Birth Control & Diet Pills -- Do They Effect Each Other? Posted: 06-29-06 11:58am
I am currently on birth control and have
been for several years and I was wondering
if hydroxycut (the diet pill) makes birth
control pills stop working sort of how
antibiotics do, or if it really has no
effect at all?
Thanks.
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mostly_afraid
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Joined: 26 Jun 2006 Posts: 16
Posted: 06-29-06 13:13pm
Hi. I don't know what hydroxicut is, but
when I used to take ephedrine, which is
essentially speed, my birth control still
worked great for me. Meaning, I didn't
have spotting and I didn't get pregnant
w/my boyfriend. However speed+birth
control is probably very bad for your
heart.
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cruelix
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Posted: 06-29-06 13:16pm
Thanks for responding :)
i took trimspa once while I was on birth
control and the birth control continued to
work, so hopefully it will be the same for
hydroxycut, I was just wondering if it
depended on which diet pill one used
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Carifairy
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Posted: 06-29-06 14:01pm
There are herbs, some of which can be in
diet pills, which decrease the
effectiveness of brith control pills.
Saint johns wort is one.
Diet pills are horrible for you anyways,
they themselves can add to the blood clot
and high bloos pressure risk of birth
control.
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Kaitlynn
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Joined: 27 Jun 2006 Posts: 15 Location: Oregon
Posted: 06-29-06 21:33pm
I take diet smart by equate. Its ephedra
free and has 32 mg of egcg. It works as a
multi-vitamin and diet pill with no st.
John's wart, the only issue with it is it
has caffiene in it, which I know isnt
something you should take a lot of whil
youre on b.C.. But its a siggestion if
you just have to take some kindve diet
pill. This can usually be found at
wal-mart.
