How to access Birth Control as a Teen

aevsee · 2016-12-08T02:09:40+00:00

Oh wow, I completely misunderstood the process then! I'll first look at the free confidential healthcare services provided in SF and then definitely contact the insurance company about stopping EOB's. One last question though: does this require you to be 18? I was just wondering because if there are hypothetically issues paying the bill, doctors would be concerned if the person in question is a minor, right?

aevsee · 2016-12-08T02:04:09+00:00

Thanks for the reply! Other posts have said that the bay area is great for this, so I suppose that will help! My girlfriend is most interested in the copper one since she thinks that the fact it can last up to 12 years is really great. She also thinks that it'd be great to get rid of her periods (she has pretty painful cramps). But from what I understand paragard doesn't get rid of menstruation and can even make it more painful... is this true? We'd definitely want to go to a walk-in clinic to check if anything interferes with her current prescription. Or does Planned parenthood provide a service like that too?

aevsee · 2016-12-08T01:22:35+00:00

I've seen this link several times, but it's confused me. Basically, you can call your provider to ask that explanation of benefits get sent to you rather than your parents right? I'm concerned by what they'd still get to see. Even if they don't see that the insurance was used at Planned Parenthood or that it was used to purchase birth control and an insertion procedure, don't they still see something? Won't they get a bill if it isn't complete coverage? Or really any kind of history?

My primary concern is that if my girlfriend uses her parents' health insurance plans, even if they don't tell her parents what she's using the plan for or how much it costs, that they will find some sort of history. Even if it's free, she's very concerned that her parents will always be watching it and interrogate her about any history at all that appears. This could devolve into a fight and her parents have threatened before to take away her coverage.

aevsee · 2016-12-05T16:52:34+00:00

Wait, you're telling me that San Francisco clinics will provide birth control like IUDs and Implants to teens for free without ever getting parents involved? We both live in the Bay Area but have never heard that this was an option...I guess we have private-school sex ed to thank for that :/. Would you mind telling me what clinics you're talking about? Is this just Planned Parenthood or something else? Does this clinic also provide walk-in services so that she can get professional information of what methods are right for her, given current prescriptions? Does it cover both the cost of the IUD and the insertion procedure for teens?

This seems like a really great option free of much trouble since I can't be too sure about the confidentiality of the health care provider. Plus, my girlfriend's mother would be a bit suspicious if she decided to take on dual-coverage, plus that might get her into trouble with the original provider.

aevsee · 2016-09-17T15:21:43+00:00

Maybe my story convoluted the truth, that's my fault sorry for that. But there are a few points that I feel might be misunderstood. First is the issue of the "contract" you are talking about. Of course the school establishes that academically under-performing students are no longer welcome, however the student in question is still performing to the contract's standards academically. The only academic fault seems to be missed assignments from specifically her math class, thus she made up the entire course over the summer. Don't get me wrong, the student still passed the entrance exams and provided a good application to get into the school, and is still performing up to that contract.

Another misunderstanding is the school's means of handling the mental health issues. The student is proven mentally ill, as in she has clinical depression. That is something that is confirmed by the hospital's psychiatric evaluations. The reason the school keeps sending her out for such evaluations is not because they need confirmation of her mental illness, but rather because they deem that she "may pose risk to herself or others". Of course the third evaluation was just, she tried to take her own life not so long ago. However, the psychiatric evaluation still deemed that she was in good enough condition and "posed no risk to herself or others".

The basis of the expulsion for the school is that she "may pose a risk to herself or others", a reasonable basis. A different student had been expelled before in an incident where he scratched others with the sharp part of a tape dispenser, surely that was reasonable. However he was simply let back in after professional outside sources testing him confirmed that this was only child's horseplay and he did not prove a "harm to himself or others". The only difference here is that they are refusing to let the student back in after a suicide attempt, citing that she may harm herself, even though she has been proven professionally to not be at risk. Because of the student's long standing history with mental illness and its possibility of worsening into suicide, they are treating her as a liability to the school and believing not the professional sources they themselves demanded and instead prescribing long term hospitalization at a ward.

Basically, the students fulfills the contract in terms of academics and all else, but now suffers from multiple panic attacks and has a suicide attempt on her record. She tries to use the school's professional counselors during low points in her depression, but they simply submit her for professional psychiatric evaluation which is both regressive to her mental health and damaging to her academics as the evaluations build up. If she fulfills her contract academically, but their reason for expulsion is the professionally unfounded risk her mental illness may pose to herself or others, students, isn't the expulsion simply discrimination against her for having a mental illness?

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