catheryn

Hello,

I'm currently not on birth control because I had a spurt of high blood pressure caused by my T1 diabetes. A few days ago my boyfriend and I have a condom breakage incident and I decided to go to the walk in clinic in my neighborhood to get a prescription for Plan B because I couldn't get in to see my family doctor for a week. My insurance would cover it if it were a prescription, and the prescription price itself before insurance coverage was half the cost of buying it over the counter.

The doctor I saw decided instead of the Plan B I requested to give me an overdose of Alesse. When I took the prescription to the pharmacy the pharmacist was baffled as to why this was chosen over Plan B as the overdose, while effective as emergency contraception, causes HORRIBLE nausea. He called the doctor to confirm the prescription and ask why he didn't request Plan B and the doctor told him he wouldn't prescribe the Plan B and to fill the Alesse prescription.

The pharmacist gave me some gravol to take with the alesse and warned me I'd probably have extreme nausea. And he was right. The first dose was ok (I took it before bed), but the next day I couldn't take the gravol because I had to go to work and gravol knocks me out pretty heavily since I have a small build and I ended up running to the bathroom at work during a meeting and barely making it before I became violently ill.

My question is: why would this doctor prescribe Alesse when Plan B is much easier on your stomach? Did it have something to do with the fact that I'm diabetic (I'm kind of skeptical on this since the pharmacist was advocating for the Plan B and I was told by my family doctor that Alesse is an awful choice for diabetics), or did he just want to "teach me a lesson"? Thankfully I managed to keep the medication down for 2 hours which was enough for it to be effective, but I really think prescribing a medication with such sever side effects when there were other better alternatives.

Any thoughts?