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Re: late period, antibiotics & BCP
From: Dona (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 27 Sep 2001 21:40:47 -0500 (CDT)
Hi Sonnet and Jodi,
Yes most all antibiotics usually make BCP less affective. If you don't
want to get pregnant you may want to use condoms along with your
pill.It's always better to be safe than sorry. I would go ahead and
take a HPT before starting the next pack of pills..not all of us have
false negatives...it usually depends on when you ovulated in your cycle.
Dona
>At Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Sonnet wrote:
>Hey Jodi -
>
>Don't know much about flagel itself and bcp's (although I was vaguely
>under the impression that ALL antibiotics caused bcp problems, but then
>again I could well be wrong!)
>
>If you have already missed a period, then an hpt *should* be accurate.
>Often women find accurate tests even 10 days or so post ovulation. I
>would take an hpt to rule that out.
>
>That being said, I also missed quite a few periods when I was on the
>pill, for no apparent reason other than my body just likes being
>abnormal.
>
>Good luck to you!
>
>At Thu, 27 Sep 2001, jodi wrote:
>>
>>Hi all...
>>
>>I am wondering if anybody knows if the antibiotic they put you on for
>>baceterial vaginosis (flagel) is one of the ones that makes BCPs
>>ineffective?
>>
>>I am wondering because my "period" (BCP induced bleed) should have
>>started on Monday... and it hasn't. I'm supposed to start a new pack
>>of pills tomorrow and I don't know what to do. I know how the package
>>inserts usually say something along the lines of start a new pack
>>anyway, and if you don't get a period then, get a pregnancy test... but
>>I don't like that line of behaviour somehow. But I'm afriad if I get a
>>test now, it won't be accurate anyway, both because it's so early and
>>because don't PCOSers tend to have false negatives?
>>
>>I don't know what to do here. I've never had a late period while on
>>BCPs. The thing is, though, I was on flagel (sp) the first week or so
>>of this last pack... and I am wondering if that might have made the
>>pill ineffective... the doctor didn't say anything when she put me on
>>it, and she knew I was on BCPs... so I'm hoping it's not one of those
>>antibiotics... but who knows?
>>
>>I've been wearing nice underwear in the hopes of getting my period -
>>hopefully someone else will know how THAT always seems to go - but, no
>>luck.
>>
>>Hrumph...
>>
>>- jodi
>
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>Email always welcome to: sonnet_fitz@hotmail.com
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