diff --git a/elasticsearch/connection/http_urllib3.py b/elasticsearch/connection/http_urllib3.py
index c58944e96..9d78c9185 100644
--- a/elasticsearch/connection/http_urllib3.py
+++ b/elasticsearch/connection/http_urllib3.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 import ssl
 import urllib3
 from urllib3.exceptions import ReadTimeoutError, SSLError as UrllibSSLError
+from urllib3.util.retry import Retry
 import warnings
 import gzip
 
@@ -168,7 +169,7 @@ def perform_request(self, method, url, params=None, body=None, timeout=None, ign
                     # again
                     body = gzip.zlib.compress(body)
 
-            response = self.pool.urlopen(method, url, body, retries=False, headers=request_headers, **kw)
+            response = self.pool.urlopen(method, url, body, retries=Retry(False), headers=request_headers, **kw)
             duration = time.time() - start
             raw_data = response.data.decode('utf-8')
         except Exception as e: