URGENT!!! can antibiotics make your birth control not work

[Ashweyy]

I am on the Yasmin birth control pill and i was wondering, i was on anitibiotics from the 27 to the 31. Do antibitoics make birth control pills not work?  Do you think its okay to have sex friday the 7th? Will my pills be working regularly then? PLease help me.
THanks
Ashley

[danielle736]

I was prescribed nitrofurantoin mono 100 and i had unprotected sex once but am on birthcontrol loestrin 23. I was on this kind of medication before and did the same thing and did not get pregnant. what are the chances?

[Ashweyy]

IM not taking antibitoics anymore ive been off them for a week

[thexy]

Don't take any chances, use a back up method.

[Tamicmt]

Yes, yes, yes

[nicole83]

make sure you use protecting when taking an antibiotic i got pregnant that way. birthcontrol does not work with the use of antibiotics

[Ashweyy]

so i should use a back up protection im on the row of active pills. and will take mt last one saturday so should i be good then u think ive been takin my pill since last friday && that will be a week of takin my pills w/o being on antibiotics.

[lillady0505]

I just looked online and here it was one specialist said:

If you're on an antibiotic and on a birth control pill, the safest thing to do is to use a backup method for extra protection,"  ****** said.

*****recommends using backup contraception for the remainder of the pack of birth control pills for that month. If a patient switches to a new pack while on the antibiotics, that means the backup contraception should be used for that entire new pack

[jennifer63]

i have always heard and understood that antibiotics can lessen the effectiveness of birth control.

[lillady0505]

Yes-Antibiotics can mess with bc-I would use back up protection if you don't want to chance getting prego