Hey, i'm wondering if anyone can explain
the whole drug interaction deal better
than the little piece of paper that came
with my pills, which uses weird medical
names. I'm a bit worried about that
"certain antibiotics" part. I woke up
yesterday morning with a sore throat, and
this morning i've still got that and the
beginnings of a headache. I'd like to
take something to help me out here, but
i'm worried it may interact or something
with the pill (i'm on orthotricyclin-lo),
since I just started a new pack on sunday
and i'd prefer to not have to tell my
boyfriend "no sex for a month". Plus, its
back to school time...In less than a week
he goes back to school here in
massachusetts, and the week after I go
back to long island for school, and I have
no idea when the next time we'll see each
other after that, so I would like to be
able to have sex at some point in that
week that he's at school. So just
wondering if there's anything out there
that would be safe to take, because I can
already tell that this headache is going
to be pretty annoying at work today.
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wakkochic17
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 494 Location: South Carolina
Posted: 01-19-05 11:26am
In some cases antibiotics can reduce the
effectiveness of how your body metabolizes
the hormones in your birth control. It
is always best to play it safe and either
not have sex or use a back-up (why not use
a condom for a week?). It's usually best
to play it safe while you are on the
antibiotics and for a few days afterwards
(you don't have to stop for a whole
month). As for your sickness.. Sounds
like you need to take some ibuprofen and
some sudafed to reduce the pressure and
give it a few days first..
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starshyne530
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 90 Location: NY
Posted: 01-20-05 10:40am
There's a difference between antibiotics
and regular medicine. Let's say you did
take the ibuprofen or tylenol or whatever
for your sore throat and headache and
junk, that won't do anything to your pills
and how they work... Those aren't
antibiotics. Dayquil and other cold
medicines won't do anything to your pills
either. They're just temporary symptom
relievers. Says so right on the bottle or
box or whatever. So you can take your
tylenol or whatever and have some sex!
You'll be a-ok!
