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I Have Pain In My Elbow. Can It Be A Side Effect Of Birth Control Pill?

i have some pain in my elbow (for a month)and both my pinkys feeling are numb and sometimes when i am going for a jog i feel weak in my right leg.(I have been taking birth control for 7 years now and I recently switched for another .now i am taking loestrin24fe(2 months now) what is it? help. (i am 39 yrs old.)
Sun, 20 Mar 2011
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From the symptoms it looks like calcium deficiency (osteopenia- May be). Ur age is not very suggestive but ur nearing 40's. Get urself a bone densinometry and start on appropriate treatment.
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I Have Pain In My Elbow. Can It Be A Side Effect Of Birth Control Pill?

From the symptoms it looks like calcium deficiency (osteopenia- May be). Ur age is not very suggestive but ur nearing 40 s. Get urself a bone densinometry and start on appropriate treatment.