For the Ladies. Help!! Pot and Birth Control

[beachguy in thongs]

About, three and a-half years, my g/f use pill, smoke pot. Finish eating, beachguy must do.

[pandorasbox]

Yeah, the effect is usually negligible, but it does cause a problem in some women... especially overweight women or women that have other biological factors or take other drugs that increase the activity of that particular enzyme system.

[beachguy in thongs]

If you are less than 30 years old, and have no significant personal or family history of blood clots, then your risk of developing a blood clot while on the birth control pill is quite low.
http://www.health.rutgers.edu/discus...on/default.asp

[pandorasbox]

Yes. I don't recall saying otherwise...?

But you won't get one from marijuana anyway, 40 years old or not. Cigarette smoke (nicotine is the culprit) is the only kind of smoke (that is commonly smoked) that increases the risk of DVT.

[Racerx]

I am going to speak for my girlfriend here. She asked her doctor this same question, and she was a cigarette smoker as well. Her doctor very seriously told her to stop smoking cigarettes while on birth control (didnt help at the time unfortunetly, but I have since nagged her enough that she quit months ago), but when the subject of marijuana came up, her doctor essentially told her that there are many other reasons to not smoke weed, but that is not specifically one of them. My gf has a history of migraines and stress headaches and cannabis is still the only drug that immediatly gets rid of it, her doctor doesnt neccessarily promote it but does support it.

[shinysticker]

hey girl, get that depo shot, its great!

[birdgirl73]

Yes. I don't recall saying otherwise...?

But you won't get one from marijuana anyway, 40 years old or not. Cigarette smoke (nicotine is the culprit) is the only kind of smoke (that is commonly smoked) that increases the risk of DVT.

Hiya, Pandora! You'll think this is interesting. There's a team of researchers and physicians in Dallas at Southwestern Medical Center currently finishing a five-year study related to marijuana use and birth control, and they've found an increased risk of DVTs in the weed-smokers on oral contraceptives. They know this goes against the current thinking that there's only increased risk from nicotine/cigarettes, but they've established a link between weed-smoking and increased coagulation that puts weed smokers at some greater risk--and apparently puts even non-Pill-users at higher risk of DVTs or clots of other kinds. They're in the process of writing these findings now, and i think the study'll be published next year.

The Pill being as reliable as it is when used correctly, I sometimes wonder if it wouldn't be just as easy to put smoking Pill users routinely on some simple anti-platelet or anti-coagulant therapy routinely to help eliminate those risks, but I suppose no one wants the risk of childbearing-age women getting accidentally pregnant while on potentially teratogenic meds.

[trippies]

actually, shiny and i would like to update, DON"T get the depo, it sucks. Lots of awful side effects (luckily we haven't had TOO many problems with it) but after doign some research we both agree its no good and she's not gonna take it again

[jamstigator]

Thanks to birdgirl, I learned a new word today: teratogenic! Example: 'I find that punching pregnant women in the stomach is far too teratogenic an activity for me.'

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[YouD0nt]

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lol. I feel sorry for some girls now, It sucks to know that you can't smoke marijuana if you want to stay un-pregnant.. and most definetley want to stay unpregnant.