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So I went and picked up the birth control. My doctor put me on Yasmin. I was rather shocked when the pharmacist told me the price. It was $35 total for both the provera to start a period and the Yasmin to continue them. When you have serious PCOS you need this combination if you want to cook up a nice healthy period….or a period at all for that matter.

I ripped apart my prescriptions quickly to look at the cost breakdown. I think I was shocked because I’ve taken every medication known to the uteruses and the like over the last 3 years and this was alarming.

My prescription for Provera was $10 and I saved a big whopping $1.10 via my insurance. Now, my insurance is good and I know they gave me a generic for the drug and I’m ok with that. I don’t need any fancy name on my pills. I just need them to work.

Then I looked at the Yasmin bag. It says “$25.00 was my cost.” And this for 28 pills. One months supply!! And to add insult to injury it further says, “Your insurance saved you $32.99” on the bag.

Ok so you mean to tell me that Yasmin’s normal cost is $57.99?? For 28 pills? Are they serious? That would be $695.88 per year to prevent pregnancy for a woman with no health insurance. With my insurance it will cost me $300 a year to prevent pregnancy when I can’t get pregnant and just need a drug that makes me have a period?

Fucking insane. Sorry but that’s so crazy to me because if I took Clomid every single month it would not add up to $300 a year. Also, I can opt to take Megace every day for the rest of my life. That drug is a total cost to me of $10 a month or $120 a year. I chose to forgo Megace because it makes you hungry, or so they say. I never felt that side affect.

On Megace there is no nasty bleeding, no need for tampons, no periods, just a daily cleansing of all body parts for any cells that should not be within the body. In other words it cleanses your uterus so it stays clean and healthy.

So Yasmin as an ongoing option for me means $25 per month plus the $5 for tampons. So $30 times 12 is $360 a year out of pocket expense or no periods, no tampons, no cramps and $120 a year. I’m going to have to consider this one. For the time being…but get this…

The day after I went to Dr. OB/GYN and he make me give blood for a pregnancy test (one that I will have to pay $11 out of pocket expense for even though I said I wasn’t pregnant and didn’t want the test and he convinced me that perhaps I was…) …well the very day after that…I got my period. However, now I have to wait for it to stop…take the Provera…and wait for it to come back….and then begin taking a birth control pill.

The pack of pills looks like it’s marketed to a teenager. It’s purple and has a big hefty book of directions…all about what to do if you miss a pill and think you might get pregnant (hahahahaha….please god let that happen to me) and it comes complete with a set of stickers one is meant to place on the pack..how I haven’t quite figured out yet.

The last time I took the pill was 1991 and it came in a circular pack with Day 1, 2, 3, 4 etc on it. There were pink and green pills in it and not all white. And it didn’t come in a fancy fuzzy purple pouch packet.

Oh and it was $11 a month and I had no insurance!!!

So far, Yasmin, I am not impressed by your fancy packaging alone. For the simple fact of not having to go back to the doctor for the next three months I will be ingesting this crap and finding out. What I truly do not understand is that I have to do this to cleanse my PCOS ridden body of excess estrogen and keep my uterus healthy.

Someone recommended a birth control to me, I believe it was Yaz…which is a form of Yasmin. I think they said it was good. We shall see. I can say that if I feel better hormonally etc. I will pay any price.