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Does the prescription medicines Nitrofurantoin or Meclizine decrease the effectiveness of your birth control?

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Does the prescription medicines Nitrofurantoin or Meclizine decrease the effectiveness of your birth control?

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I took Nitrofurantoin recently and was told by my doctor that it did decrease the contraceptive pills effectiveness and to use extra protection from the first day you take the antibiotic, throughtout the duration of your prescribed course and then for 2 weeks after.