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Started iron pills about 1mth ago (feramax 150mg 1/day), &now my period is late. haven't been sexually active for months & used to be regular before.

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Unrelated: Your period being late is unrelated to taking your iron supplement. Just coincidence.

Answered 1/31/2013

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