[Lelola]

I would start using condoms for both of you. Have you had the blood work done yet? I'd also get regular multivitamins and take it with food. Every female of childbearing ages should be taking a multivitamin with folate in it per the US Surgeon General. It helps to decrease birth defects that occur early on before the woman finds out she is pregnant.

Antibiotics make me sick personally. Looking up in the Lexicomp (a program that all of our hospitals use for drug information), it can cause vomiting and diarrhea. Are you still on the antibiotics or did you finish them? Also, I've had one or two incidences where I missed my period when I was on antibiotics due to the reactions to them. However, it wasn't listed as an official adverse effect.

The chances of having a plain fever of 103 as a child causing him to be infertile is unlikely and the chances of him knowing about it at his current age is even slimmer. It used to be more common when mumps was around that males could become infertile (hence why it's important to get the MMR). If he could go into depth with it like "a bad UTI caused me to have a blockage/scarring/whatever" then possibly it may be true. However, I'd lean more towards he was BSing you.

Also, the birth control and antibiotics is overstated. It's more with another antibiotic called rifampin. The reason why many practitioners still say to use an alternate form is more of a safety guard on their part. Using an alternate form of contraception like condoms won't kill a person and that way people can't blame them should they get pregnant on while on the antibiotics. Plus it's kind of silly because all antibiotics do not have the same mechanism of action. Another fear could be too that the person will vomit or have diarrhea which could make the person absorb less of the pills. However, that's not the same thing as saying that antibiotics interfere with hormonal birth control.