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| Hello all. I am hoping someone out there can explain this problem and has a
solution. I am 53 and over the last few years I have been experiencing a
reduction in the volume of ejaculate I produce when comming. The problem has
gotten so bad that recently I often produce only a dribble and sometimes
none at all. I don't have a problem getting an erection. I had a vascetomy
about 15 years ago. Any ideas on how to stop this problem from getting
worse?
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| avocet 2004-10-22, 7:07 pm |
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"me" <none@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:10ngl2uc5dqmre3@news.supernews.com...
> Hello all. I am hoping someone out there can explain this problem and has
a
> solution. I am 53 and over the last few years I have been experiencing a
> reduction in the volume of ejaculate I produce when comming. The problem
has
> gotten so bad that recently I often produce only a dribble and sometimes
> none at all. I don't have a problem getting an erection. I had a vascetomy
> about 15 years ago. Any ideas on how to stop this problem from getting
> worse?
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Sperm is something less than 5% of total ejaculate volume so it isn't your
vasectomy. About 70 percent of the volume comes from the seminal vessicles
and about 30 percent from the prostate.
You could try two things and if they don't work see a urologist to determine
if you might have some kind of ejaculatory duct obstruction.
Supplement with 3 grams of plain L-arginine; 1 gram three times a day on an
empty stomach, the last at bedtime. If it is going to work, it will take a
couple weeks to kick in. You may experience some flatulance in the
beginning but this pretty quickly stops.
Start drinking more water, like a lot. If you are at all dehydrated,
production of seminal fluid goes way down. Get very hydrated and stay there
and seminal fluid production goes up.
Practice some Kegel exercises, working up gradually each day in the number
you do. This could make you a shooter again instead of a dribbler.
Let us know if this works for you.
Jim
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| c palmer 2004-10-22, 7:07 pm |
| Hello all. I am hoping someone out there can explain this problem and
has a solution. I am 53 and over the last few years I have been
experiencing a reduction in the volume of ejaculate I produce when
comming. The problem has gotten so bad that recently I often produce
only a dribble and sometimes none at all. I don't have a problem getting
an erection. I had a vascetomy about 15 years ago. Any ideas on how to
stop this problem from getting worse?
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jim mention kegels and that is a possibility. but what's happening is
that you are 53 and the testis is decreasing in hormone output. you can
do a search on male menopause, and there is such a thing. if you can't
find out anything give me an email. with male menopause, you will
experience a change in sleep patterns - don't sleep as good. start to
get up at night to go to the bathroom. decrease in ejaculation force
and volume. the reason for that is fairly simple. remember when you
were going into your teens. your body bulked up and you gained muscle
mass as your levels of testosterone increased? well, it's going the
other way and as the level of hormone drops, so does the muscle mass and
tone, which affects your ejaculation force and the testosterone affect
your output volume.
also, BPH conditions can provide a restriction in the urethra slowing
everything down even more.
vascetomy doesn't affect what you are experiencing.
i was about that age when i started doing what you said. and i also
wondered about it until i got some answers.
hope this info helps.
~ curtis
knowledge is power - growing old is mandatory - growing wise is optional
"Many more men die with prostate cancer than of it. Growing old is
invariably fatal. Prostate cancer is only sometimes so."
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| Richard Smith 2004-10-26, 11:07 am |
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"c palmer" <PALMER_ENT@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:4566-41798E8D-939@storefull-3154.bay.webtv.net...
> Hello all. I am hoping someone out there can explain this problem and
> has a solution. I am 53 and over the last few years I have been
> experiencing a reduction in the volume of ejaculate I produce when
> comming. The problem has gotten so bad that recently I often produce
> only a dribble and sometimes none at all. I don't have a problem getting
> an erection. I had a vascetomy about 15 years ago. Any ideas on how to
> stop this problem from getting worse?
> ============
>
> jim mention kegels and that is a possibility. but what's happening is
> that you are 53 and the testis is decreasing in hormone output. you can
> do a search on male menopause, and there is such a thing. if you can't
> find out anything give me an email. with male menopause, you will
> experience a change in sleep patterns - don't sleep as good. start to
> get up at night to go to the bathroom. decrease in ejaculation force
> and volume. the reason for that is fairly simple. remember when you
> were going into your teens. your body bulked up and you gained muscle
> mass as your levels of testosterone increased? well, it's going the
> other way and as the level of hormone drops, so does the muscle mass and
> tone, which affects your ejaculation force and the testosterone affect
> your output volume.
> also, BPH conditions can provide a restriction in the urethra slowing
> everything down even more.
>
> vascetomy doesn't affect what you are experiencing.
>
> i was about that age when i started doing what you said. and i also
> wondered about it until i got some answers.
>
> hope this info helps.
>
> ~ curtis
>
> knowledge is power - growing old is mandatory - growing wise is optional
> "Many more men die with prostate cancer than of it. Growing old is
> invariably fatal. Prostate cancer is only sometimes so."
Jim, Curtis, would weight training help in this regard? According to info
gleaned from misc.fitness.weights, weight training, particularly training
involving the larger muscles groups, i.e., squats, increases T production.
It also increases LBM (lean body mass) which reduces estrogen. When guys
start putting on fat such that they get to a BF ratio above 20% (and
particularly in the case of beer drinkers) the hormonal balance gets really
whack and T gets dumped into the toilet.
Regards,
Richard
>
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| avocet 2004-10-26, 7:11 pm |
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"Richard Smith" <mrpc9886@nospamiev1.net> wrote in message
news:nfOdnS1lWJks2ePcRVn-tA@giganews.com...
> Jim, Curtis, would weight training help in this regard? According to info
> gleaned from misc.fitness.weights, weight training, particularly training
> involving the larger muscles groups, i.e., squats, increases T production.
> It also increases LBM (lean body mass) which reduces estrogen. When guys
> start putting on fat such that they get to a BF ratio above 20% (and
> particularly in the case of beer drinkers) the hormonal balance gets
really
> whack and T gets dumped into the toilet.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard
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Dunno, Richard. It might. But any form of weight reduction, if one is
overweight, would have the same positive effect on T levels, no?
Unless you do something to counteract the process, ejaculate volume does
gradually decrease with age, body weight having little to do with the
reduction. But "me" seems to be running totally out of juice, I gather sort
of suddenly and in a way that surprises him at age 53, when he shouldn't yet
be noticing much of a change.
A small clue to him might be in the color and consistency of the semen he is
producing. Prostate fluid, by itself, is thin/watery and sort of gray in
color. Seminal vessicle fluid is thicker and light in color, the "goop"
part that one of our women posters termed it.
Jim
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| "me" <none@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<10ngl2uc5dqmre3@news.supernews.com>...
> Hello all. I am hoping someone out there can explain this problem and has a
> solution. I am 53 and over the last few years I have been experiencing a
> reduction in the volume of ejaculate I produce when comming. The problem has
> gotten so bad that recently I often produce only a dribble and sometimes
> none at all. I don't have a problem getting an erection. I had a vascetomy
> about 15 years ago. Any ideas on how to stop this problem from getting
> worse?
Could be retrograde ejaculation? Check the link:
http://www.embarrassingproblems.com..._retrograde.htm
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| You should go to a urologist and get this checked out. Insist on a PSA test,
as a lack of ejaculate could be an indication of other problems.
Dale P
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| You should go to a urologist and get this checked out. Insist on a PSA test,
as a lack of ejaculate could be an indication of other problems.
Dale P
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| D Hamilton 2004-11-02, 11:08 am |
| On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:32:23 -1000, "me" <none@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Hello all. I am hoping someone out there can explain this problem and has a
>solution. I am 53 and over the last few years I have been experiencing a
>reduction in the volume of ejaculate I produce when comming. The problem has
>gotten so bad that recently I often produce only a dribble and sometimes
>none at all. I don't have a problem getting an erection. I had a vascetomy
>about 15 years ago. Any ideas on how to stop this problem from getting
>worse?
>
http://tinyurl.com/42bts
I ran across this a moment ago. Some of what it says has already been
stated by the other posters. Still, it is interesting.
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| avocet 2004-11-04, 7:09 pm |
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"D Hamilton" <dhamilton@987vanner987.com> wrote in message
news:u99fo0lksdgkaijqbkr4uqb83vr7v28s0k@4ax.com...
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> http://tinyurl.com/42bts
>
> I ran across this a moment ago. Some of what it says has already been
> stated by the other posters. Still, it is interesting.
It is. Except that he felt compelled to say for some reason:
"It's also important to know that one of the most common problems
experienced with semen is called hematospermia - blood in the ejaculate.
Hematospermia is usually the result of inflammation of the prostate or the
seminal vesicles."
Hematospermia is almost always a harmless and transient event and has no
influence on ejaculate volume.
Jim
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| D Hamilton 2004-11-05, 2:07 am |
| On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:32:23 -1000, "me" <none@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Hello all. I am hoping someone out there can explain this problem and has a
>solution. I am 53 and over the last few years I have been experiencing a
>reduction in the volume of ejaculate I produce when comming. The problem has
>gotten so bad that recently I often produce only a dribble and sometimes
>none at all. I don't have a problem getting an erection. I had a vascetomy
>about 15 years ago. Any ideas on how to stop this problem from getting
>worse?
>
http://tinyurl.com/42bts
I ran across this a moment ago. Some of what it says has already been
stated by the other posters. Still, it is interesting.
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