TTC After Depo Shot

[Dipar_Butt3]

Im too scared to ask my docs anything, theyre so crap and they suggested i go on depo in the first place. It does get a lil confusing to keep up on here. So much goes on.

Hope you find your stay with us a short one and keeping our fingers crossed for that :BFP:

Hey Kayleigh,

I just came on..I saw your post..My Ob suggested to me as well to take the depo. So knowing me.."Yea i'll try it out"..Hiff!!..Now i'm having issues..I all ready have my fingers cross for the bfp..Because i wanted a between a spring or summer baby or earlier fall baby(Meaning my due date from the Month or May thou the early weeks of September).

Well I praying that I ovulated this cycle..I'm 5 dpo so i'm going to assume i did. I'lll do my best to keep in touch in here..

 

[Dipar_Butt3]

Hello,
I asked a question on this blog last time, but I’m guessing nobody didn’t have the interest to answer my or just didn’t see it. I wanted to know something. Did anybody in here had a bad experience with Depo-shot? I had my first and I should say my last shot back in 2006 I haven’t had one since. When I had the shot...I didn’t like the effect from it...The joint pain and also I haven’t had a period for all most 10 or 11 months after the first shot...And I was told after you get off. Your body goes back to its self again and you get your periods...Not for me...it wasn’t until a whole year and a half later I started to have my periods. I do not have the money for a RE to give me any meds for to bring on my periods...And when they finally came. My cycles been bad...I’ve had periods that were a to long...
Couple of months I had periods where I went for the half of the month bleeding...Then it went to having 2 periods in a month...

hi hun sorry if your post was missed...i limit myself to how much i come on here as i tend to get obsessed and am on here all day!!

i was on depo for 7 years i used to have awful perods so went on depo didnt have a period for 7 years but had the biggest weight gain ever 3 stones and couldnt shift it despite good diet and excercise!! my moods were awful really snappy and really depressed also very sensitive and took everything to heart and thought the world was against me, loss of labido was a major point also...it wasnt until i came off it till i realised how bad it made me

since coming off it have i didnt see a period for another 11 months have been ttc for 17 months with no joy, back to having really bad periods managed to loose 2 stone another 1 to go!! having 22-25 day cycles now but they have been known to be all over the place and only just stopping with the constant pregnancy symptoms that ive had since stopping the depo

big hugs hope you get your bfp soon xx

Wow you too..See back in 06 my ob suggest that I take the depo just to get me on BC(Birth Control). So knowing me I said "Yea let me try it out". But they didn't tell me all the problems i'm going to have with that shot. And I didn't like the side effect of it. Like what?..Well..Joint pain, breast soreness, no sex drive at all. Yea I was depress as well. My periods were short. But what i didn't like is..When i didn't go for my second shot because of the side effects..I didn't have a period for 10 or 11 months afterwards, when they say after you get off the depo shot, your periods come back again. Not me.

And when they did come back. They were all over the place. There were times i had 3 periods in 1 month..And they told me that was normal getting off the depo..So i was under the impression that I should give my body time to get back on it's monthly cycle(schedule) so i did.

Then I thought ok. So it wants to stay on the 26 day cycle then..No problem..Well when i started to ttc..That is when my cycles started to go hay wire again. And during the ttc. There was a time I thought i was pregnant because I didn't have a period until I was CD 42 and that period was strange..The blood was the darkest that i ever saw it(tmi sorry) and bad cramps..I said i hope that wasn't a m/c. So it's been bad every since and also my DP is 51 and i'm 30 so I'm not sure if his swimmers play a roll here.

I'll let you know..

 

[Dipar_Butt3]

Sooooooo... i have my dr's appt today in about 2 hours to talk about the options i have. Wish me luck girls!

God bless and good luck Jaxvipe..I hope things go well..

 

[Unic21]

Hello Ladies,
Just thought I'd say hi from across the water - and share my experience and say thanks because I've been following your thread and think I might try some of your ideas. I had my first dd in the UK 8yrs ago and after went on depo because the dr said it was good for while breast feeding (and a friend of mine had just got pregnant on the mini pill so I didn't trust that), I went off depo after a year (because I moved back to Oz and my then husband wasn't following for a few months) my period had completely stopped while on the depo and didn't come back until I went on bcp just before my husband joined me here in oz. I didn't ttc until another year after that and fell first month trying off the pill. After dd2 was born tried the implant but had constant spotting and felt horrible, so decided to go back to depo. Anyway ended up divorced and now remarried and want to ttc with current hubby - tried coming off depo onto the pill a couple of times but it didn't agree with me (felt like I had morning sickness the whole time and gained lots of weight) so ended up going back to depo. It's fantastic for me - while I'm on it but since coming off it (five months ago) no sign of periods or if I'm ovulating. I'm considering Agnus Castus or bcp to try to "kick start" things and would love to hear if they are working for you? Also I have had weird hormonal type symptoms - sore (.)(.)'s, mood swings etc. have any of you had these? It's horrible because it's like pregnancy symptoms so I keep doing tests and they keep being negative which is such a heart breaking experience !

 

[Jaxvipe]

I had SEVERE mood swings at night, i would like turn into a a HUGE b*tch. Also, i was VERY hungry all the time,nauseated, etc. Like all the pregnancy symptoms, it really threw me for a loop. I went to the DR's and got a couple months on BCP's. But i got paranoid and only took them for a week and then stopped. I just finished my withdrawl bleed i think. I almost forgot what it was like to have a period! lol. And now i am just waiting it out to see what happens. I have been temping and using OPK's. Temping has been very helpful.

FX'd for US!!

 

[Unic21]

Thanks Jax - I have a drs apptmt next week - think I might try one month of bcp then back to the waiting...

I've tried using opk's before but not consistently and haven't tried temping so will get myself a bbt. Let me know if anything changes...
Keepin fx'd!

 

[emz87]

hey i posted here a while back well my period is almost a month late i had loads of pregnancy symptoms i have done loads of tests all negative.at first i didnt think it was because of the depo as i always had my period every 30/31 days on the depo and was the same when i came off it.The first month i came off it i had preg symptoms and also bled on and off for a month but then had my period on the right date.But now im thinking it must me the depo this time what else could it be.

I hate the depo i have put on 2stone on it which has given me stretchmarks i got told by my midwife to go on it after having my son and i agreed didnt get told nothing about it tho.It should be banned

 

[Kayleigh Lou]

Hey all,

Just thought id breathe some life into this thread again!!! Im off to the docs tonight for some answers. Hopefully i wont be fobbed off with some 'you have to wait' excuse!!!!!!!!

Will update as soon as i get home (about 6ish)

 

[Jaxvipe]

Yay! Let us know how it goes i would love to here what your doc has to say. Seeming as mine was a complete b*tch about it! Good Luck Sweety!!!!! Fx'd for you! Keep us posted.

 

[Kayleigh Lou]

Not really good news im afraid.

He told me to keep trying as normal and try and de stress. In 3 months if im not pregnant and havent had a period then he'll send me for bloods. 3 MONTHS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Im ready NOW!!!!!!!!

 

[Jaxvipe]

UGH!!! Dr's SUCK! Im sorry hun, i hoped they would've done something for you. =( Have you starting charting yet? My chart is looking better, but i am worried that my temps are too low... grrrrrrrrrr DEPO sucks! i hate myself for letting them inject me with it. But FX'd for you that you will get pg soon. Have you have any more bleeding like period or anything?

 

[Kayleigh Lou]

I really should start charting but i just don't have the oompf! I may get a thermometer tomorrow whilst shopping. Plus im ill, had a rotten cold and today i came up in a huge rash all over my body!! Phoned my doc and he told me it sounded like measles. Went up docs and told me it was an allergic reaction to anti boitics i had last week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My cm is all over the place i just dont think i can count on it to help me. lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But no more spotting

 

[Jaxvipe]

I found that charting really help me. I could see a gradual decline in my temps the longer the depo "wore off" and i could start to the hormones "regulate". No my temp shifts are not mountains and valleys but more like little hills. And i gave up on the OPK's because i would get a strong line but it was never as dark as the control line. I have now started to take prenatal vitamins as i read that Depo depletes your B Vitamins so i figured i might as well start taking the prenatals now so get those vitamins back in my body.

CM after depo is VERY unreliable i would get EWCM, then Creamy, then watery all within a matter of 3 days. Its very confusing =(


for us!!

 

[Unic21]

Hi Ladies,
I went to the drs on Thursday, dr said 'be patient' there should be no long term fertility effects but cycles could take a year to come back and we'll worry about it then (so easy for people to say to be patient when they're no the ones wanting to conceive) but he did send me to have some bloods taken - Dr called me and left message that he wanted to discuss results yesterday (missed the call) and when I called back he had left for the day and won't be back until Monday so I have to wait until then to find out results (more being patient!!) I haven't bought a bbt yet (think I will find it harder to be patient if I'm temping every day!). Tried tracking my CM but like you jaxvpipe and kayleigh it's all over the place.... Waiting waiting waiting... Fx'd for all of us! Will let you know what results said when I find out on Mon
Unic

 

[Jaxvipe]

Keep us updated Unic. FX'd its good results =).

 

[Kayleigh Lou]

Thatl be good to find out your blood tests results! then we can compare them to mine! Ooooo so irritating having to wait! I was going to start taking vitamins like folic acid etc

Right ill be back, just off fishing with the kids wahooo NOT!

 

[Unic21]

Well all excited about... well nothing really... Dr tells me the blood tests show that everything is normal, and I should just be ...... patient .....Aaargh!!!!!!!! If anyone know's how to be patient when ttc I could do with some help!!

 

[Kayleigh Lou]

Well thats some good news hun!!!!!!!!!!! Hopefully things will right themselves soon! Patience is not my speciality im afraid, just enjoy all the and relax. Ooooo gives us depo girls some hope! xxxxxx

 

[lesleyann]

Hey ladies im not TTC just yet but my depo runs out in december after speaking to my contraception nurse she recommend i come off it then and go on the pill for a couple of months to start something going then i should be set to TTC at the date i want.


I wish you all good look i have been stalking you on here lol waiting to see a BFP!!! but i shall continue to follow you

 

[Jaxvipe]

Well supposedly i ovulated on Friday (according to FF). But my temps are so low. Im thinking my progesterone might be low. =( im hoping that the next few days it will rise higher.