I've used Plan B twice and had NO sickness, stomachache or side effects. I think it can vary, just like everything else, but MOST people do not feel any side effects. Some probably feel a little, some feel more. Some exagerate what they feel. My husband gets a stomachache if he takes a vitamin pill on an empty stomach; we each have a different tolerance for different vitamins and medications.

But do not believe these people who say the Plan B pill makes you sick for days. False.

The second time I took it, they'd made special packaging for the "morning after" aspect of the pill, and it was packaged with 2 pills, one for right away and one for 12 hours later.

The first time I took it years earlier, they hadn't starting marketing it seperately for it's "morning after" effects, it was still mostly used as a regular birth control pill. So, the pharmacist just gave me a regular 30-day pack of that pill (don't remember the brand name) and I was instructed to take 2 pills right away, 2 more 12 hours later and throw the rest of the pack away.

Leave it to the antis to create false scare tactics and mystify something as new and scary that has actually been in use comfortably for years.

>>I can see people not taking Plan B because of the side effects and chancing it.>>

Plan B is just an existing birth control pill women have been taking for years. It's just marketed with a new Name and packaged in a handy 4-pack. It doesn't have any more side effects than when used as a birth control pill, which is few a far between. That whole myth that birth control pills have lots of side effects is left over from half a century ago before the formulations were refined. Taking Plan B may cause a stomach ache sincef you take 2 at once, followed by 2 12 hours later, conparable to taking a big vitamin pill on an empty stomach. Most bottles say not to take vitamin pills on an empty stomach, but they don't get a rep for having "side effects". No big deal. Antis like to spread false myths of side effects to scare women from using birth control pills and Plan B.

Uh, yeah, because when I think of a romantic evening with a guy, I think of him suggesting that we prevent pregnancy after our little tryst by me taking high doses of hormone pills, rather than him suggesting he wear a condom.

Most women are not totally stupid and *are* looking, very hard, for some sign that a man has any consideration for them whatsoever before they will sleep with him. We all understand that most men don't like condoms very much, so when a guy brings along condoms he says "I care enough about your welfare -- as well as me getting laid -- that I offer up a means of protecting you from pregnancy that really isn't ideal for my pleasure." If, however, he brings along pills for *us* to take, he's saying "I really don't care about you at all, I just wanna stick it in you and then not have to pay child support." Most women are just not stupid enough or desperate enough to fall for that. Even if it's not widely known that the morning-after pill has side effects (and I have seen several posters point out that the side effects I experienced, and many other women have experienced, was because we weren't actually using Plan B, but fudging it with megadoses of birth control pills, so I can't actually say what the side effects of Plan B are), few women like the idea of *all* the risk and *all* the responsibility in sex falling on *them.* Which is what happens when Mr. Lovegod shows up with Plan B instead of condoms.

Besides, condoms protect me from Mr. Lovegod's diseases, too. Plan B doesn't.

So, let's see. Greater sacrifice on his part and greater protection for me, vs. greater sacrifice on my part and less protection for me. If he's the one trying to make the argument, how is the second argument going to convince me nearly as well as the first? And *men* are not stupid and will quickly realize that bringing condoms along is a better guarantee of getting laid than bringing Plan B (not to mention that *if* Mr. Lovegod's intended *objet d'amour* really is one of these rapacious bitches who likes to get knocked up so she can scam child support out of a guy for 18 years that people like Brightstar apparently know so many of, Mr. Lovegod isn't protecting himself at all, because she doesn't actually have to take the pills he gives her; he can only be sure of protecting *his* interests if he wears the condom... and what if she's the one with the disease?)

So no, sad but true, I don't think we'll see an epidemic of men toting along Plan B to their romantic evenings. It just won't work to get them laid nearly as reliably as toting condoms along will. (Yes, some women are stupid and desperate, but many of those are probably already having completely unprotected sex. And most of them aren't the kind of women men actually want all that badly, else they wouldn't be desperate.)

Thanks Anne, yes, I did forget that major point. Honestly, I can see people not taking Plan B because of the side effects and chancing it. But I guess that's a whole other issue. RU486 isn't all that much fun either.

You’re getting Plan B (emergency birth control) and RU486 (the abortion pill) confused. Plan B stops a pregnancy before it takes place - that’s why it’s essential it be taken so quickly after unprotected sex. Plan B is not useful to a woman wanting to terminate an existing pregnancy.

When someone goes to take Plan B is it because she had sex without contraception or is it because she knows she conceived (which is very difficult to do in the first few days)? I'm curious because by learning about the horrible side-effects here, I'm wondering if people take it "just in case". And if so, maybe that's why the horrible side effects aren't talked about so much. People will be scared to take that on without knowing definitely if they're pregnant. Maybe they'll think that they should wait until they know for sure and then pursue an old -fashioned abortion.

And as for the guy bringing Plan B on a date, if he can bother to go to the drug store for that, can't he just as easily pick up some condoms? Plan B is for people who do NOT plan ahead.