I started taking the shot 4 yrs ago after my first child and I have been off the depo shot for about 3-4 months now and I am having all the signs of pregnancy but the test i took a week ago said neg. I still have not started. I have had a least 5 charlie horses in the last couple days that wake me up at night. Last night I cramped so bad I was bent over and could not move.The cramps were not just in my stomach my back too. I never had bad cramps like that before. Can anyone help me? Has anyone else felt this after coming off the shot?
2006-11-17 05:00:28 · 5 answers · asked by mominla 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Other - Pregnancy & Parenting
The shot is awesome to keep you from getting pregnant but, when you stop taking it, it takes USUALLY about a year to make you normal again. If I were you I would go get a blood test done to make for sure you are or are not!
2006-11-17 05:05:57 · answer #1 · answered by mommy of 2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes! That is definitely a side affect of the shot. I forgot that it happened to me years ago, until I just read your post. Sore breasts were another affect. These things happen to pregnant women all the time (largely because of the change in their hormones).
I would seriously suggesting rethinking the Depo Provera.
They say Depo Provera is akin to forcing your body into an early menopause state. If you ever heard what women say about their personalities while "going through the change". Depo can produce the same thing!
I've been off the Depo Provera since 2000 and my hair and my eyebrows still haven't grown all the way back. I lost about a 1/4 inch along most of my front hair line. The rest of my hair came back and is thick and strong, but the hairline is not the same compared to what it was. In addition to the severe hair loss, I gained over 40 pounds, 20 while taking Depo and 20 after coming off. I never had a migraine before Depo and during use and for the first year after being off it, I had severe migraines at least once a week. My skin itched like I wanted to rip it off and I was hot all the time. I would get extreme vertigo with no warning. Just try staggering at work or while in the pharmacy and not look like you had a drinking problem! My bones also ached a lot. Depo has been proven to cause osteoporosis. Over a year after coming off the Depo Provera, I developed two serious blood clots one after the other. The cause was never completely determined because I had not been on birth control of any kind for over a year and my blood tests were normal. I finally had a rib removed and the clots stopped, but I will contend to this day the Depo had at least a little something to do with it. About the same time as the blood clots, I started having severe cramping and a year into it, my doctor found pretty severe endometriosis. With the resulting depression and the lack of sex from Depo you may not have to worry about getting pregnant because you won't want to have sex anyway. I know some people do just fine with this birth control, but it's not worth the chance. It takes upwards of 6 to 8 months for the effects to wear off and sometimes longer. My hair has never grown completely back along the hairline and I am having a hair transplant at a tune of $5,000.00 to fix it. I had to have my eyebrows tattooed because they will not fill back in! I am only 35! I can't wait until Depo is researched more deeply and to someday find out what else this drug did to screw up my system.
I got the (copper) IUD (since I can't use hormones anymore due to future clotting risks). My insurance paid for it. You still get your period, but it's worth it.
Our bodies are made to have periods unless we are pregnant. If you force your body into an unnatural state, it WILL fight back!
Please watch out for other side affects and talk to your Doctor immediately if anything scares you!
Good luck.
2006-11-21 00:19:48 · answer #2 · answered by Brenda M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes when i was on the shot it was for 6 yrs and when i got off it took almost a year before i got pregnant but of course everyone is different if the cramps do not stop in another 24 hours then go to your doctor or the emerency room because you could be pregnant and that could be a miscarriage so please take care
2006-11-17 05:20:15 · answer #3 · answered by jenni 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I NEVER had that problem coming off the depo shot but i never was on it for that long. BUT.... i had MAJOR cramping in my tummy when i was younger and it was a cist (can't spell) on my falopian tube and it burst. So... what i'm saying is, that maybe you need to go to the doctor (i ended up in the emergency room)
Hope you're ok.
2006-11-17 05:08:03 · answer #4 · answered by brooklyn_1968 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2017-02-19 17:07:35 · answer #5 · answered by Alfredo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋