Scared to death... need a little help
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| Wed, 10-04-2006 - 12:37pm |
This is going to be long but I think the details are important.
I received my second depo provera shot on September 18th. About two weeks before that, my boyfriend and I were having intercourse and I began bleeding. I didn't really know what to think so I called my doctor the next day and said that bleeding before the next shot was normal. So for the next two weeks I just kept bleeding. It didn't stop until the next morning after I received the shot. Everything was going great until about two weeks ago when I started getting really bad headaches. I began to be tired all the time, having to pee 200 times a day, mood swings where I just cry for absolutely no reason, slight constipation, and back pain. I kind of started thinking I could be pregnant. Three days ago, I just randomly started bleeding but it wasn't heavy and it wasn't a darker red like a normal period and it stopped the next day. I took a home pregnancy test yesterday and it came back negative and I took another one that evening. When I took it, I watched it go across the screen and there was a real light positive sign but the negative was darker. So I went into the other room for about 3 or 4 minutes and went back and it said negative again. Is there still a chance that I am pregnant??? Also, if I am pregnant, can me recieving the shot so recently hurt the baby? Somone help!!

Here's some info from someone who had been on Depo for two years, and had friends as well who were on depo.
the mood swings, normal. because you're on a progesterone only hormone which you aren't used to. also like your doctor said the bleeding before the next shot is normal, it happened to me, and as for the constant bleeding for two weeks, I had a friend on depo who bled the entire time she was on it, which resulted in her converting back to BC pills. Headaches too are another side effect. I would have very bad headaches before my next needle was due and a couple weeks after. As for the back pain and peeing a lot, I have no idea.
if you are really concerned please go back to the doctor. unlike the pill you can't just stop taking it halfway through , so if you are pregnant you definately don't want to get your next shot. get the doc to do a blood test to ease your mind and let me know how it works out!
MS. NAHJAE
Of course, the shot is also known to mess up your cycle, and when I was on it my periods were completely unpredictable.. sometimes stopping for 2 months, and other times bleeding for 2 weeks straight. So it could be the shot messing with your system that is causing some of it. I don't know if this helps a whole lot, but good luck either way it goes!!