Can I Take the Pill With Other Meds
I’ve heard that birth-control pills may lose their effectiveness when used with other drugs like allergy medicines, painkillers or antibiotics. Is this true?
No
one has specifically studied the ways in which other drugs may
interfere with contraceptives, but ”there’s never been any clinical
evidence that taking other drugs makes the Pill fail,” says Andrea
Rapkin, M.D., professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the UCLA School
of Medicine.
Antibiotics raise the most
questions about contraceptive interference, but, Dr. Rapkin says,
”don’t worry about drug interference unless you’re taking a special,
broad-spectrum antibiotic for a prolonged period—meaning more than ten
days.” If you’re on this kind of antibiotic course, ask your doctor
about side effects.
But with the majority of medications, there’s no reason to worry about accidental pregnancy—which is always a relief! Whether
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