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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?

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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