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Can smoking marijuana impact your implanon birth control?

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Dr. Peter Wiggin answered

Specializes in Wound care

Drug interactions: These types of birth control medications can be affected by other products including "herbal" products and prescription medications. Due to "cytochrome" involvement with cyp3a4 many drugs may decrease the effectiveness of birth control. In addition marijuana use may change memory and inhibition also effecting birth control methods.

Answered 1/20/2021

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