Two questions:
1) what is known about the potential for sterility with EP? My wife and I would like to have kids and this is pretty important.

2) Has anyone else experienced the pain in their groin as well? and from groin I mean below belly button, on either side? This sounds like lymph node area but I haven't noticed any swollen nodes down there?

Much appreciated

First, the good news is, and I think it's safe to say, there appears to be no direct link between EP and setrility. There may be factors which influence the outcome more negatively than others eg. is it only on one side or both sides. In my own case I have always been affected only on the left side, been married for eleven years, have two children and wife is four months pregnant with our third.

Second, I have never noticed what I would describe as real pain in the groin area. Maybe slightly, in the early days of acute phases, but that would be about it.