Thread: can anesthesia affect cycle?

Are you meaning that you have already gotten your period? When I saw the title of your thread it got me to wondering. I have a post just beneath yours about how my period has changed and about 3 weeks ago I had my wisdom teeth removed while under anesthesia...If anyone has info about this that would help, i'd like to know too-

Originally Posted by nyr_94

I had oral surgery with an anesthetic 2 days ago. I am on birth control and i'm not due for another week and a half. I am also taking amoxicillin for a tooth infection which I was told can affect birth control. Can any or all of this bring on my cycle so early? This has never happened to me.

I think it can - amoxicillin or any antibiotic upsets your system ...i dont know if you were unconcious with your surgery but i dont think this would affect your periods ...its prob the antibiotic ...which can affect birth control , you need to be taking EXTRA protection with birth control as well as taking the pill, until you have finished the antibiotics .
catherine

i too had this problem, was only half way thru my pill packet, had only taken it for just over a week, had to take amoxicillin from tuesday til yesterday and my cycle has started even tho i was taking the pill. why is this?

anesthesia can affect the way your liver metabolizes the birth control. The same thing happened to me after I had surgery back in September for an ovarian adhesion... I continued to take my birth control as directed and my periods would come 1 week early and then they just kept coming earlier and earlier until i was constantly spotting... in december I went back to my OB/GYN which is when he explained to me the issue with anesthesia affecting the way your liver metabolizes your birth control. The best thing to do is stop taking the birth control for an entire month and then after that start it the sunday after you start your period. It helped me alot, but it freaked me out until i found out what was wrong. Hope that is helpful