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I vomited 15 hours after taking my birth control pill. has it been absorbed?

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Yes: You vomit only the stuff in your stomach. What you consume, including meds, passes into your intestines within the first 4 hours or so & certainly long before 15 hrs.

Dr Zimon agreed

Answered 3/11/2018

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