Plan B Pill in Pakistan

Lifestyle Health & Fitness
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well any pill that is for contraception is really cheap in pakistan even the imported ones and the obvious reason is that the goverment want to control the population rate. i used gynaecocid tab and it was for 30 rupees i think.
and yeah even sathi condom is for 10 rupees.

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yeh saab to tikh heh fine and dandy but when u go to buy them dont u feel ‘shame shame’?:o..lol..:wink:

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:rotfl: @ Plan B

And :eek: @ the price, only 10 Rs.
While we pay $40 for a pack here.

a word of warning to anyone who takes it, prepare for the most hideous mood swings for a week after it.

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my sis took it in pk and she felt SICK ... she felt like throwing up (i think she actually did throwup). couldnt stand heat and couldnt eat. that lasted for abt two days i think...i dont knw anything abt her mood swings. must have been emotional ...

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Nausea and stomach cramps are a given with the plan B!

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Let's judge people who buy Plan B in Pakistan. You guys go first.

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make sure plan A works?

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not trying to be judgmental.. but it's really sad to see this even being discussed...

if you're married, the usual contraception choices wouldn't be a problem to have at home. it seems to me the main purpose of taking Plan B would be a girl having sex with her boyfriend or something and then taking a Plan B to make sure she doesn't get pregnant? i wasn't aware that extra-marital sex was so rampant in Pakistan now that people are discussing it as if it's no big deal?

are you guys so completely de-sensitized to it now?

honestly, i'm very disappointed and sad to see this thread.

(sorry if I mistook the discussion, but it seems like that's why you would need Plan B for the most part)

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when i travel around i dont take normal contraceptions with me and sometimes i just dont have it. plan B is emergency pill.

whereas girls having sex, yes it is so common for high school and university girls. my cousins who attend collages and universities told me that most of their friends have BF and are having sex regularly.
they also showd me videos of their school mates having sex/kissing with their BF. these videos circulate throughout the schools/coll on mobile phones.

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yeah I had heard about videos being distributed and the whole cybercafe thing, but teenagers and young adults whom I know living in Pakistan told me it was still a minority and not widespread or socially accepted. (perhaps it's different depending where you are, social status, etc).

I'm very disturbed to hear that it's a common thing.. that's very wrong. :( parents are clueless and blindly trust their kids? if so, it's time to change that. Allah khair karay.

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why is it called Plan B ?

should be Plan NB (No bacha) pill :P

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you are very close minded, and did not look at other possibilites, and started to judge the thread and the ppl who might at some point need to use plan B due to a situation they are in.

now heres a scenario to consider:

lets say i am married, my husband lives away, in a different city or different country (lets say a neighbouring country), and only visits my country/my city when he gets a chance, for very few days, like 5 days, after being away for 4-5 months.... i am not taking the usual birth control pill during the time he is away (whats the use to subject your body to those hormones in the pill when you dont need them)...
lets say once he was away for 3 months, and after 3 months decided to visit for a few days...and he gives me a very short notice before visiting me, he found out all of a sudden that he could be spared from his job for 4-5 days, he decides to visit me during that time, and only tells me this 2 weeks before his arrival date becaus thats when he found out himself .... now with the usual birth control pill you have to start taking it a month in advance to be effective...
i go to my doctor and ask her for prescription for birth control pill (it is prescription drug where i live)... she tells me when to start taking it, and when it will become effective,.... when she gives me this info, i realize, its probably not gonna work...i tell the doctor my situation, that the husband is arriving at this and this date....what are my birth control options.... she tells me how and why normal birth control pill will not be effective by that date...and she mentions plan b , after asking me other questions, including how long your husband will stay, would he not like to use protection himself (condom) etc... talks to me about spermacides their effectiveness (how it is much lower) and tells me that plan B might be a good option, and writes the plan B prescription for me. there!!!

i go and buy plan B, a married woman, with a perfectly legimite reason...
does that mean that the pharmacist has a right to judge me, or i need to provide an explanation to him/her, and give him/her the whole back story of why i am getting it... does this mean if some one sees me buying it they can be sure that i am having extra-marital sex? and does this mean if some one sees that i am a pakistani woman buying it, can automatically assume that immoral or extra-marital sex is ramapt in pakistan... ?????????

now this is just one scenario...there are other scenarios too , where ppl might need plan B due to perfectly legitmit reasons... so plz think broadly before judging other ppl, and whole of pakistan...just because someone simply asked about a medically available option like plan B on a thread doesnt mean you have to be this disappointed and sad.

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Not at all. :) I understand that it's the best option in emergency situations, such as rape or if a condom fails, or something like that. I know the possibilities, but in most cases, a married couple can easily have the standard contraceptive methods ready available, which would preclude the need for Plan B (in most cases).

One of the cases that don't fit into "most cases" is your scenario. Looking at your scenario, I think it's interesting that you mentioned the husband would not be willing to use protection. Why not? Why should the wife be the one with the burden of doing so? In this situation, I think it's best for the wife to not be on any birth control pill, because as you pointed out, why put up with the side effects and other effects when you don't need to?

It makes much more sense to have condoms available at home, and for the husband to own up to his share of responsibility. It's unfair to just expect or demand the wife to do so on her own.

But, let's say the husband is the type who will not own up. In that case, I agree that the wife has no better option than to settle for the *reactionary *Plan B, since the *precautionary *measures were not an option for her.

Hope that clears it up.

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well i am talking about lahore and its top collages. mostly well off people go to these colleges. most girls in these colleges do have boy friends. my 15 years old cousins class mate was sleeping with her BF since she was 11 and the whole knew, including teachers, knew of it.

when i was in pakistan, i was told by my cousin that one girl from her collage went on out with her boyfriend, took her to a room, dont know if it was with a consent, he called his cousins and friends. they gang raped her. and when she was close to dying threw her outside her collage. the doorman saw girls uniform and told the collage authorities. they contacted her parents. her parents said that she is not their daughter and refused to take her to the hospital and she died there.
this was even on newspaper. and during my several months of stay in pak, i read/heard of so many of such issues.

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ok let me ask you this, what if the wife also prefers her husband not to use condom... because she feels the experience to be different in the other case....

ok too much grown up yucky talk for now, but i hope you now understand that ppl have their legimite reasons always, and they are under no obligation to explain those to others, before making a choice that they think is best for them.... doesn't always mean that they are making immoral or bad choices...

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ah, I see.. thanks for explaining it a bit further. I have a really hard time believing the story about the girl starting when she was 11??

Not to downplay the problem or anything you said, but we also have to keep in mind that it's in our culture and our psyche to exaggerate things as well. I agree this is a serious problem, but maybe not as much as we may be led to believe. It's a bit analogous to the media that projects an image that is not reflective of all of society.

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No problem, we're mature here. In that case, well to be honest she should try and use birth control pills, but if she has no other choice then Plan B would be the way to go. I just hope folks understand that it's really meant as an emergency last resort measure; not something to be used as casually as a condom or traditional contraceptive methods. You can really throw hormonal balances outta whack easily.

And of course, the woman should not have to explain the situation to a pharmacist or anything like that. Although, I believe Plan B should NOT be OTC; it should be prescription only with consent of a doctor, because it's not something that should be seen as a casual approach, for both medical and moral reasons. Having it available will only entice people to engage in more risque/immoral behavior, knowing they can rely on Plan B to get rid of the obvious repercussions (guess they're not worrying about STDs!)

And of course, I'm completely leaving the religious aspect alone, as it's painfully obvious.

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[quote="Sarmad, post:119, topic:175676"]

ah, I see.. thanks for explaining it a bit further. I have a really hard time believing the story about the girl starting when she was 11??"

this is what i was told. i dont know her and have never seen her. only heard her name and her story from my cousins.
after my long stay in pak i dont see this as big issue. girls up there are more open to such issues. with cable in every house its not a big deal now.

those who live out of pak, its hard for them to believe. i was shocked to see the bahaviour and lifestyles of girls in pakistan and my cousins as well.

i was told that collage is to enjoy life than acedemy, which starts from 5-10pm is the time to study and flirt with boys. most acedemies provide co education.

trust it was too much for me to digest but its a reality in lahore and even Rawalpindi

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Thank you!

Sarmad, I'm shocked to see what you thought of a simple question I had. Like Amnaar said, lots of people have valid reasons to go to plan B and don't have to explain it to the whole world.

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Of course there are legit reasons, and not for a moment do I doubt your intentions. I think maybe you saw my post as directed towards you or at anyone in particular, but that's not the case; I was discussing it as a topic in general. And as aiklarkithe pointed out, there are things in our society that we perhaps conveniently overlook, and since they are directly related to this issue, they came up. And I think we need to bring up our society's problems instead of just throwing them under the rug. That's all. Sorry for any misunderstandings. :)