? about birth control shot
I jus got my birth control shot Wednesday an I read that herbal vitamins can make it not work I'm wanting to take the green tea pills does that effect birth control ? Maybe @ HomeBirthAdvocate or @captivated ?
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Depo should not be used as a long term birth control (over 2 years) because of it's severe loss of bone marrow density (I've administered so many depo shots and I never knew this!) I know that's totally off on your question, my bad!
Women with a significant history of breast cancer or history of breast cancer should not use depo (I didn't know this either!).
And to answer your question, they CAN alter the effectiveness of your birth control. Any herbal product that contains enzymes (especially CYP3A4) should be "counselled to use additional contraceptive". Drugs that can affect this are: bosentan, barbiturates, felbamate, griseofulvin, oxcarbazepine, rifampin, St Johns Wart, topiramate and a ton of others that will take forever to type. Look at the ingredients on what medicine/vitamin you want to take and see if any of this is in there?
Hope this helped a little bit!
(and many aren't approved by the FDA which is another reason. They don't consider it safe. Though the FDA is shady as it is).
I'd call your doctor and ask about the pills, but I'm pretty sure you would need to wait until the depo is done. I'm not too sure!
*Withdrawal, calendar method, temperature method, mucus method.
*Male condoms, female condoms, cervical cap, spermicides and diaphragm.
Yes the paraguard iud. It worked great for 5 years untill it feel out. I went to the Dr my cancer had come back very low grade and I was now pregnant! Well we lost it due to the iud it torn my sac on the way out. Long story short I had a new one put in because I loved it, well I had two more losses. Which ended in us deciding even though it was bad timing to have more now due to health risk of waiting. So we were waiting 2 months, well 2 months came along and the day before I my appt to talk about taking it out guess what I found out "I was pregnant".
So I don't know if that helps you or not. I am not the normal case.
I'm sorry if you've spoken about it before and if I missed it. I know how annoying it can be to always repeat.
@Heather3rdgirl I'm gona consider the iud jus kinda scary always hear bad stories my friend had mirana an it attached to her uterus
@mrz_jackson, yes. You get it from your doctor and use it in conjunction with spermicide. The effectiveness is great! Personally, I wouldn't recommend IUD. I know many women have great results, but working in the OB office, we had multiple women come in with misplaced IUD's. My best friend almost died at my house when it perforated her uterus and she began to hemorrhage. It was such a scary day.