WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for August, 2003: Re: anti depressants/anti anxiety meds and no periods link?

Re: anti depressants/anti anxiety meds and no periods link?

From: Richard Chudacoff, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 31 Aug 2003 10:54:15 -0500 (CDT)

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At Sat, 30 Aug 2003, clipped wrote: >
>Hi
>My periods were perfectly regular always. I have not gotten my last two
>periods and it doesn't feel like I will be getting my next one either.
>Some background info is I have been taking paxil for one year. Buspar
>was added 2 months ago with it. I have been usung alesse bc pills for
>16 months. My question is this. Could the buspar/paxil combination
>have shut off my periods? I am not pregnant. Even though some pregnancy
>like symptoms occur such as mild nausea, sore breasts, and strange food
>cravings. A nurse did a pregnancy test and it was negative. Also, 3
>months ago I discovered a pea sized lump behind and at the aereola edge
>which corresponds to the time my periods stopped.

It could be related to all three meds. If you have stopped your cycles, then that is pretty good contraception. It is not unusual for women on birth control pills alone to have absent meneses. I would get the breast mass evaluated, though.

-- Richard Chudacoff, MD, FACOG Chudacoff Obstetrics & Gynecology, PLLC Sugar Land, TX

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