{"id":19230,"date":"2022-02-28T23:44:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T23:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=19230"},"modified":"2022-02-28T23:44:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T23:44:23","slug":"interaction-between-atripla-and-yasmin-oral-contraceptive-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/19230","title":{"rendered":"Interaction between Atripla and Yasmin (oral contraceptive pill)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>As Atripla contains efavirenz, there is an interaction between Atripla and Yasmin.<\/p>\n<p>Efavirenz reduces how well Yasmin works preventing. This means efavirenz prevents the hormonal activity that Yasmin would have. However this is only when considering using Yasmin as contraceptive.<\/p>\n<p>However in your case, as you are using Yasmin to manage an ovarian cyst, the required level of Yasmin in your body may be a different level as to what is used in contraception. Are you able to speak to a doctor or pharmacist about this interaction?<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and thanks for all your advice. Lately I started using Yasmin (oral contraceptive) for an ovarian cyst. Is there any contra-indication to use it when I am on ARV Atripla? I have to use these contraceptive for 3 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-drug-interactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}