The Truth About Whether Plan B Works If You’re Over 155 Pounds

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The Truth About Whether Plan B Works If You’re Over 155 Pounds
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. That work identified a negative correlation between BMI and the effectiveness of Plan B, and another pill, Ella. For folks above a BMI of 25, Plan B’s effectiveness appeared to drop off; with Ella, the more dramatic drop off occurred at a BMI of 30. Jacoby notes that the Food and Drug Administration

putting a label on Plan B to explain that its effectiveness decreases with weight but decided against it because the data are “conflicting and too limited.”The literature on weight and contraception hasn’t seen much of an update in the years since, says Alison Edelman, an OB/GYN at Oregon Health & Science University and the author of some of that limited research.

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