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  • 21-10-2008 12:56PM
    #1
    somethingwitty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 173 ✭✭


    Hi Im living in France at the moment and I need to get the morning after pill. I have my European Health Insurance Card but I cant find any info about it on websites.
    Will I be able to see the doctor here for completly free here? What is the story, does anybody know?
    Do they even give the morning after pill here because everywhere closes on a Sunday and it reminds me of Ireland 15 years ago!!...:o


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  • #2
    shellyboo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,883 ✭✭✭shellyboo


    Think it's pretty much only Ireland you need to go beg your GP for the MAP...

    Wikipedia says in France the Morning After Pill is called NorLevo, and I found this article online:

    "Norlevo has been available in French pharmacies since last June. It can be obtained without medical prescription, but is not refunded by the Social Security. One treatment costs between £5.5 and £6.5."

    Here's another one: "On June 1st, 1999, HRA Pharma's NorLevo was granted over the counter status in France. This is the first dedicated emergency contraceptive product to receive such status in a major market."

    http://ec.princeton.edu/news/newsnorlevo.html


  • #3
    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    AFIK you can get it over the counter in France.


  • #4
    somethingwitty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 173 ✭✭somethingwitty


    Ah thank you so much, whenever I type anything into Google here it all comes up in French, even when I type in English! So tis a bit hard to get any info! My French isnt that good!! Yet!!God its crazy how you can get it over the counter here...


  • #5
    shellyboo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,883 ✭✭✭shellyboo


    Um, you can get it over the counter pretty much everywhere in the civilised world. I come from Donegal and if I still lived there I could totter over the border and get it in any pharmacy if I wanted it. It's beyond ridiculous that we have to go to a GP to get it.


  • #6
    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    Not really.

    They're not a sexually repressed backwater where institutions of government and church were intertwined for most of the 20th C.

    They actually educate their children on sex.


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  • #7
    galwaybabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭galwaybabe


    somethingwitty wrote: »
    Ah thank you so much, whenever I type anything into Google here it all comes up in French, even when I type in English! So tis a bit hard to get any info! My French isnt that good!! Yet!!God its crazy how you can get it over the counter here...
    you are probably on google.fr
    use this link to get google.ie


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