could this have lowered the effectiveness of my birth control?
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 at
11:23 am
I’ve been on the Implanon arm implant birth control for 2 yrs. Ive been feelin
some pregnancy symptoms lately. i take maca root powder for my
depression but it also is used for helpin women get pregnant. Could this have interferred with
the effectiveness of my birth control? I also heard if you are pregnant on this implant it
wont show up on an at home test…has anyone gotten pregnant on implanon?
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I do know that some antidepressants can affect birth control. I did a quick search for maca root and it seems that it can affect birth control adversely (I’m attaching an ehow article, which I know isn’t exactly scientific, but it’s something).
If you’re really worried, see if you can get a blood pregnancy test done at the doctor (which would eliminate concerns of the implant affecting the home test). You can get the results before you even leave the office.
if you’re pregnant, you will produce HCG which will be detected by a pregnancy test. i could no
evidence that home pregnancy tests don’t work if you are using Implanon. it’s contains
etonogestrel which is a progestin similar to norgestrel. also, could not find any reports of
maca root decreasing the effect of hormonal contraceptives. on the other hand, i didn’t read
anything that said it didn’t. not enough is known about maca at this time to predict one way
or the other.