well here goes another story...
i'm 26 years old and have had 2 depo shots so far. i am scheduled to have my 3rd in january, but have decided not to get it. after reading that depo is also used for sex offenders for chemical castration, i was literally appauled. although i had felt that way before reading that info- that my femininity had been taken away from me.
i had never been on birth control before. i had gotten pregnant in may, but didnt find out until the doctors @ the emergency room told me i was bleeding to death from a miscarriage that had ruptured in my fallopian tube. after having major surgery, they told me i would need to decide what method of birth control i wanted (due to the surgery, i could not risk getting pregnant for another 4 months in order to heal). the nurses made depo sound so great & easy, and being groggy from the medication still, i went with that.
in the beginning, i wasnt sure if my emotional problems were from hormones due to the miscarriage or the depo. months later, i began to suspect the depo. i would cry all the time & get angry alot. when i got the 2nd shot, they made me fill out a depression survey- which i basically failed- and suggested antidepressants. i refused. i felt i had too many chemicals in my system already. yet still, there were alot of emotional difficulties afterward. i even sometimes had wished i'd never gone to the hospital and just let myself bleed to death from the miscarriage, because life seemed so hectic & disturbing. even though i am thankful to be alive.
i found this site while researching-- i research alot now because i have so many unanswered questions & fears about depo. and yesterday i noticed some slight spotting. i hadnt had my period for 5 months, and now i am afraid i will get a neverending one, as some of the women here have reported.
so i'm not getting the shot, and i dont think i'm going to go on another form--aside from condoms. i feel like from the miscarriage, i wasnt given the opportunity to handle my emotions properly because depo was interferring. it's just been a really rough year i suppose. and now after reading all these horror stories, i am afraid of what i am about to face by going off depo. it's scary to think that doctors give these shots out so freely, when there are so many side effects for us to deal with in not only the present, but the future....
i'm 26 years old and have had 2 depo shots so far. i am scheduled to have my 3rd in january, but have decided not to get it. after reading that depo is also used for sex offenders for chemical castration, i was literally appauled. although i had felt that way before reading that info- that my femininity had been taken away from me.
i had never been on birth control before. i had gotten pregnant in may, but didnt find out until the doctors @ the emergency room told me i was bleeding to death from a miscarriage that had ruptured in my fallopian tube. after having major surgery, they told me i would need to decide what method of birth control i wanted (due to the surgery, i could not risk getting pregnant for another 4 months in order to heal). the nurses made depo sound so great & easy, and being groggy from the medication still, i went with that.
in the beginning, i wasnt sure if my emotional problems were from hormones due to the miscarriage or the depo. months later, i began to suspect the depo. i would cry all the time & get angry alot. when i got the 2nd shot, they made me fill out a depression survey- which i basically failed- and suggested antidepressants. i refused. i felt i had too many chemicals in my system already. yet still, there were alot of emotional difficulties afterward. i even sometimes had wished i'd never gone to the hospital and just let myself bleed to death from the miscarriage, because life seemed so hectic & disturbing. even though i am thankful to be alive.
i found this site while researching-- i research alot now because i have so many unanswered questions & fears about depo. and yesterday i noticed some slight spotting. i hadnt had my period for 5 months, and now i am afraid i will get a neverending one, as some of the women here have reported.
so i'm not getting the shot, and i dont think i'm going to go on another form--aside from condoms. i feel like from the miscarriage, i wasnt given the opportunity to handle my emotions properly because depo was interferring. it's just been a really rough year i suppose. and now after reading all these horror stories, i am afraid of what i am about to face by going off depo. it's scary to think that doctors give these shots out so freely, when there are so many side effects for us to deal with in not only the present, but the future....
