My Birth Control Was Switched At The Pharmacy

So as the title says my birth control was switched out at the pharmacy. I’ve been taking it for years so I wouldn’t get my period due to them being completely awful and painful, but I got the prescription from an online doctor.

In October, I went to see an ob-gyn and she prescribed me the same medication but under her now. I noticed when I went to go pick it up it had a different name, but didn’t think anything of it. I started taking it on the second week of December when I finished the last of my old prescription and about 2 weeks after taking the medication I noticed period symptoms but nothing ever happened until this past Monday, January 12. I’m at work and I just feel like something is coming out of me so I go to the restroom and there it is, I’m on my period and throughout the day the pain just gets worse.

I had to buy pads and prepare myself, thank god I was on vacation most of the week because I could barely move. I actually had a scheduled follow up with my ob-gyn on Wednesday and I told her what was going on and that I noticed the medicine was not the same. So she took a look and said, “Yeah, that is not what I prescribed you! It’s the same but slightly different in hormone levels as one is low estrogen and one is high. That would explain why you got your period.”

Now I’m wanting to know if this is something I can take legal action against. When I say my period is bad, it’s honestly terrible. It’s something I would never wish for anyone to have and even after going to doctors and hospitals many times before I took the birth control, no one could figure out why it was so bad. It’s been great not having it for 4 years and now I’m here in agonizing pain unable to move due to the wrong medication being given to me.

Location: Texas