 Storage: You should keep your birth control pills someplace that is too hot or too cold. And you should keep away of direct sunlight. Heat and cold can affect different medications different ways, and very often can lower the effectiveness. When you take some contraceptive pills you should always inform your doctor, it is help you to avoid any complications.
Timing: It is very important to take your birth control pill at the same time every day. This is particularly important for progestin-only pills. If you forgot about taking your pills you should consider setting your watch to beep, or another similar reminder to help you take your pills at the right time.
Antibiotics: Demeclocyclene and doxycyclene are two antibiotics that can meddle with your birth control. However, other antibiotics are generally fine when you are on the pill. But in anyway you should consulting with your doctor and ask him/her about other alternatives, and make sure that you get prescribed something that will not interfere with your contraceptive plan.
St. John’s Wort: It is an herbal remedy, and it helps combat depression. You can buy it at any pharmacy. However, it is lower the effectiveness of birth control, and you shouldn’t take it without consulting with your doctor.
Some other drugs that might interact with your birth control include bronchidilators, corticosteroids, and certain anxiety medications. Also many medications taken to prevent seizures can lower the effectiveness of birth control pills. Certain medications that are taken orally to treat yeast infections can disrupt oral contraceptives. This includes griseofulvin.
Grapefruit and Grapefruit Juice. Grapefruit contains a compound that slows the absorption of estrogen hormones to the body. This means that it does not affect progestin-only pills.
But don’t forget that as your other medication can affect your birth control also your birth control can also affect your other medication. Avoiding negative drug interactions is important for you on both counts. That is why always ask your doctor or pharmacist about drug interactions when you get a new prescription.
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