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I took 2 depo shots back in 2018 & it put my body into menopause. I was only 23 years old & contacted a lawyer to sue my Dr's because urgent care scans on my bones said I was rapidly losing bone in my joints & THEY said it's concerning. But my doctor wanted to see if this was from stress or hereditary first. I called my ob back & let them know I am contacting a lawyer because I am so unwell I couldn't walk & it had been 13 months without a period since Depo There are lawsuits today & I've joined in. It did majorly affected my fertility & THEY had to pay for ME to get injection hormone therapy through IVF bc of my body was literally in menopause.
I had the depo shot for a few months and it really messed me up too. It took me over a year to regulate my hormones. It’s literally made me crazy.
Depo shots stopped mine completely but so did the progesterone only pill in general so it’s not uncommon I switched between the 2 for about 10 years. Every so often I would take a break just for a cycle and restart. Only issue I had over time was increased bp but every 3 months I would get it checked and reassessed to see if I should stay in it
I had 3 injections and bled for the whole 9 months. Had a really bad experience with the nurses with it as after the first I didn’t want more and they kept telling me it’s normal it will die down by injection 3 (spoiler alert, it didn’t!!!) I was really sore at this point!! Turns out when I spoke to another different nurse I’m part of like 0.00001% of people that it affects that way (constant bleeding) so they didn’t think it was that and I will never ever get it again in the future.
When I first started taking it I didn’t have one for about 5 months, now I just randomly bleed for a few days, I used to bleed quite a bit at first like 30 days+ now it’s just under 7 xx
I had it for 9 years with no periods came off it took 5 months for a period then fell pregnant straight away then had my second child back on it now for 2 years no periods again
I was on the depo ages ago and stopped it in 2018. My period stopped completely. Once I stopped the depo, it never came back. Maybe I’m just a one off situation and I definitely don’t want to alarm you but I had issues with fertility when I stopped the depo shot and decided to do ivf last year. Now after having my son, I use the ring contraceptive and get a short period regularly.