Is the pill effective for bringing back your period after being on depo?

Question

I've been off of depo-provera for about 6months now and still no period. I heard that the pill would help with bringing it back, any comments?

Answer 1

I was on depo when I was 16. It made me have my period the whole time I was on it. ( 3 Mo) My Dr put me on the pill and within a few months I was regular again. I then got off the pill and let my body regulate itself. I would definately try the pill to bring back af.

Answer 2

Please just take a break for hormones alltogether for a while and wait for your period to come back on it's own. Your body needs a break. Depo takes 6-8 months and sometimes longer to clear your system. I personally believe the affects can linger for years.

Depo Provera is akin to forcing your body into an early menopause state.

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!

Your body needs to be able to adjust on it's own. I would hate to see you have dire consequences for trying to make your body do something it is not ready for. Remember, people do die from the changes that hormones cause their bodies.

Answer 3

Hmm. lets see. I had depo in January and only one shot. It got rid of my lining so bad that starting birth control on the 3 month mark makes it to where I don't have a period still. There wasn't time for the uterine wall to build back up to allow for bleeding and b.c. pills kept me from bleeding due to the hormones...so no, I don't agree with that. And I've been on b.c. for almost 8 months.

Answer 4

Depends on your body and how long you were on it. it can take up to 18 mnths to be regular again. i just got off 1 3-mnth shot and awaiting my period to come back also. my problem is that I might have PCOS.