just wondering if alcohol has any effect
on you when taking birth control.
it doesnt make it less efective does it?
thx
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Auzzie_Wanting_To_Help
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 04 Feb 2007 Posts: 214 Location: Australia
Posted: 03-03-07 20:47pm
To answer your question, it definately
does! The pill mixed with alcohol, drugs
other prescription medicine can have a
huge effect on the effectiveness of the
pill!!
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Magical Logic
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 14 Mar 2006 Posts: 2248
Posted: 03-03-07 20:55pm
i found this info
Drinking alcohol does not affect the
effectiveness of the birth control pill.
However, if a woman has too much to drink
and throws up within a few hours of taking
the Pill, it may affect the effectiveness
of it.
Keep in mind that mixing sex with alcohol
or other drugs increases the chances of
unintended pregnancy and exposure to
sexually transmitted infections. This is
because if a person has sex when she or he
is drunk or high, that person is much less
likely to be thinking clearly enough to
use condoms, use them correctly, or
practice other kinds of safer sex.
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Auzzie_Wanting_To_Help
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 04 Feb 2007 Posts: 214 Location: Australia
Posted: 03-03-07 20:56pm
Ohh okay maybe im wrong....Im just going
off what my doctor has told me.
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forever16
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 76
Posted: 03-03-07 21:02pm
Last week, I took the pill at my normal
time (11pm) and about 30mins later my
friends and I started drinking. I drank
about a third of my drink when I started
feeling sick to my stomach. I don't know
if it was due to the mixing of alcohol and
the pill or something else. But it passed
a couple minutes later when I had some
carbs.
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