Re: Late Period / Ephedra

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At Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Tina wrote: >
>I have been healthfully loosing weight for the past 14 months (through
>proper diet and exercise). I have successfully lost 28 lbs and am now
>at a healthy weight, but I wanted to loose a little more. I've been
>stuck at a plateau for the past 5 months. So, I figured I would try a
>small amount of ephedra for a short period of time (stupid, I know).
>
>Late last year my husband and I decided that I would stop taking my
>birth control pills so that this year we could start trying to have a
>baby (I had heard that you should wait a few months before trying after
>stopping taking birth control pills). We were using alternate forms of
>birth control in the mean time.
>
>However, in January we messed up and didn't protect (cycle started Jan.
>19th, slip-up on Jan. 25th and my cycle has been about 29 days since
>I've gone off the pill). Since it was early in my cycle, I thought I
>wasn't pregnant. So, I started taking the ephedra (in small quantities)
>on Feb. 4th. My period was due Feb. 17th and still hasn't come (now
>Feb. 27th). As soon as my period was late, I stopped taking the
>ephedra (Feb. 17th).
>
>I've taken several home pregnancy tests, all of which say I am not
>pregnant. So, I'm not sure now if I'm really not pregnant, if the
>ephedra messed up my cycle (although I've read if anything it induces
>menstruation), or if because I just got off the pill in October the
>irregularity is normal. I plan on contacting my physician if I don't
>get my period by Sunday, but in the mean time ... HELP!

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Chief of Staff Obstetrics, Hospital J. A. Fernández
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Argentina
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