Question about Kegels

I was a couple of years post surgery and started leaking a little. I asked the doctor and he asked when was the last time I did kegels. He said start back and I would be fine. It worked.

Happens every time just like you said. I suspect - but don't know- that it is somewhat related to the phenomena of climacturia. My thinking is that the sphincter that used to remain closed under autonomic control is gone. The sphincter that remains, which was normally/mostly under voluntary control in days past, used to relax during sex to allow escape of semen, while the other one clamped shut all by itself, without any thinking.

So, I have come to suspect that as soon as I have a sexual impulse or thought, and if I don't remember to actively Kegel, my nervous system sends a signal to my sphincter to relax(so that semen could escape if it was there) and allows escape of urine. Just like it always did but in the old days when there was another sphincter closer to the bladder which did the opposite when that signal was sent and closed up tight to hold urine in the bladder, regardless of what the other sphincter was doing. I have missed that other sphincter ever since the surgery. It was handy as a boot jack.

In support of this is is the fact that I often find that, even when hiking vigorously uphill or working in the yard, even if I am not doing any active effort, not even a slight Kegel, still the urine stays inside. It used to pour out, but mostly behaves now with no thought from me. But let me pat my wife's behind or anything similar, and if I don't remember to actively Kegel, look out here it comes. Urine, that is. (not a lot, but a few drops will be forthcoming)

Post Edited (BillyBob@388) : 5/11/2015 7:18:38 AM (GMT-6)

I'm also noticing leakage under similar circumstances. BB may be right about the valve issues. I do recall one of the pictures of the system shows that there are valves inside the prostate that allow either urine or semen into the urethra, and when (obviously) the prostate is gone, they are gone as well. So, as we all know, the only valve we have left is the one at the bottom of the bladder...which is where the difficulties come from.

Things certainly are different. Not bad, necessarily, but certainly different.

Halbert,

Actually, the sphincter at the bottom of the bladder goes with the prostate and it is the "external" sphincter (the one downstream of the prostate) that is left after the prostate is removed. This is the sphincter that loosens when a man is aroused (so he ejaculates forward, not backwards into his bladder) and this is why Prato's drip when he grabs his wife's ass is the last drip his determined Kegels will eliminate, and will be the first to come back if he ever slacks off on his exercises.

Peter, I guess I need to go back to anatomy class.

Regardless, we used to have multiple valves, and we're down to one. And that one is not always the best.

Pratoman said...
It's at least good to know I'm not the only one who still grabs his wife's ass

Every chance I get. As another member recently wrote, "I'm sick, I'm not dead!"

Is there a way to install a medical grade check valve somewhere in the pipeline?

Something like this valve by Qosina perhaps?

I have very healthy T and free T levels, and still get that little twinge when I touch something nice or hear the "klip, klop" and see an appropriately filled out set of high heels.
I never noticed a correlation between dripping and that reaction. It might be there but, like I said, I never noticed since my mind was focused on other stimuli.

I'll have to run some tests. I'm doing it for science and GFMPH.

Jeff