trouble with the depo shot

iVillage Member
Registered: 05-29-2007
trouble with the depo shot
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Mon, 06-04-2007 - 4:09pm
I am 25 now and I was previously on the depo shot for about 2 years and then last year in about june I went off of it because I was gettin married in august and we wanted to try to get pregnant on our honeymoon. Well when i stopped the depo i had an extremely heavy flow for 2 months straight. It affected my work I couldnt go anywhere because I was just bleeding through everything in matter of minutes and the doctors said that it might be like that for up to 18 months. I felt like that should have been told to me when I was exploring my options because when I was younger I had the same reaction to some BC pills and I would have done one not so severe. I would only recommend the depo shot to people who dont want to have children within the next few years. It took my body 13 months to finally start ovulating and now im pregnant thank god but I feel I wasnt told all the details. I dont know if anyone else had similar problems with the shot but I definetly did and never plan to take it again.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-19-2003
Mon, 06-04-2007 - 11:53pm

We've had lots of women come here and tell us that they wish that they'd have known all of the details before they started Depo Provera. You're not alone in that regard!

Judie Cl for Birth Control