purpledream
March 16th, 2012, 04:15 PM
Hi, Caroline,
My husband was recently diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia and had taken Methylprednisolone 4mg for 6 days at schedule 6 pills a day for the first day, then 5 the second day and so forth until one the last day. The last dose was end of February. He had also taken Gabapentin 100mg 3 times a day for 2.5 weeks up until today. The neurologist wants him to take another 6 days of the steroid with the same schedule as before starting tomorrow. I'm very concerned how all these medications will affect his sperm count and DNA, because we will have an ER around mid-April. I'm afraid about birth defects mostly. Any advise what is the best approach? Thank you very much!
My husband was recently diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia and had taken Methylprednisolone 4mg for 6 days at schedule 6 pills a day for the first day, then 5 the second day and so forth until one the last day. The last dose was end of February. He had also taken Gabapentin 100mg 3 times a day for 2.5 weeks up until today. The neurologist wants him to take another 6 days of the steroid with the same schedule as before starting tomorrow. I'm very concerned how all these medications will affect his sperm count and DNA, because we will have an ER around mid-April. I'm afraid about birth defects mostly. Any advise what is the best approach? Thank you very much!