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[-] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 46 points 2 weeks ago

My sister had her first child because her birth control failed due to another medication making it less effective.

No one warned her about that being a thing that can happen with that particular med. Not her doctor. Not the pharmacist. No one said a thing.. which is super fucked up. She was married at the time, but still. They were not ready for a kid(their words)

This was almost 20 years ago so I don't remember which med it was, and I'm hoping the medical community is better about this now.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 30 points 2 weeks ago

It's really honestly amazing that there are so many people in this world that don't understand that, A, married couples use birth control and have regular sex and, B, that birth control can fail.

Are they all incels are something?

[-] blady_blah@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

"Your child its a miracle from god!" - anti abortionists

[-] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Unfortunately, a lot of people who are under the influence of religion believe that marriage is for creating children, and many of those people received very little to no sex ed.

The ideas that "every child is a blessing" and "God will provide" are used to handwave away the importance of people's bodily autonomy and to deflect the reality that people can and should have access to the resources to chose if, when and how many children they have.

I've taken to calling them reproductive luddites. They're afraid of contraceptive technology.

[-] BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

PSA: Antibiotics will make your birth control less effective.

Also no they do not warn most people about that.

[-] xorollo@leminal.space 11 points 2 weeks ago

Came here to say this. It's not some edge case medicine that people rarely encounter. Just you had a sinus infection and now you're pregnant!

[-] PrimeErective@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago

I thought I read that grapefruit can also cause problems with certain ones

[-] mst@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

Wait a moment, antibiotics will break condoms? /s

[-] Saleh@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I have been called a weirdo many times for always reading the information that comes with medications. I still do, even for stuff i have taken many times like Tylenol.

Of course doctors and pharmacists should inform their patients and have an eye on these things. But the full legally required known documentation is always with the medication. And humans are prone to error, especially in a field as complex as medicine/pharma.

Read the things before starting the medication. Always.

[-] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

I read them too after what happened to my sister.

However, I think that certain types of side effects(life altering ones Tardive dyskinesia) and medications that are known to mess with hormonal birth control should have their own little text box right on the front where people can clearly see it.

Throwing a long ass pamphlet in there and calling it informed consent doesn't really cut it for me. There's a lot of room for improvement.

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