off depo abnormal menstrual cycle

[tazgirl]

I was on the depo shot for about 9yrs.  I have been off it for 9months.  My mentrual cycles have been long.  curently it is going on 3 wks.  how worried should I be?

[xlilangel2528x]

i was a 10 year depo user. i began taking the depo when i was 13 and for years thought it was the greatest thing. i loved not havng periods!! i never had any anxiety or depression luckily but the loss of boss density and being infertile for life made me re-evaluate my situation and quit getting the shot. have now been off of it for about 4 months and all was good so far including the fact i lost 34lbs. but for the last month and a half my boobs have hurt so bad that even to just look at them makes me want to cry (and i have went from a 34B to a full C since i stopped the shot and im sure the depo had something to do with that.) about two and a half weeks ago i started what i thought was my period, it was extremely heavy and painful but i figured it had been so long i just forgot what it was like. it lasted about a week and a half and quit for two days. i then began bleeding moderately again. this afternoon i had the worst cramping and vaginal pain of my life almost like someone was stabbing me with a knife, a few hours later when i stood up i began bleeding heavily all over myself (literially running down my legs and into my boots). i am a paramedic and yet i was shocked at the excessive amount of free flowing blood EVERYWHERE!! the bleeding has continued at an insanely heavy rate still 4 hours later. lucky for me i am at work and close by an ambulance in case something really bad happens. my blood pressure has seemed to maintain so far but who knows. i am scared to go to a doctor in fear they will try to coax me into adding another hormone or birth control POISON into my system. I am glad i found this post so i know that i am not alone!! i wouldnt recommend this TORTURE to my worst enemy!!

[lissa666]

was on the shot for 5 years last shot aug 27 2009, got a crampy but normal 5 day period  

[JBarbie21]

Hey everyone! My mother put me on the depo at the age of 14 15 when she found out that i was having sex with my boyfriend whom i am still with presently. I have stopped the depo at the age of 20 because I had gained about 60 pounds, I am always feeling depressed, I have mood swings, I have cysts on my ovaries now and my boyfriend and I whom I've been dating for 9 years wants a child. I am 21 now going on 22 in sept and its frustrating knowing that we were the only ones in school that was going for the longest and ppl who started dating after us already have kids. Sometimes I snap and blame my mother for putting me on this but I just started seeing my period about 9 months off the depo and it sames normal but am not sure cause my bf and I are trying. I also came off the depo because of the never ending  lower back pains. I had my father change my bed mattress 3 times thinkin it was the mattress until I looked up on the internet and found out that the depo actually takes calcium out of your bones so I believe that's why my back is always hurting and my knees are starting to hurt as well does anyone have any answers to my story. Please help I am desperate! I want to get pg and have beautiful healthy baby.

[Haley_of_Ark]

Hey
I really NEED HELP please.
Okay.. I got the Depot ONE time... Never went back to get it..
Ive been bleeding ever since.
.NOT stopped for more than two days at a time,
Doc cant tell me anything?
I have blead for eleven months straight, and its killimg me.
I gained 20 pounds and is and has been depressed. ANYONE else had this effect too?? Haley of ARK

[louiegirl24]

help! i was suppose to get my depo shot at the end of august, but decided not to due to weight gain and such, so I got my period within a couple weeks after missing the shot due date, now it is march and my periods have  been lasting 3-4 weeks! I think the longest i have went was 6 days without a peiod, the rest has been awful,and just this last month, i have been bleeding heavily for 2 1/2 weeks, not good. I am definately feeling the effects- light headed, weak, tired easy and dizzy. any suggestions to when I will go back to normal? or if I should/shouldnt be worried?

[kinne123]

maybe you should see you doctor as mentioned before heavy bleeding can cause anemia so that could explain your dizziness.

[fatstar]

I was on depo for just over 9 years. I got my last shot at the end of December last year and my period started the beginning of this month. So it took about 11 months after my last shot or 8 months after the depo injection ran out for AF to show up. A few things I did (although I'm not sure it really sped anything up) is 1) I upped my cardio to 3 times a week, 2) I drank a crapload of green, white and red teas which help detoxify your system(ladies TTC, drinking a lot of green and white teas can inhibit the absorption of folic acid, so you may want to stick to red tea if you are taking prenatal vitamins) and 3)  I did a 4 day juice/water fast to cleanse out my system. Since it's started, my period has started and stopped completely 3 times in the last 3 weeks. So now that I have my AF, I'll have to see how long it takes to get regular :) I'll repost when it happens, but I just wanted to let those still waiting out there not to stress. It'll happen.