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I don't know what to do
F-16
So I had sex for my first time, and we did this and it was good I did bleed a bit, but that's normal. It's a few days after and I'm just randomly seeing brown/pink blood when I whip... Then I started my period, I just finished my period today. And I went to the wash room and there was closer to a darker brown when I whip... Idk what to do, I don't want to tell my parents, and I don't feel comfortable seeing a doctor about this...
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Since you are over 14 years of age a federal law called HIPPA allows you to see a doctor without parental consent or knowledge for anything having to do with your reproductive system. Since what you are writing about falls under that parameter you may see any doctor of your choosing to put your mind at ease.
What this means is you can schedule a visit with your own gynecologist. Visit any of the walk-in clinics in your area or visit a planned parenthood or women's free clinic in your area. These doctors visits are totally confidential. No one including your parents can be told why you're seeing the doctor, what is discussed with the doctor and what the doctor is examining you for.
Since you are now sexually active you may even want to discuss birth control with the doctor. This to is allowed under HIPPA and the doctor will prescribe medication if asked. These visits will be covered under your parents health insurance, but still does not give them any right to see these records without your written permission to the doctor. Even the pharmacist cannot tell your parents of the birth control medication.
All you need to see any doctor, with the exception of the planned parenthood clinics, is a copy of your parents health insurance card. If you are not carrying a copy with you, you should be. It's just a precaution that you have it as an active 16 year old teenager it is just one of those things you should carry in the event of an emergency and you cannot get in touch with a parent.
Congress passed this law for just the reason you are writing to us. So when something like this comes up and you don't want to go to your parents. If it concerns your reproductive system, then you can go see a doctor, be examined, have questions answered and be treated all in total confidentiality. Just because your parents health insurance is paying does not give them any rights to know why you saw the doctor. I could pay the bill and I could not know why you were treated. Unless you give permission in writing to the doctor.
In fact since you were 14 years old mom can no longer be in an exam room with you if you do not want her there. All you need say to the doctor is I wish to invoke my rights under HIPPA and mom will be made to wait in the waiting room. Saying that to the doctor tells the doctor you have a sexual or sexual reproductive question or need to have a female exam performed.
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