7 Places to Get Online Birth Control If You Have PCOS

Unlike many companies, wisp does not charge a consultation fee or an annual membership fee. Instead, you just pay for your birth control subscription—which is only $15 out of pocket for a 90-day supply—every three months. 

To get started, complete a medical form, choose between a one-time purchase or a recurring subscription, and then select the birth control pill you’re interested in. To make this easier, wisp offers an informative page for each of the medications it offers, as well as a symptoms quiz you can take—and if you still can’t decide, you can opt for a telehealth appointment with a doctor who can decide which prescription might be best for you. Once you know what you want, you’ll make your request and a doctor will follow up with you by phone or online chat and then write you the prescription that makes the most sense for your preferences and PCOS symptoms.

Shipping is free, usually taking three to five business days, and orders are processed every day of the week, not just during the workweek. You also have the option to have your prescription filled at a local pharmacy if you’d prefer. Wisp does not take insurance for consultations or any prescriptions you have mailed to you, but with pharmacy pickup, you can use your insurance to cover your copay at the pharmacy (in addition to wisp’s $15 fee) or get special discount when paying out of pocket by using a wispcount card (that’s “wisp” + “discount”). The biggest downsides of wisp’s service are that it only serves people 18 and up, and that it only offers birth control pills (not patches or other forms of birth control). 

Still, wisp is a great option for those who don’t have or don’t want to use insurance to cover their birth control, and for those who know what specific birth control option they want to use. If you plan to be on birth control for quite a while, shopping with wisp can help you save.  

Even if relieving the symptoms of PCOS is your primary reasons for seeking a birth control prescription, it may be worth finding an online pharmacy that can meet your other prescription needs as well. With Hers, you can count on getting hormonal birth control to help treat your PCOS symptoms for as low as $12 per month. The company also offers other prescriptions you may be seeking—such as for skin care, mental health, or sexual health. 

Doctors at Hers are trained to support people with a variety of conditions, and its website and blog offers information on PCOS, the symptoms it can cause, and how birth control can help. Hers offers a wide range of options for hormonal birth control pills (but no patches, rings, or shots), including combination pills with low-androgen formulations and the progesterone-only mini-pill, which are known as the best options for people with PCOS. 

To order birth control with Hers, you’ll download the app, fill out some basic information about yourself, and indicate that you’re interested in birth control. From there, you’ll be asked your preferences and offered options that meet your needs. You’ll receive a message from a doctor within 24 hours, confirming your prescription or asking for more information. Once the doctor approves your prescription, it will be shipped to you for free in two to five business days. You can also request Hers to send your prescription to a local pharmacy, if you prefer, though the transfer process may take up to three days (or more).

Once you have a prescription, it will renew each month automatically; you’ll be charged the recurring fee and have the option to cancel or switch medication at any time. While you can’t use your flexible spending account (FSA) or health savings account (HSA) card, Hers offers savings compared to other online platforms, since you won’t pay a fee for a consultation and there are no membership costs.

Whether you're a parent of a teen who wants birth control for their PCOS, or you are that teen yourself, your online birth control options are fairly limited. Luckily, Twentyeight Health offers birth control to teens as young as 13 in 20 states, and teens who are 14 to 16 in an additional four, parental consent not required. (If you’re under the legal age to receive birth control in your state, Twentyeight Health recommends that you email its customer support team for guidance on your options.) 

With Twentyeight Health, you’ll start by creating an account and completing an interactive medical questionnaire that includes any brand preferences you may have. After that, you’ll schedule a call or chat with a doctor who will provide you the birth control prescription you’re seeking, if appropriate. Twentyeight Health’s $26 annual consultation fee covers this initial consultation and gives you access to messaging with a doctor for the whole year. Shipping is free and discreet, and you can expect to have birth control in your hands within three to five business days. 

Twentyeight Health accepts most major insurance plans (including Medicaid in Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania). While the $26 annual fee is not covered by insurance, the cost of your prescription will be $0 with most plans. For self-paying clients, the company notes that over 60 of its brands start at $18 per pack.

Additionally, the following discounts are available on birth control pills:

• Three-month supply: Save $3 per delivery.
• Six-month supply: Save $10 per delivery.
• 12-month supply: Save $25 per delivery.

If you have any questions, which is natural if you’re a teen who’s newer to using birth control, Twentyeight Health’s Sex + Health Guide contains information about reproductive health care (including info about PCOS)—and you can always reach out to the team by email, phone, or chat for a response within 48 hours. That makes this platform a great option for teenagers (or adults) who may be shopping for online birth control for the first time.

If you plan to use insurance to purchase your or your teen’s birth control, then look no further—The Pill Club accepts over 100 insurance plans and offers the option to choose from many types of birth control pills or the Annovera ring. 

With The Pill Club, you won’t ever have to pay for shipping and you can count on your birth control prescription arriving discreetly in three to five days. The Pill Club is available in the District of Columbia and every state but Mississippi; the minimum age to use the service is 14 in over half the country, 16 in Kansas, and 18 in 18 additional states—though Nebraskans must be at least 19. 

The Pill Club also gives you the option to include other reproductive health add-ons to each shipment, like generic Plan B, pregnancy tests, and menstrual care products. When you open your package, you’ll also find fun extras like stickers or chocolate—a welcome bonus that can make receiving your package from The Pill Club in the mail all the more exciting. 

To get started, you’ll enter your basic information and fill out a medical health questionnaire on the HIPAA-compliant site. Based on the answers and information you share, The Pill Club’s medical team will recommend a birth control option. You can accept the recommendation immediately, or you can share more information about your needs or request a specific type that has worked well for you in the past. You’ll pay $20 per year for this annual evaluation. 

With insurance, you’ll generally pay $0 for birth control, although some types of birth control require a copay; if this applies to you, The Pill Club will give you a heads up before it’s time to pay. 

If you’re paying out of pocket, there are two affordable options available:

• Three-month supply: $31.98 total (at $10.66 per pack)
• 12-month supply: $83.88 total (at $6.99 per pack)

You’ll have to wait five to seven days for approval before your prescription goes through and your birth control ships, which is a bit longer than with other companies. Still, The Pill Club is a great choice for those who want their birth control covered by insurance—or who want low out-of-pocket prices.

If you’re ready to begin treating some of your PCOS symptoms right away, and you’re over 18, Lemonaid Health can get birth control into your hands as quickly as possible. It sends three-month supplies of birth control pills directly to your home, or you might be able to pick up your prescription for pills, patches, or rings at a local pharmacy the same day. 

When you sign up with Lemonaid Health, you’ll pay a $25 consultation fee and, depending on your state of residence, you’ll either have a video or audio call with a provider who will go over your needs and recommend a birth control option. You won’t need a lot of information before your consultation, but you will need to know your blood pressure. Although this is an extra step compared to some competitors, it’s better to be safe than sorry and get a baseline reading, since hormonal birth control can increase your risk of stroke and other blood pressure-related side effects.

Lemonaid Health’s services—including lab tests, emergency contraception, and primary care video visits—are FSA/HSA eligible. As the company does not accept insurance for its consultations or mail delivery, expect to pay $45 every three months to get pills sent to you. (Patches and rings are not available for shipping.) If you have the prescription sent to your pharmacy for pickup, you can use your insurance—meaning you’ll likely have a $0 copay for your actual prescription; you'll just pay the annual $25 consultation fee.

With standard shipping, you can expect your discreetly packaged birth control to arrive in two to three business days; expedited, next-day shipping is also available if you want your prescription even faster. Because Lemonaid Health automatically ships every three months, you won’t have to worry about remembering to order (or pay for) birth control for your PCOS symptoms.

Pandia Health was founded by doctors to ensure that your family has access to all of the options that make it easier to address PCOS with hormonal birth control. With doctors ready to prescribe 140+ generic and name-brand pills, patches, and rings, finding the right birth control to help control your PCOS symptoms with minimal side effects has never been easier. 

If you don’t already have a birth control prescription and you live in one of 13 eligible states, you'll sign up for an account, answer a health questionnaire, and pay a consultation fee ($25 for mail delivery or $49 for pharmacy pickup). Once that’s done, Pandia Health doctors will review your questionnaire and then write a prescription for a medication that’s likely to cause you the fewest side effects. It’s also very easy to transfer existing prescriptions to Pandia Health, which ships to all 50 states and D.C.

The Terms and Conditions note that you must be 18 to use Pandia Health; however, it also says that those under 18 can request to use the service, and the blog offers a guide for parents of teens who want birth control. The Terms and Conditions don’t explain minimum state age requirements (like Twentyeight Health does), though, so your best bet is to contact the team directly to find out if your teen is eligible for services.

If you have one of the many insurance plans that’s in network with Pandia Health (including Medicaid), you can expect to pay $0 for your medications. Without insurance, prescriptions start at just $15 per month. Shipping is free and discreet, refills are automatic, and you can have your birth control sent monthly, quarterly, biannually, or annually for added convenience.

In addition to a huge variety of birth control options and a low monthly cost, Pandia Health also offers periodic check-ins initiated by the healthcare team to make sure that your birth control is still working for you. You can also reach out via phone, text, chat, or email anytime you have issues or concerns. The HIPAA-compliant Pandia Health website also offers more information about PCOS topics than many other online birth control providers. 

With a wide variety of birth control options to choose from, free check-ins, and lots of care and attention paid to PCOS, Pandia Health is a great choice if you are seeking more comprehensive care. 

If you or your kid is trans, intersex, nonbinary, or otherwise not cisgender, it can be frustrating to search for hormonal birth control. There’s some evidence suggesting that people with PCOS may be more likely to be transgender or gender nonconforming, yet many clinics only focus on “women’s” health and cis women’s feelings of gender dysphoria about “masculinizing” PCOS side effects like facial/body hair and amenorrhea (no periods). If you’re looking for birth control from an organization that knows that trans, intersex, and nonbinary folks may want different things out of PCOS treatment than cis women, Planned Parenthood and its free app, Planned Parenthood Direct (PPDirect), are here for you.

Planned Parenthood has worked hard to offer inclusive, trans-competent care. When you download PPDirect, you’ll find an app that does not make assumptions about your gender or sexuality—but the sign-up process to get birth control for PCOS is still basically the same as many of the other platforms in this roundup. You’ll fill out your basic information, complete a health questionnaire, and indicate what kind of birth control you’re looking for. To make this easier, the site offers extensive information on every method of birth control from fertility awareness methods (FAMs) to tubal ligation. 

Within one business day, you’ll hear back from a Planned Parenthood clinician who will answer any questions you may have and then write a prescription for the method and formulation of birth control that works best for you, as long as there are no risk factors that would make hormonal birth control unsafe for you to take. (In that case, you’ll get a refund.) If you choose to pick your prescription up at your local pharmacy, you’ll pay a $15 to $25 visit fee (depending on your state) and then pay for your birth control at the pharmacy, using your insurance if you’d like. If you choose mail delivery (available for birth control pills only), you’ll just pay $15 to $25 per month out of pocket for your prescription—again, depending on your state.