Hey ladies.. does anyone know if diet pills - specifically the ones that contain ephedra - can affect your menstrual cycle or cause problems with ttc? I have searched on-line and haven't found anything that says it causes problems.. but just want to make sure. I was taking a supplement called TriMethyLean once a day (10mg ephedra) for a few weeks just recently to help me lose weight and it just hit me that it may have affected my cycle..

I don't think you should be taking anything while ttc, I thought ephedra was bad to take anyway? sorry I can't be more help

Ephedra was actually banned to be sold in certain doses because people were taking too much. But small amounts is "supposed to be" okay. Anyway I did stop taking it, but it just occurred to me that I hadn't considered it as being the reason for my disappearing period... I guess I can ask my ob on Thursday as well. Thanks for the input anyway

Obviously I would not feed my baby a diet pill.. I was not incinuating that I would want to take it while pregnant. What I was saying was that because I WAS taking it for a couple of weeks, I thought that might be the reason for my late period. All I was trying to do was boost my weight loss, which it did work and it worked well. I stopped taking it as soon as we had unprotected sex.

Most diet pills arent really a good idea to take anyways.
Aside for the diet pills, weight change can affect your AF which in turn affects TTC.

That's true too.. I should probably stop being so hard on myself and concentrate a little better on my health..

Thank you so much ladies for your input on this..