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Diabetes and Retrograde Ejaculation

Relationship between diabetes and retrograde ejaculation

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Jan 19, 2026

How do causes of retrograde ejaculation (diabetes vs post‑surgical vs drug‑induced) affect the likelihood of successful medical treatment?

Retrograde ejaculation (RE) is usually benign but clinically significant when fertility is desired; the chance that medical therapy will restore antegrade ejaculation depends strongly on cause—drug‑in...

Jan 19, 2026

What are the success rates and risks of medications used to treat retrograde ejaculation?

Retrograde ejaculation (RE) can sometimes be reversed with medications—most commonly sympathomimetics (pseudoephedrine) and tricyclic/related antidepressants (imipramine, amoxapine)—but success is inc...