Men - Have you ever had a retrograde ejaculation?

Before my prostate surgery, I frequently had retrograde ejaculation. After the surgery my urethra is open but I make almost no semen so there's not much to ejaculate.

When I was younger my partner and I experimented with urethral sounds. If you ejaculatedbin with the sound in place it will be retrograde. With the sound in your prostate , it's an intense ejaculation.

Yes, but only when taking a BPH med called Rapaflo (silodosin). If I don't take it, I ejaculate normally and "fruitfully" as I always have, but within 24 hours of taking the stuff, nope... zero... dry. Sure, I can still have an orgasm, but it's frankly a crappy one that isn't very satisfying. Worse, the spasms can even be uncomfortable, which isn't an encouragement to even bother having an orgasm. Fortunately, the med leaves the system within 24 hours of stopping and can be taken on and off according to my uro, so as long as I plan ahead and skip a daily dose or two in advance of any "plans", I can be back to normal for a while. Combined with a planned dose of Cialis for the occasional ED disappointment, and I'm doing better than I did when I was 18. That is, until I start having trouble peeing again, then it's back on the med until the next break.

Is it possible to squeez your penis tight right before you have an orgasm in order to prevent the semen from flowing out. A.k.a. retrograde ejaculation or injaculation (the semen go back in bladder)

Reason of doing that:

1. Avoid the mess.

2. Another level of stimulation

Is it dangerous? Can it cause any pernament damage?

Yes, actually, I learned to do it on purpose. It seems to add a weird intensity to the orgasm. It involved breath and muscle control, where you slow your breathing down and relax the spasms that pump the sperm out. You still orgasm, but the only way I can describe the feeling of controlling the ejaculation is the balls "swallowing" the sperm. It is a feeling of redirecting the ejaculate. I can't really describe it, but I can do it if I wish, and many other people have done it also. Some people say it is "impossible", which is wrong, because it certainly is. There is a little bit of instruction on it in one of Drunvalo Melchizedek's books on the Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life, and also a slightly different way of doing it in Mantak Chia's book Cultivating the Male Sexual Energy. I don't really like doing it, since it feels unnatural, but it is very interesting.

I've had it happen when i have a catheter inserted and masturbate, if the catheter is one of the larger ones that i use the cum can't exit around the catheter and some of it goes into the bladder.

Yes I had to take medication one time for my prostate. It's very painful and burning feeling.

I have never had the problem. I have read that if you have a retrograde emission once, it's permanent. What I'm gathering from some of the comments here, it is not necessarily permanent; that it can be corrected ( unless , of course, you don't want to.)

Yes I had to take medication one time for my prostate. It's very painful and burning feeling.

I guess it depends on the person and the medication. My alpha blockers (Flomax) don't cause pain, they just relax the prostate muscles so what does come out either isn't much or goes somewhere else. Not sure exactly why that doesn't make it equally easy for urine to come out during orgasm, so maybe it's more "not as much fluid comes out in the first place."

It does feel a bit different, but not painful, and unfortunately the benefits of taking the drug outweigh the irritations.

Is it possible to squeez your penis tight right before you have an orgasm in order to prevent the semen from flowing out. A.k.a. retrograde ejaculation or injaculation (the semen go back in bladder)

I used to hear of men doing this to delay ejaculation, or even as a contraceptive measure. I've not heard of it in many years, and I did read somewhere it was not healthy for the urethra. When I say many years, I'm going back to 'Everything you always wanted to know about sex' (1970?) a book with more factual errors than a Trump speech.

As a woman, it sounds painful. Is it?

Some men like to have the woman push hard against the perineum (taint) to pinch off the urethra via constricting the urethra through the bulbospongiosus muscle. That effectively makes the bladder the only place for semen to go during ejaculation because it can't even enter the penis.

Some men like it, many do not. Many men, including my husband enjoy having that area rubbed during a hand job and ejaculation and orgasm but not having so much pressure against it that the ejaculation becomes retrograde which some men find painful.

A TURP prostate procedure usually causes retrograde ejaculation. It is not as pleasurable because there is no forward pulse of semen.

After having bladder and prostate surgery it had become the norm. Miss the ejaculation outwards. Should be great full things still work.

Once I was trying out a certain Rx for BPH which made my ejaculations 100% retrograde and painful and which made sex not much fun anymore.

I don't take the stuff anymore.

Yes! I am learning tantra semen retention. I have experienced this. It is not dangerous, from what I understand. I mostly have learned to spread my sexual energy through my body when orgasming (not ejaculating) and have discovered some amazingly erotic experiences--better than ejaculating!! Sexual experimentation is wonderful!!

I have had this problem a good ten times now, this is due to my bladder operations and I was told by my urologist that this might be a risk, but now It’s less but can still ejaculate, feels funny not seeing any cum come out thou

Yes, all the time now since I started taking Flomax four years ago. I don't like not being able to shoot, and I wonder if it increases the chance of getting UTI's since the seamen neutralizes the acidity in the tract. I always make sure to urinate after masturbating, and drink allot of water.

I was on medicine for migraines. Had retrograde ejaculations. Had the feeling but no ejaculate. I hated the feeling. It wasn’t satisfying. I got off the medicine as soon as I realized the cause.

I'm on Rapaflo and it causes anaejaculation - no semen is released outside or in the bladder. Its an acquired taste. I can still orgasm, dry, but the orgasm is quite muted - more just a sensation of loss of interest. Within a minute I can start up again. For me, 8 mg Rapaflo lasts about 3 days, so I have to wait for the 4th day to ejaculate - even then little comes out and its weak. If I wait until say day 5 then I have a normal ejac.

I just got out of another major hospitalization and like before it's caused a significant reduction of the volume and even color (yellowish) of my semen.

Was prescribed Flomax and Proscar for an enlarged prostate. I don't know which one it is, but they definitely caused retrograde ejaculation I could still feel the pleasure of masturbating, but little or no semen would spurt out when I came. It was definitely a strange, but never painful at all experience. More like a let down in the sexual sense. I did learn to stop taking the pills for a day or two, which would allow me to cum and spurt out semen whenever I felt the need to feel normal.

I see I posted in #46 here, over 2 years ago… wow time flies! Well, still taking Flomax and still having retrograde ejac's… they mess up your underwear as it later leaks out. As mentioned below, it is a bit of let down (not shooting out) ..

Before I had my prostate out, I did all the time, sometimes my cum was just clear though. Not sure what component makes semen white.

Yes, this has happened to me. When I was in my late teens, I got knocked off my bike & suffered severe bruising to my genitals and pelvic nerves (initially suspected pelvic fracture). As a result of this my scrotum swelled massively and scans revealed some bleeding. As the nerve bruising “healed” and I was able to feel my legs; the swelling to my genitals gradually subsided. I'm not sure of the exact concern - I think to assess whether the bleeding had also resolved - but I was asked to produce a semen sample; but was also warned it might be uncomfortable / odd colour & not to be worried. When I got to the point of ejaculating, it felt mildly painful, but nothing actually came out of my penis into the sample pot 😞. On reporting this, the doctors decided they wanted to do a bladder flush. This proved positive for semen; so obviously i'd had a retrograde ejaculation. On examining the extract, it was found to contain an amount of blood 😢.

Subsequently when I was asked to produce other samples, I did get a partial “normal” ejaculation, which on examination revealed minimal traces of blood. However, they also discovered that my sperm were low in number & poor mobility/quality 😢. A bladder washout also revealed some semen in the bladder. I suspect that since then I have always had a partial retrograde ejaculation to some degree, as my semen never spurts forcefully & my subsequent urine is partially cloudy (but never at other times).

My doctor put me back on silodosin at my request. This time I am taking 4 mg per day, less side effects. I am finding my erections are better and I LOVE the dry orgasms.

My doctor told me that most men hate the dry orgasms, but she has heard from a few who do not mind and a few others like me that actually enjoy them.

By the way, there is no retrograde ejaculation with silodosin. With silodosin, various muscles are switched off in the bladder, prostate and most importantly the seminal vessicles. Over time, the seminal vesicles will get a bit sore but ultimately become larger. Seminal vessicle soreness from coitus reservatus or silodosin use is easily relieved with a hot bath.

I think DrZ has done a perfect summary of the question.

I understand it happens because the bladder sphincter has failed to close properly at the point of orgasm, causing at least some of the semen to take the easier path into the bladder instead of exiting via the urethra. Surgery and medication can be the cause I believe, and I'm sure the physicians on here will correct me if that's wrong

I add that another cause of retrograde ejaculation is also the assumption of a class of drugs for bph that is called alpha blocker.

At the end I personally not agree with the opinion that retrograde ejaculation assure contraception. If retrograde ejaculation is more common in elderly people, and so may also concomit the andropause, there are some cases in which a man can have some time a normal ejaculation, maybe more feeble, or also a precum that contains sperm cell.

So if u want to be sure, I think is better to take one contracception method like condom or pill or other methods

Happens to me, i take a pill daily to help me pee, seems it is normal to ejaculate into bladder , so if im expecting any form of sex, i delay taking pill till after, then i cum normally and feel the cum pulsing out of my cock.

My boyfriend always had the same thing when I squeezed his urethra so that he wouldn't squirt in my mouth. He always reprimanded me for it.

Yep, I'm getting old. I started Flowmax about a year ago to help me pee. Sometimes I think it helps a little, sometimes I don't think it helps at all. However, I definitely started retrograde ejaculations with that medicine. I have read that you still have orgasms and they feel the same, just no external ejaculation. I strongly disagree. I do still have orgasms, but they're not nearly as good or last as long. I feel it building up, then almost like a huge let down right at climax. Plus, I really miss the feeling of it spurting out. Every now and then, I actually stop taking the meds for a period of time so I can feel a real orgasm.

Like many have stated as the result of some medications. In my case BPH and an SSRI.

It wasn't bad, orgasm experience as far as feeling was the same, of course there was no ejaculate ejected but you could still feel the ejaculation response.

The followup to that of course was cloudy urine as the semen has to go somewhere.

If I had to I could live with it. Excessive ejaculate has always been a problem for me making masturbation and sex extra messy and giving anyone who is giving me a BJ more than they bargained for in many cases leading to spit vs swallow if I'm even allowed to reach orgasm while still in their mouth.