Can I Take Diet Pills With Birth Control

Dear Ask The Doctor: Can i take diet pills when i have birth control

Dear Sofia: There are no studies yet which prove a definite interaction between diet pills and oral contraceptives. Given the fact that diet pills tend to speed up the metabolism, which causes birth control doses to break down earlier than usual, it hasn’t been confirmed as such that diet pills decrease the effectiveness of birth control pills. However, you should be careful when you purchase diet pills as the market is full of anti-obesity drugs. Xenical (Orlistat) is the only weight loss drug approved by the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA). Diet pills can cause some side effects at times, like diarrhea or vomiting. In such cases, your birth control pill will be expelled before it is absorbed in the body. Therefore, it is necessary to speak to your gynecologist about the right diet pill for your body that does not have adverse reactions on your birth control measures.