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Mild diarrhea/nausea about 14 hours after taking junel fe 1/20 birth control pills.. will this mess with effectiveness? have been on the pills for one week..?

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No: The medication is absorbed in the upper small intestine within the 1st few hours. Your loose poop was from more than ten feet further down the digestive tract.

Answered 9/10/2020

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