Can you take anti-anxiety/depression medication and birth control at like time?

I'm sure the best answer will come from a physician, but I would like to seize feedback from women who have be on anti-depressants such as Lexapro if they were competent to take birth control at like peas in a pod time, and if there be any side effects?
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My husbands coming home from iraq the end of sept. i want to start birth control. whats the most recent i can start


I assume you mean the pill. There's no point not to, generally, but unsurprisingly it will depend on the specific meds you're on or thinking of taking. Both kinds of medication can affect the same aspects of your robustness, like counterbalance. mood, or libido. That's why I would suggest that you leave a breach of several months between starting one and then the other; that course you'll know whether a certain effect is due to one or the other.

Keep contained by mind that many oral contraceptives register depression as a side effect. (The first oral contraceptive I used, years ago, caused me to cry hysterically for hours every day.) So, if you're already on antidepressants, you might enjoy to change the dosage once you start on the pill. On the other paw, if you're on the pill now, I suggest you try stopping for a while to see if your mood improve at all. You might find that you want to change oral contraceptives to some extent than take antidepressants!

Most of this comes from my own experience next to both antidepressants and contraceptives. I must say that doctors are more moderate than they were twenty years ago, but they're commonly skeptical about the contraceptive-depression cooperation, even though it's a fact that plentiful, many women experience dramatic change in mood (either better or worse) when they mess next to their hormones by starting or stopping the pill.
So look out for yourself, girl. Do what works for you.

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I don't c why not.Every med has side effects.

Help girls with the sole purpose?

I take Celaxa and hold an IUS. Absolutely no problems. My sis is on Prozac and the pill, for birth control and she doesn't have any problems any.

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I've taken both at the same time for more or less 2 years now and I haven't have any negative effects from it. I'm also a pharmacy technician, and none of my pharmacists ever mentioned not taking them together. If you want a really solid answer you should contact your pharmacist. They would know how to help you out plentifully more.





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