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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
>>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.
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.
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