Family Planning Plus

If you can talk to your parents, they can buy the medication for you. Otherwise, please call your local Family Planning or Planned Parenthood office right away. If you are under 18, you can receive Plan B at no cost. Plan B can be used up to five days after unprotected sex. Family Planning staff can also talk with you about all of your birth control options and help you choose a method that’s best for you.  Your services will be strictly confidential (meaning that no one will contact your parents unless you want them to). In the meantime, do not have unprotected sex again. Either use condoms or abstain from sexual intercourse.

The chances of the unprotected sex resulting in pregnancy are dependent on a number of different things. Some of these include the number of times one has intercourse (of course, the more times you have unprotected intercourse, the greater the chance of pregnancy) and the timing of the intercourse in relationship to your menstrual cycle. You are less likely to become pregnant if the intercourse occurred just before, during, or just after your menstrual period, and more likely to become pregnant if it occurred mid-cycle. 

If you do end up using Plan B, please keep in mind that one of the most common side effects of Plan B use is menstrual irregularity.  Therefore, your next period could be earlier than usual, later than usual, or spotty (meaning you may bleed for a few days, stop, and then bleed some more).

Regardless of whether or not you use Plan B, if you are a week or more late for your period, take a pregnancy test. If it is negative, repeat the test every two weeks until you have a normal period or a positive test result.