Emergency Contraception (cont.)

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Medical Author:

Omnia M Samra, MD

Medical Editor:

Bryan D Cowan, MD

Medical Editor:

Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD

Medical Editor:

Lee P Shulman, MD

Exams and Tests

Your health care provider may wish to meet with you or may be willing to provide a prescription without an office visit. He or she may ask simple questions such as the following:

Is it possible that you are already pregnant?
Do you use any sort of contraception regularly?
Is it possible that you have been exposed to sexually transmitted infections?

It is important to be honest with your health care provider.

For an office visit, a physical examination, other than simple vital signs (temperature, pulse, blood pressure), may or may not be performed. Consider testing for sexually transmitted infections if you may have been exposed.

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