Can pain killers affect fertility?

How Medications Can Affect Your Fertility ... There are three main ways medication can interfere with fertility, and two of them pertain directly to women, according to Jason Griffith, M.D., an ob-gyn and specialist in ... Acupuncture, a complementary medicine used to treat pain, is another alternative therapy example. read more

A clinical study presented at the European League Against Rheumatism Congress 2015 in Rome found something remarkable: young women who regularly used pain-relief medicines such as diclofenac, naproxen, and etoricoxib (drugs from the group of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs often used to treat pain, such as lower back pain, migraines, and even menstrual cramps) seemed to have been seriously undermining their fertility that way. read more

These medications affect male fertility in different ways, depending on which way each medication works. Silodosin and Tamsulosin can both cause a sharp decrease in the volume of ejaculation or may inhibit ejaculation completely. read more