how to ask mom..

[nycphoto]

Go to your doc get a script and fill it on your own. Go to a planned parent hood doc so that you don't have to be under your mother insurance. Your parents have nothing to do with your sex life. If you want to be on the pill do it behind her back.
However know the consecuences. The pill have only one funtion and it does not protect you from STD's. So....

 

[Willing and Unsure]

I didn't see these suggestions in any of the other posts so here goes.
I believe you can go to the schools health dept and get them really cheap and you won't need to use the parents insurance. Also, the local health clinic generally provides them very inexpensively. Either of these should get you the pills at or below what your parents insurance would have you pay.

see, if you want the prescription for taht first time, most doctors will require a gynecological exam. At most colleges, the exam doesnt cost you anything, but the lab work does (a.k.a. the pap smear analysis). That's the part the parents would see and question (it runs around $80 here on my campus before insurance).

The other thing is that everyone keeps saying that campus places will be cheaper. This is true, but the cost of the pill has gone up the last few years. When I first went on it, the one I'm taking cost $9 a month. Now (3.5 years later), it's $39 a month, and that's on campus. It's the cheapest place around here to be getting it, and that is before any insurance coverage. From what I've found, that's actually the general price for most of the pills no matter where you go (Walgreens mine costs $43 dollars a month before any insurance).

 

[hoodooman]

at some point your body and your sex life are no one's business but your own and you get to choose the point...go to a clinic and be discreet with the pill case.....

their religeon and opinion are not necessarily your business either

 

[SweetErika]

see, if you want the prescription for taht first time, most doctors will require a gynecological exam. At most colleges, the exam doesnt cost you anything, but the lab work does (a.k.a. the pap smear analysis). That's the part the parents would see and question (it runs around $80 here on my campus before insurance).

The other thing is that everyone keeps saying that campus places will be cheaper. This is true, but the cost of the pill has gone up the last few years. When I first went on it, the one I'm taking cost $9 a month. Now (3.5 years later), it's $39 a month, and that's on campus. It's the cheapest place around here to be getting it, and that is before any insurance coverage. From what I've found, that's actually the general price for most of the pills no matter where you go (Walgreens mine costs $43 dollars a month before any insurance).

Well, Ortho has to pay for all of their recent advertising some way, right? I'm watching an Ortho Evra commercial right now, in fact. I didn't realize the cost has increased, though they may be trying to milk the products for all they're worth before losing their patents. Ask your doctor for generics whenever possible, I guess.

 

[Willing and Unsure]

Well, Ortho has to pay for all of their recent advertising some way, right? I'm watching an Ortho Evra commercial right now, in fact. I didn't realize the cost has increased, though they may be trying to milk the products for all they're worth before losing their patents. Ask your doctor for generics whenever possible, I guess.

yeah.. if you're just starting out try one of the generics (they're still around $25 a month).

My body doesnt like generic medications (severe allergies to a lot of them) so I have no choice really. Then again, I prefer to pay a little bit more knowing that I'm not going to be having any major problems afterwards. But that's just my body.

 

[Eating_Scarlett]

I havent read all the responses here, but when I went on the pill when I was nineteen, it was my doctor who suggested it.

He prescribed it for me to regulate my hormones and my period and to clear up my skin, which broke out every time I got my period.

I went home and told my mum my doctor prescribed it for me because

a) It would help my period pain
b) It would reduce my PMS
c) It would clear my skin up

It had nothing to do with sex. You could tell your mother the same.