Diarrhea...

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Diarrhea...
1
Wed, 06-09-2004 - 11:58am
I've heard that the time frame for having diahrrea after taking your pill is within 2 hours (to consider the pill a missed pill). Do I need to worry about having diahrrea if it's more than two hours after taking my pill? It would seem to me that having diahrrea would decrease the effectiveness of the pill no matter when it occured, even if it's 5 or 6 hours after taking the pill. Is the 2 hour time frame accurate?
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-19-2003
In reply to: estakia
Wed, 06-09-2004 - 1:37pm
The key here is that you need to allow enough time for the pill to be in your stomach to be dissolved and absorbed in the small intestine. The time that this takes is estimated to be about two hours. Diarrhea is a problem if the body is trying to evacuate the contents of the digestive system before the pill can be dissolved and absorbed. Once the hormones get into the bloodstream, they aren't coming back out unless the liver or kidneys are filtering them out.

Make sense?

Judie
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