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drugs make birth control not work?
17/f. well i've been on Ocella, my birth control, for about a year and a half. i'll admit, i party and do drugs, but not in an addictive way. i don't want a lecture on it. my question is, this month i've missed 5-6 pills on accident, and took them the next day. in addition, i've smoked ALOT of weed, some DMT, dropped one hit of acid, and snorted a line of meth 5 or 6 times. could these make my pills ineffective? besides missing a bunch. my mom told me acid can; it made hers not work and she got pregnant at 16 from it. plus, my boyfriend and i have unprotected sex 10 or more times a month, if that info helps. help/opinions?
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drugs make you ugly :/ especially meth... i dont think you want your teath to turn DISGUSTING.. and just look nasty... idk thats just my opinion
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Yes, it can render your hormonal birth control completely useless.
Even alcohol messes with your birth control pills, believe it or not. The alcohol makes the body break-down the pills in a slower fashion, which creates more of an opportunity to wind up not being protected for a period of time during that digestion.
Not taking the pills every single day also puts you at a higher risk to become pregnant, even if you take the pill the next day. To be as fully protected as the pill allows you have to take them every single day at the same time. That's one reason why women get pregnant so easily while on birth control pills.
It would probably be "better" chances if you were taking these sorts of drugs in an addictive manner because your body would be more accustomed to the way it changed during the highs. Since you don't, your metabolism is all over the place. One day you might break-down and digest a birth control pill in 20 minutes while the very next day it will take you 20 hours. It happens.
Since you also are using various drugs in various ways your body probably doesn't ovulate on time, even if your periods are normal. During ovulation is usually your most fertile time. This is why a lot of women try to keep track of it by checking their vaginal mucus, body temperature, what they eat/drink daily, and tracking their menstrual cycles. Even if your cycles are coming on time, or even absent, you may still be ovulating. Birth control pills try to prevent that ovulation but with your drug usage the way it is you very well could be ovulation multiple times a month even. Nobody knows and you won't be able to really tell unless you get pregnant ;)
Personally, I would re-think taking the party drugs in case I were to accidentally become pregnant or plan to become pregnant in the future. There are studies coming out that even marijuana has long-term effects on the female reproductive organs and may alter the DNA structure of the eggs within her ovaries. That's kind of scary to think about. I mean, just because you partied for a year you might wind up with a mentally retarded baby six years later. Yeah, not good.
Anyway though, that's your decision and what-not. I just suggest that you add more "protection" to your birth control. I would say pick up some condoms and use them regularly. You may also want to look into some spermicidal foam to add to that. Using as many methods of protection is always wise, but especially so in this case.
(Also note that NO form of "protection" protects you from contracting STDs)
So, if you're going to continue with the drugs then at least try to be safer when it comes to pregnancy. Use as many forms of protection as you can and try to keep up with your pills.
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"Yes it can.. On most birth control labels it does say to ask a doctor before use of alcohol, drugs, and any type of prescription drug."
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Drugs and alcohol can definitely effect how well your birth control pills work.
There's a certain way to do birth control... if it's not done THAT way, then it's accuracy percentage goes down (accuracy's the only word that I can think of right now)...
Basically, if you do drugs, drink, miss pills, take them at different times each day, etc. they won't be as effective as they could be.
Basically, there's not much point in you taking the pills if you're doing all of that because they're going to be just as effective as using a condom, except the condom may be much more effective at this point.
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