has anyone ever taken depo-provera?

Question

Just wondering how long it took to get your period back after you stopped taking it.

Answer 1

It took me 9 months to get my period back!

Answer 2

Based on medical advice, it takes upwards of 6-8 months for Depo Provera to leave your body. I personally believe it takes more than a year for some people. If you consider this, you should plan on it taking this long for your period to come back.

Depo Provera is akin to forcing your body into an early menopause state. My period came back after about 4 months. However there were much more serious side affects that I experience while taking the Depo and some that didn't show up until after I stopped receiving the shots:

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!

Answer 3

It has been 8 months since the depo was supposed to wear off. I got on birth control after it was supposedly inactive and I have not had a period yet. My doctor says at max, a year and a half if your body is really susceptible. if not, you can get it back the month after you quit taking the shot, so ....4 months after receiving the shot.

Answer 4

It took me a cupple mos to get a normal period. some woman bleed all the time and others not at all. It also took me a year to get preg with each of my 3 kids after being on depo. I regret ever being on depo. I think that shot messes a woman up. Its not normal to bleed all the time or not at all. Maybe try the pill next time. Good luck

Answer 5

My sister was on depo. The doctor told her it could take up to a year, but she got her period in a matter of a couple months.

Answer 6

I took the depo shot for three years and once i stopped taking it i had my period back the very next month and got pregnant a year later.

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Answer 7

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Answer 8

Unlike the many people who use it and period stops. Mine didn't I bled for 3 months straight. My doctor had to stop my injections. I had the IUD put in and it was the most wonderful birth control ever.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

I think for me it was only a couple months.