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(Prescriptions may be sent to your local pharmacy by request during your consultation. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee local pickup availability.)
Your privacy is our priority. Just like a brick and mortar doctor's office, Lemonaid Health offers you discreet appointments with medical professionals. We simplify the experience by delivering affordable online medical care from the comfort of your home.
We provide a virtual consultation with a licensed medical professional to determine if treatment is appropriate and, if appropriate, can provide prescription medicine to help you prevent pregnancy if you had unprotected sex.
Treatment is best when taken as soon as possible after having unprotected sex.
Emergency contraception (EC) like ulipristal acetate (ella®) can help prevent unintended pregnancy if taken within 5 days or 120 hours of having unprotected sex.
If any of the following apply, please don’t use our service and instead see a doctor in person. We only prescribe treatment when we’re confident it’s safe and appropriate to give you prescription medicine. Please don’t use our service if any of the following apply, and instead visit a doctor in person:
- You're under 18 or you're 56 or older
- You're currently pregnant or possibly pregnant
- You're breastfeeding
- You had unprotected sex more than 5 days ago (more than 120 hours ago) - medicine must be taken within 5 days of unprotected sex
- You're taking seizure medicines or mood stabilizers like barbiturates, lamotrigine (Lamictal), oxcarbazepine (Trileptal), phenytoin (Dilantin), topiramate (Topamax), carbamazepine (Tegretol), HIV medicines, St. Johns Wort
If you had unprotected sex, we can prescribe ulipristal acetate (ella®) if safe and appropriate. Ulipristal acetate (ella®) can be taken up to 5 days (120 hours) of having unprotected sex.
Read each of the questions carefully and answer each one truthfully. The questions have been carefully designed by our doctors to ensure we get the most complete information in a thoughtful and simple way.
Based on your medical history, we can determine which prescription medicine is appropriate or if perhaps you should seek a doctor in person.
You were assigned a birth sex of female and are aged 18 to 55 years old.
We can prescribe medicines that can decrease your chance of becoming pregnant after having unprotected sex. These medicines do NOT abort or stop an existing pregnancy.
There's a risk that the medicine we prescribed won't prevent pregnancy. Emergency contraception decreases the risk of unintended pregnancy but is not 100%. You’ve always got the option of not taking emergency contraception. By not taking any treatment you do take the chance that you could become pregnant from having unprotected sex.
The over-the-counter levonorgestrel (Plan B) is available as an alternative to the prescription only ulipristal acetate (ella®). An IUD is also a very effective form of emergency contraception when placed within 5 to 7 days of unprotected sex but requires a visit with a doctor to insert and can be very expensive without insurance.
We'll only prescribe prescription medicine if we're confident it's safe and appropriate to do so. However, it's possible that should we make a wrong diagnosis, we will either a) give you prescription medicine(s) you don't need, or b) decline to treat you when in fact you could've been treated.
We only use prescription medicine recommended by widely-recognized clinical guidelines. There are alternatives to the treatments we prescribe. It's your right to request a prescription for these alternatives from other -providers or get over-the-counter medicines that can be used instead.
You always have the option to decline the prescription and not take emergency contraception. By not taking any treatment you do have a risk of becoming pregnant from having unprotected sex.
RISKS OF TAKING PRESCRIPTION MEDICINE The prescription medicine we use ulipristal acetate (ella®) is generally safe, but rarely can cause serious side effects including increased risk of severe allergic reaction, disability, and death.
Before taking any medicine, always read the package insert that comes with your medicine for a full list of side effects and warnings.
Do not take this medicine if you are already pregnant or think you are already pregnant.
Emergency contraception decreases the risk of unintended pregnancy but is not 100% effective.
Read the information below to understand how we can help and the risks involved.
If having unprotected sex was not consensual, (i.e. you were the victim of a rape or sexual assault), please see a doctor in person to report and get treatment instead of using our service.
If you think you are at risk for sexually transmitted diseases (STD) like chlamydia or gonorrhea, please look at our STD services.
If you'd like to start birth control medicine, please look at our birth control service.
