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A 27-year-old female asked:
Does taking garlic vitamins, or supplements, adversely affect the effectiveness of birth control. specifically, some that have 10 micro of estrogen?
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Dr. William Simonanswered
Integrative Medicine 34 years experience
Birth control: Vitamins and particularly garlic should have no real adverse effects with birth control pills. Antibiotics are the biggest cause for interference.
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Is it okay to take birth control and a herbal estrogen hormone supplement together?
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Notadvisable: Your birth control contains estrogens/progestin and adding the herbal estrogen product increases the amount of estrogen/ side effects with probably ... Read More
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A 24-year-old female asked:
On birth control patch for estrogen supplement. Still have very low levels of estradiol (5.0), and estrone (11.8). Patch was on for test. What could do this? Did have normal periods for 6 yrs. Could this be autoimmune? Being treated for lupus too.
Dr. Stuart Hickersonanswered
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Couple of questions: Your primary problem of low estrogen could be related to an autoimmune issue. As to the low levels being persistent after a patch is applied that can... Read More
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A 18-year-old female asked:
Can taking too many vitamin supplements, or taking too many vitamin supplements in high quantity affect/ counteract with birth control?
Dr. Charles Whitinganswered
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A 19-year-old female asked:
Will taking skincare supplements (containing glutathione, l-cysteine, vitamins c b and e, collagen) affect the efficacy of birth control pills? (yasmin)
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A 22-year-old female asked:
I am Vitamin D deficient. I was prescribed a once a month supplement for 3 months. Will this make my birth control less effective?
Dr. Martin Friedanswered
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