vaginapagina | Blood in the middle of an HBC pack and Ephedrine. (Reply)

Does ephedrine contraindicate oral contraceptives?

I'm asking because I began taking ephedrine yesterday in a "stacker" with aspirin and caffeine to help me get over a plateau. A few years ago, I lost a lot of weight (90 lbs.), and now it's beginning to creep back on -- I can't lose it, so I'm turning to ephedrine for temporary relief.

I am in the middle of my birth control pack with about a week and a half left. I have not missed a pill this month, and I have taken the pill within a two to three hour window of every dose. I have only had sex three, maybe four, times. That was at the beginning of my pack.

This morning, I woke up around 10AM (roughly 16 hours after my dose of ephedrine), went to the restroom, and there was blood on the tissue paper. It was unlike the usual blood I see.

Typically, my blood is a vibrant, dark red that wipes onto the toilet paper in streaks, like a really concentrated water color. Today, it contained a lot of mucus and the blood was pretty clumpy. The clump was about 2 - 3 inches in circumference.

Does anyone have any guesses at what this could be?

I take a pregnancy test between all of my pill packs because I usually skip my period. Roughly a week and a half ago, I took a test on my third urination of the day (I wake up to pee a LOT in the early morning), and the test was negative.