Post biopsy sex - Spouse from USA

Since you are on this site, you may have already gone through this stage, but if you are new to the site, this may be helpful information. Men, there can and most likely will be blood with ejaculation after the prostate biopsy. Please prepare your partner. I had a feeling this would happen(I am a nurse), but I was not prepared by my husband. I felt so upset afterwards. I hurt for my spouse, even though it did not hurt him. My brain was having a hard time with the visual, because women bleed, not men. So my advice, is please prepare your partner. If a person is prepared it will be less upsetting. I know a little blood is the least of some of our worries, but at least if a person is prepared, it will be less shocking and cause less weakness behind the knees.

Thank you to everyone for your honesty in your posts. It has helped me to understand different concerns.

We are still waiting for results. We are preparing to deal with whatever results we get. He had a biopsy with out anesthesia and had a lot of discomfort during the procedure. He was told they could not use anesthesia. He was a little sore for a few days.

Posting from the USA

Post Edited (Eileen) : 5/26/2015 12:10:12 AM (GMT-6)

My doc told me about the blood. Weird. I don't understand the no anesthesia? Mine used local and I felt the last couple of samples a little. I had my biopsy on a Tuesday, and got the dx on Friday the same week.

Eileen, welcome to the forum. I hope your husbands biopsy results come back negative, and you are just passing through. Should that not be the case, stick around here, there is plenty of support and education offered..in fact, when I had my biopsy, I would never have been prepared for the bloody semen if not for the guys here, who gave me the heads up

Doctors don't do a very good job of warning men about the blood in their semen and when they do mention it they almost never give an accurate impression of what to expect or how long to expect it to last. The absurd vampire-movie red color only lasts a few days but it takes weeks, if not months, for a man to get back to normal. After the bright red comes chocolate-syrup brown, then used motor oil, and various fading shades of mocha-late. It will probably be four to six weeks before he no longer stains the bed clothes.

Good luck with the biopsy results. Be sure to tell us about them. We're pretty good here at helping with the jargon.

My doctor did warn me. Wasn't that long ago, but think it was still reddish after the biopsy. Weird, even though it was expected. Now, shortly after Brachytherapy, more of the dark, tar color - when there's something there. A few days ago it was dry. More recently, it wasn't dry, but was the dark color. Don't know why first it was dry, then it wasn't.