Comments on: Women of child-bearing age beware!!

By: Bec

Bec — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:32:15 +0000

i have been off depo for 5 yrs and still can not concieve. i only get a period every 5 months and only for 2 days i have a 7 year old and want another one. I did not know it could make you unable to have kids after going off it please help!!!!

By: KM

KM — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:58:58 +0000

I came here seeking information about the side effects of antib. while using depo provera–not much help, but I can say that I have a beautiful 3 yr old daughter concieved while religiously using the patch–Ortho evra. I, too was given an antibiotic for an ear infection. I kept experiencing abdominal pain and extreme fatigue–had an ultrasound and found out I was almost 19 wks! So, if anyone has any info on s/o they know getting pregnant w/ DP..please share…thanks

By: Bianca Davila

Bianca Davila — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:19:20 +0000

I’m only 19 years old. I have been having sex since the age of 14 years old. Yes I know it’s very sad but at the age of 16years old I was pregnant but unfortunately I had a miscarriage . But I what made the miscarriage worse was the fetus died inside of me. I had to get it surgically taken out. The day i had gotten it taken out I was put on the depo provera. I was one that form of birth control for 1 year and a half and I stopped getting my period 3 months into taking the birth control. since I gottten off the depo i have eeen on the pill and the nuva ring but now that I’m engaged and I want a child so bad it seems almost impossible to concieve a child. I get so discouraged and my fiance also he thinks I am unable to become pregnant.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 08 May 2007 15:42:02 +0000

Are they any way i can get pregnant on depo-provera, I’m allergic to latex and I have One kid already and I sure dont need another one. I’ve been on it for 20 months now! HELP!!

By: Nichole

Nichole — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:55:05 +0000

I have been on the shot for 5 and a half years…3 and a half years over the recommended amount of time. The first 4 years went by fine with no problems other than having no period (but who can’t get used to that!) the last year or so is a different story. I’ve been depressed, moody and even my mother has asked me if I might be bipolar. My sex drive and energy levels are pretty much ZERO. My doctor NEVER suggested that I quit the shot after 2 years, only saying she would take me off it if I gained too much weight. I mentioned to her last year that I thought I had seasonal depression, too bad she didn’t consider my birth control to be a factor. (Then again, I had no reason to suspect it has something to do with a shot I have been getting for years) I think that part of the problem is that I did not have a separate doctor and gynecologist, as I’ve heard from many people that gynos seem to be more informed and in touch with their patients on things like birth control. I was due for my shot 10 days ago and needless to say, I won’t be getting depo again. I have an appointment with my new doc tomorrow, where ill be seeing about getting a bone scan, since depo is linked with the loss of bone mass (omg the stories I’ve read lately!) and an appointment with a new gyno next month to discuss what options are best for me. I figure that if I’m lucky, I won’t get a call in a couple weeks on my 25th birthday to inform me I have osteoporosis. I wish this poison would leave my body!

By: Lovella

Lovella — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:04:15 +0000

I was on the depo shot for about 2 years. Starting in 2000 and ending in 2002.I am 26 years old and very healthy.I have a child now 8 years old. I have yet been able to concieve a child since my last dose. It’s upsetting to me because I would like to have another someday. I need to know if there are such side effects from the depo shot preventing me to concieve?

By: Alexandra Lynch

Alexandra Lynch — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:11:53 +0000

Rack up another one. Was married and using oral contraceptives for birth control when I had my kidney infection. I wasn’t in any state to remember to inform anyone about my birth control, no one bothered to ask me in my more lucid intervals, and no one asked my husband. I wasn’t even given the information as a potential drug interaction on my discharge sheet. What to do if I had a delayed allergic reaction to the IV antibiotics I’d had, yes. But not that. And I was MARRIED. One might assume married people, you know, have sex.

We terminated, because we couldn’t afford another baby then, and I was furious at the hospital and their systems that let it happen. Do I NOW look up every. single. drug, shell out for a Nurse’s Drug Reference yearly? Yes. But I would have preferred not to have to go through that entire process to learn that I can’t trust the people I’m trusting to keep my kidneys functioning to tell me about a (fairly common, I should imagine) drug reaction that severely changes one’s life.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:38:05 +0000

I was on the shot a couple of years ago and then went off it for about a year. I am back on it and have been for about nine months. I have just recently been diagnosed with mild depression. I have no energy and no sex drive. I have felt this way for a few years. I couldnt say that it is due to the depo. when the depression started i wanst on depo. I am sick of having no energy and will do anything to feel normal again but getting pregnant is absolutely not something that would help me right now. I am thinking of taking Saint John’s Wort but am unsure if it is safe to take while on depo.

By: Pippa

Pippa — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:13:40 +0000

I’ve been on the shot for 6 months now, and it has worked out really well for me. I lost the 20lbs I gained on the pill, because my appetite became normal again, had no periods, and no mood changes or general PMS stuff.. I wanted to say that the people with horror stories are the ones who tend to write (I came across the site looking for info on anti-biotic interferance). The side-effects mentioned here are all mentioned on the leaflet that comes with the shot people! But I am sorry to hear that the health care practitioners you have not informed you of the possibilities.. Then again, there is personal responsibility with ANY medication to READ the info and ASK questions, like “when will my full fertility return?”.. And the horror stories which occur very rarely ( I say this as an experienced nurse who is currently at medschool) should not put off other people from what is an excellent form of contraception in the vast majority of cases. Have a nice day!

By: Ash

Ash — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:12:48 +0000

I got on Depo March 20th and was due to go back June 5th for my next one. I decided not to because I wanted to get pregnant. I’m 21 years old and the SHOT has been hell since I been on it and til now that I stopped it. All I do is BLEED. During sex is a pain my boyfriend didn’t know what the hell was going on with me. I’m suffering with an UTI thats painful and itchy and Bloating My boyfriend isn’t talking to me now. Because I do is fight and argue with him. I wish I never gotten on this stuff sometimes I feel like I’m pregnant and I want to be so bad but all it ever be is slight cramping and bleeding for days. I don’y know whether its my period or what. So gross stay away from the DEPO SHOT!~!