Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 14 Location: Fresno, CA
Depo Shot Posted: 06-07-06 15:40pm
Im getting ready to go back on the depo
shot... I'm scared because i've heard
that women will become sterile after using
the depo shot... I've been on it before
but quit because of the rapid weight
gain... But now that i'm sexually active
again I want it... Will I become
sterile... Im only 18 and I want children
in the future... Some facts/info and
answers would realy make me feel better
thanks!!! :d
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matthieusmom
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 06 Feb 2006 Posts: 244 Location: mississippi
Posted: 06-08-06 10:20am
I would totaly not advise you to get on it
again I really regret ever having the
shot. I've been off of it since nov.
I've only have had one period and me and
my boyfriend have been trying for baby
number two since then, I got pregnant in
feburary but ended up haveing an ectopic
pregnancy that ended in a miscarrige, the
doctors said I could have had some of the
shot left in my system. So my advise for
you would be not to get back on it, it's
really bad for you body, the whole two
years I was on it, I had no period what so
ever. So if I have to I will get on my
knees and beg you .P.L.E.A.S.E. D.O.N.T.
Get back on it
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Moo
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 1048 Location: London
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Posted: 06-08-06 10:43am
It can take up to a year after the last
injection for your fertility levels to
return and for your periods to get back to
how they were pre-depo but it wont make
you permanently sterile.
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Nikkkki
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 28 Location: Florida
Posted: 06-09-06 01:00am
Yep - it can take up to a year after
getting off of any birth control - depo or
just the pill to get pregnant again.
I'm surprised your doctor didn't tell you
about that after you tried to get pregnant
so soon after coming off of the depo
shot.
Sometimes it takes people longer to get
pregnant. Becoming sterile off of the
depo shot is a myth. With any birth
control it can take you a while to get
pregnant.
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matthieusmom
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 06 Feb 2006 Posts: 244 Location: mississippi
Posted: 06-09-06 08:15am
I wouldn't say so much of taking a year to
get pregnant after coming off of the pill.
My first month off of the pill I got
pregnant. If it's such a myth then why do
the doctors make you sign a peice of paper
saying that you wont sue them if anything
like that happens?
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Nikkkki
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 28 Location: Florida
Posted: 06-09-06 10:47am
Well you are definately one of the few
that that's happened to. The norm is
that you can't get pregnant for a while
off of the pill or shot. Obviously it's
possible, but for the majority of women
that doesn't happen. I mean, people can
get pregnant while on the pill itself, so
it's certainly possible for people to get
pregnant after stopping.
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matthieusmom
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 06 Feb 2006 Posts: 244 Location: mississippi
Posted: 06-09-06 11:10am
Yeah I guess I was luck enough to get
pregnant I just wish I was lucky enough
that I could have kept it. But it ended
up being ectopic. But we are still trying
soo fingers crossed. Well I have read and
talked to someone that has gotten pregnant
on the shot. The whole two years I was on
it I never had a period.
