpating my abdomen. I'm not that lucky, though.

It has never happened to me to find sperm in my urine, but what they have found in my urine is blood

I have no idea if there has been nsome in any of my urine specimens. But I suspect it may have been present a couple of times. I get the same lab results as my doctor, and have never seen it mentioned, positive or negative, so I assume it’s not reported.

This has never happened to me before. But I usually extract my own sperm sample as soon as I get home from the real doctor.

I've not had it explicitly reported as semen in urine sample, but one time when I had to provide a "first sample of morning" urine sample to check kidney function - looking for protein; I did get a message back that the results seemed rather unusual for me & could I provide another sample, and ensure I don't ejaculate after my last urination the night before 😳. Result from that test came back perfectly normal. The next couple of times they repeated the test, they did remind me not to ejaculate - but not had that reminder since.

I have a minor case of retrograde ejaculation, so I always have traces of semen in my urine. I’ve never had any doctor comment that it was significant in any way.

I worked as a lab tech, and we were always taught to simply regard it as artifact (Even when I saw it in an admiral's 15-year-old daughter's sample) It never went on the report.

I’ve always assumed my urine samples from ages 14-16 had traces of semen, because I gave those samples after physical exams during which I was very erect for some time…

At one of my exams I had a urine sample taken right at the end which followed producing a semen sample for the doctor.

On examining the urine, the doctor did make a comment that he could see ejaculate in the sample.

Had a physical for STD where they took urine and sperm samples, different but kinda liked it

Lab tech here. It is common to see dead sperm cells in a woman's urine specimen when viewed with a microscope. It is not noted in the report.

Regardless, the acidic contents of urine, will render the sperm useless.

The dr never mentions it, but a sperm count is always included in the analysis.

Never heard this mentioned in speaking with the doc. When I give the sample, it's left in a cupboard in the toilet area. I am given a specimen cup and told to write my name and birthdate on the label and just leave it.