Are You at Risk If You Are a Smoker and Prescribed Medroxyprogesterone ?

The risk is thought to be very small for smokers under 35 years old. You should call the nurses' line at your dr's office to get more info. Here is a related post from Planned Parenthood on the risk of taking hormones (which includes birth control and the progesterone pill that you are taking) and on quitting smoking. https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/teens/ask-experts...

You might be interested to know that you faced the same risk for years, whether you knew it or not, when you were smoking with mirena.

Sometimes pharmacists know more about this stuff than doctors. If your doctor wasn't able to provide you with the information when she/he prescribed it, I would call/visit my pharmacist.

Let me get this straight, you are a Smoker and you didn’t know that there are side effects from smoking?

Let’s see, tar, rat poison, carcinogens...

Side of effects = brain damage. Stay on that birth control sweetie.

does your doc know that you're a smoker? isn't she a better source than strangers on the internet?

i'd also ask your pharmacist.
khairete
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