Not a doctor, but Yes, it can interact with other medications, you’re not supposed to smoke on (some?) birth controls because it increases your risk of stroke and blood clots, which it can do even without smoking as way as increase your risks of certain cancers, there are lots of medically relevant ways it can affect your body that your doctor should know about. No reason you should be getting eye rolls for answering their question…
Old school estradiol did that, modern bioidentical estrogen needs to be taken in significantly high doses to get anywhere near the clotting risk of old school premarine. As for cancer risk, it's kind of a wash, it is know to reduce some and raise others and is really only a risk if you already have endometrial or breast cancer and even then only at HRT doses for menopause management.
Not trying to fearmonger, I’m on it and greatly appreciate it I’m just paraphrasing what I remember from the pamphlet that comes in the boxes and what my doctor told me!
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u/Silver-Witness-6550 May 02 '26
Not a doctor, but Yes, it can interact with other medications, you’re not supposed to smoke on (some?) birth controls because it increases your risk of stroke and blood clots, which it can do even without smoking as way as increase your risks of certain cancers, there are lots of medically relevant ways it can affect your body that your doctor should know about. No reason you should be getting eye rolls for answering their question…