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check with your own health care giver before using emergency contraception,
even if you have the pills from a previous episode of failed contraception. |
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THE
FIRST STEP
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 The
FIRST STEP in using any emergency contraception is to do a pregnancy test.
Various pregnancy tests have different ways of showing positive (you're
pregnant) and negative (you're NOT pregnant) results. If you are
PREGNANT, call your health care provider immediately. DO NOT TAKE ANY PILLS.
If you are not pregnant, go to the next step and choose an emergency contraceptive.
(PREVEN®, the newly approved "Morning After Pill" has a pregnancy test
as part of the kit.) |
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THE
NEXT STEP
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| If you have a NEGATIVE pregnancy test,
choose the Emergency Contraceptive Method you want to use. |
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PREVEN®
EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTIVE KIT
Using the PREVEN® Emergency
Contraceptive Kit (adapted from package insert)
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Read Patient information book
with detailed patient information.
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Use pregnancy test included
to help determine if there is a pregnancy from sex earlier in the month
or last month; and
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If test is negative, take the
first dose of 2 pills within 72 hours after having unprotected sex., and
the second dose of two pills 12 hours later.
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A three-week follow-up visit
with your health care professional is recommended.
The PREVEN®
Emergency Contraceptive Kit contains a pregnancy test to rule out an existing
pregnancy resulting from intercourse that occurred earlier in the current
menstrual cycle or the previous cycle. If a positive pregnancy result is
obtained, the pills in the PREVEN® Kit should not be taken. |
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COMBINATION
BIRTH CONTROL PILLS (Those containing both Estrogen and Progesterone)
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Take FOUR pills of a low-dose
Combination Birth Control Pill (30–35 µg ethinyl estradiol) OR TWO
pills of a high-dose Combination Birth Control Pill (50 µg ethinyl
estradiol) within 72 hours of unprotected intercourse.
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Take FOUR more low-dose pills
OR TWO more high-dose pills in 12 hours. This will be a total of
8 LOW-DOSE PILLS or 4 HIGH-DOSE PILLS taken in 24 hours.
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If you do not know which you
have, you should have already checked with your health care provider.
They will know.
 PROGESTIN
ONLY BIRTH CONTROL PILLS (Those containing Progestin ONLY)
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Take 10 Postinor® pills
(75 µg of levonorgestrel each) or 20 Ovrette® pills (75 µg
norgestrel each) within 48 hours of unprotected intercourse.
Take the same number of
pills in 12 hours, for a total of 20 Postinor® or 40 Ovrette® more
tablets in 12 hours.
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Intra-Uterine
Device (IUD)
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After taking a pregnancy test,
Call your health care provider as soon as possible after unprotected intercourse.
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Make an appointment to have
an IUD inserted.
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Make sure she/he knows this
is for emergency contraception.
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The IUD must be inserted within
5 days of unprotected intercourse.
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ONLY THE COPPER T CAN BE USED
FOR EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION.
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| Emergency Contraception
is just that - FOR EMERGENCY SITUATIONS. It should not be used as
your only method of birth control. |
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