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Dear doctors, kindly help me out in clearing the information regarding my problem of ankylosis spondylosis, where right now am residing at oman, last week I met one expert doctor and she recommended arcoxia 60 mg and recommended to take injection for 5 years minimum diprofos, where I took previous the tablets from india of saaz-ds more than one year and previously different tablets. Am having no smoking, no drinking and no other habits till now, and now am going to get married soon, I need to know whether these tablets and injection mentioned to take? If I take whether it affects the infertility of sperms? Kindly need your advice on this. And I took scan also, she said some areas are joined we couldn't recover even if me take injection but we can save the others joints from infection.
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Yes, steroids reduces the sperm count. You can plan to freeze your sperms before taking treatment if it's normal. Moreover, after stopping those injections gradually, sperm count might return to normal.
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