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| *Women health>>>Smoking |
Are you really not supposed to smoke while on birth control? |
ive been taking birth control for a full month now. and im not a regular smoker, but every once in a while i'll have a few. but since ive started the pill, all of the information they give me has strongly advised me not to smoke. i don't know if this is just something they have to tell you because there are rare risks or if it really is a serious problem. Well i wont start this long borring talk that you not suppose to smoke period because i bet thats what other people will do before they even get anywhere close to answering your actual question. I am a regular smoker and i been on birth control pills and depo shot before and i am not saying that one day it wont hit me but it is definitely not as serious as they are trying to put it. Half of the time the concern is in women who smoke and are over 35 y o. Also how do you react if you have a crazy headache and you take a pain medicine and then you go out and end up drinking. When we all know most of pain medicine instructions do advice not to consume alcohol while on this medicine because it can cause inner stomach bleeding. But as we all know it never happened to one of us, unless you took whole a lot of medicine and drank whole a lot of alcohol. So again it is not a serious problem as they state but they are trying to escape possibilities which are rare but are there is overdose on one of two things, or both. Clearly if they are telling you this there is a reason for it. U R not supposed to smoke at all. smoking affects liver which is the site of metabolism of many drugs including pills Yep, really. The reason is blood clots and possibility of stroke. It happens, I've seen it but it is rare. If you smoke less than a pack a week I wouldn't put you in a 'risk' category; but heads up girlfriend--taking BC even without smoking women have had strokes. It's a risk for taking the BC. If you don't like the risks consider not using BC prescribed and find other alternatives which are plenty available. Blessings Physician the primary reason you are warned not to smoke is because nicotine is a vaso-constrictor (that means it makes your blood vessels smaller). it decreases the capillary circulation throughout the body, minimizing blood flow to the periphery etc. birth control pills are hormones that increase the clotting tendency of your blood. increased tendency to clot combined with vaso-constriction can cause more circulatory problems and can lead to something called a thrombosis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/thrombosis... the warnings for bc about stroke, etc. are warnings based off the possibility that you could develop a clot in a small vessel in your brain. as for the frequency with which this occurs...its really not that common. the only concern is that smoking can increase the risk...what it increases it to, I honestly don't know. It increases the risk of blood clot, stroke, and heart attack already associated with hormonal birth control. Don't do it. |
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