Where do you get your birth control s...

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Registered: 12-30-2003
Where do you get your birth control s...
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Thu, 07-27-2006 - 11:29am

Where do you get your birth control supplies?



  • A local pharmacy
  • A discount pharmacy: Wal-Mart, Kmart, Costco etc.
  • A doctor or clinic
  • Over the Internet / Mail order
  • Other – please explain


You will be able to change your vote.


      Jill

    

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Registered: 04-18-2003
Thu, 07-27-2006 - 5:44pm

I voted other because I like to be different. I am on depo while I breastfeed. I pick it up at a local pharmacy and take it to my doctor’s office to be given the shot. It’s inconvenient but it’s only every three months.
Still waiting for Implanon to become available in my area…
Holly

Holly
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Registered: 04-07-2002
Thu, 07-27-2006 - 9:12pm

I have an unusual situation. I am an American who just married a Canadian, and have not yet qualified for Canadian residency. So, I can't go to Canadian doctors without paying a huge out-of-pocket expense. I still have my American Medicare, so I use that to get my scripts from Planned Parenthood. Since Canadian pharmacies no longer fill American prescriptions (thank you, Canadian pharmacists for cowering under U.S. Pharma's bullying:/!), every month when it is time to get my bc renewed, I have to drive 80 miles to Buffalo, where I get them at Rite-Aid or Walgreen's.

Sheesh!

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Beth "Petrouchka"

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Registered: 12-30-2003
Thu, 07-27-2006 - 10:30pm

Hi Beth, welcome back!


      Jill

    

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Registered: 04-07-2002
Fri, 07-28-2006 - 10:21am

I should be getting residency by December. Lord, I hope! But, all last winter it was the same story...this has been going on for 13 months so far.

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Beth "Petrouchka"