Cheap, alternative source of hormonal birth control?
My yearly fight with Planned Parenthood looms. I thought maybe I could avoid the whole thing by finding a cheap, prescription-free source of hormonal birth control online. I haven't had any luck yet. It seems that cheap and no-prescription are mutually exclusive.
My poison of choice is Loestrin-FE. Anybody have any sources?
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i don't know if you it would be in MIMS (do you even have that in the States?) but if you could find out all the names it's marketed under, that might help? I've been given the exact same bc pill, before, but under a different name which meant it was subsidised. weird...
But have you ever considered an IUD? Your yearly fight with PP could disappear for awhile (5 to 12 years, actually) if you got either Mirena or Paragard. It's not for everyone, for sure, but you'd probably get a huge discount based on the fact that your income supports (if I'm counting right) yourself and 4 other people? Starting price is about $800 for either one, but I know some PP affiliates in the country that get good Title X funding can get that cost down to zero (or close to it) if you fall under certain income guidelines. No yearly Rx to worry about, no Paps and followup hassles to deal with to get the Rx, nothing...once you get it put it in you're PP free til you get it taken out 5-12 years later! Thought I'd throw it out there in case you haven't considered it. If it's not an option you like than I hope you find some cheap LoE somehow without the Pap and f/u hassles. Good luck 
ETA: You may already know this but I think Loestrin FE and Microgestin 1/20 are the same thing besides the inactive ingredients, and I believe Micro is cheaper. It might be worth searching for that as well as the Loestrin to see if anything turns up??
seems to be a no-brainer that if you release the doctors from liability for breaching protocol, then there should be no issue with writing the prescription. it may even be reportable. i'm still not 100% clear on why you don't want to know if you have cancerous or precancerous cells, but you are 100% right that it's your choice, not theirs.
can you threaten to report them to their licensing board? have you gotten any of this in writing?
if you care to ever, i'd be interested in more on that topic. not because you owe anyone explanation on how you manage your own medical care but because i find that interesting. i'm going through some health shit, lots of tests and doctors and paying through the nose for 15 minutes of their time. the concept of a routine test being wholly unnecessary is strange to me. i just paid over a thousand dollars for a test that may turn out to be unnecessary or have to be repeated because i wasn't given proper common sense instructions first. if it were my car, i could bring it back to the garage and make them redo it at their cost. but with medicine? nope.
but i'm a total libertarian about medical care, we ought to be able to get what we pay for, even when our doctors disagree. it's called informed consent for a reason.
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Could you explain what that is? If we have it in the States, I haven't heard about it yet.