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Antibiotic contains penicillin can miss periods ?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Penicillin: should not cause you to miss your period. However, the illness that was being treated might stress your body enough to cause a period to be missed or delayed.

Answered 5/15/2016

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