PCOS Messages for May, 2001: Re: BC's and antibiotic Minocycline

Re: BC's and antibiotic Minocycline

From: Christa (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 22 May 2001 22:52:50 -0500 (CDT)

Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]
Next message: Christa: "Re: Progesterone Cream..discussed before..clarification please!!"
Previous message: Regina: "Re: am I fat/ for Kallie"
In reply to: anonymous: "BC's and antibiotic Minocycline"

Dear Anonymous-

Your daughter can take antibiotics for her acne along with the BCPs. She should know that taking the antibiotics will decrease the BCPs effectiveness for preventing pregnancy. As long as you use another form of contraception while taking the antibiotics, there's no need to worry. There's a good book you may want to take out of the library called: The Good News About Women's Hormones. The author explains all these things. He has a whole section on androgen disorders (like PCOS) and different treatments for various symptoms. I myself have suffered with acne due to PCOS. I have been on various antibiotics over the years just to control the outbreaks in addition to other treatments. While taking the antibiotics I have also taken BCPs, not necessarily for contraception but more to treat my hormone imbalance. The real treatment everybody is getting now is for the underlying problem of insulin resistance which women who have PCOS suffer from. You may want to ask your daughter's doctor about an insulin sensitizer as well.

Hope this helps you.

At Tue, 22 May 2001, anonymous wrote: >
>Does taking minocycline for the treatment of acne interfere with the
>action of BC pills which are being used to induce cycling and supposedly
>to also help with acne and facial hair? Before my daughter was put on
>the hormones she had been taking the minocycline for acne and it helped
>a great deal. At the present the hormones are not doing much to help
>with the acne and she would like to go back to the antibiotic. We had
>read that antibiotics reduce the effectiveness of BC pills, but since
>they are not being used for that purpose would taking the antibiotic be
>a problem? Mary

--
Christa :-)

Next message: Christa: "Re: Progesterone Cream..discussed before..clarification please!!"
Previous message: Regina: "Re: am I fat/ for Kallie"
In reply to: anonymous: "BC's and antibiotic Minocycline"

use when must restrict search to only the pcos forum...
Enter search keywords:
	Returns per screen: Require all keywords: