Can Your Mood Stabilizer Interfere With Birth Control?

The answer is yes, some of them can. Carbamazepine (sold as Tegretol and other brand names) is especially known for causing contraceptive failures, and because this drug also has a higher than normal risk for causing birth defects, secondary methods of birth control such as condoms and, possibly, increasing the dosage of birth control medication is recommended. Trileptal (oxcarbazepine) may also interfere with contraceptives. Birth control pills containing estrogen or progestin, contraceptive Read Full PostCan Your Mood Stabilizer Interfere With Birth Control? originally appeared on About.com Bipolar Disorder on Sunday, June 30th, 2013 at 14:16:01.Permalink | Comment | Email this
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