My gawd, I thought I was the only one who got stupid (well, more than I already am). What a relief to have company.
I just started my placebo week. LET THE GAMES BEGIN! 
Im more into clumsiness, with a side dish of absent-mindedness.
PMS, on the mental side, is like taking 3 pills of concentrated puberty. :eek:
Depo Provera is absolutely wonderful…until you stop taking it, and then you become a weepy, homicidal psychotic wreck prone to panic attacks that doesn’t stop bleeding for literally months on end.
How do I know this? Guess.
Just shy of 3 1/2 months of STRAIGHT bleeding now. Really.
Prostate exams are rather uncomfortable, but in the big scheme of things, they’re not a big deal. Which is why you’ll find that I’ve never started a pit thread whining about prostate exams. 
Thank goodness I’m not alone!!! You’re the only other woman I’ve met with this problem. whew!
/Hijack/
You know, I have to stick up for men a little bit here. Recently, when my husband found a small growth on his testicle, they had to stick a camera in his urethra and a little thingy that bit a chunk of the growth off.
All I had to say was YIKES!!
It seemed like for the rest of the day, because of the waves of pain every time he moved, he was perpetually in the situation of , what he described as,
“that moment of tragic anticipation when a grazing blow has just been dealt to your genitalia… the knowledge that at any moment, searing, nausea inducing pain will erupt from your pelvis and expand through your body.”
/end hijack/
:eek: If I had a weiner, it would shrivel up into my body just having read that!
That sounds AWFUL! Poor guy. Oh, owie, owie, owie! I hope everything turned out to be okay for him.
crossing her legs
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Poor {{{Cerri.}}} Why did you have to stop taking it? And isn’t there anything they can do?
I started taking Depo because I didn’t stop bleeding for 2 months.
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Oh, owie, owie, owie! I hope everything turned out to be okay for him.
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He’s perfectly okay. It was just a cyst, but with these things, it’s better to play it safe and have everything suspicious checked out by a doctor.
Not too long after his experience, I found a lump in my breast, and was greatly relieved when I learned that I wasn’t going to have something similar done. I don’t deal well with pain. I wish I were as tough as he is when it comes to discomfort.
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Oh, owie, owie, owie! I hope everything turned out to be okay for him.
Good. That still sounds awful, though.
I had to get a lump checked myself recently – turned out to be just fibrous tissue. I could have told them I have really dense breasts, but better safe than sorry, I guess.
And, to get back on topic, next week is That Week. Oy.
Ehe - you all have my sympathy. Really. I suspect my age of 43 is a bit young to be menopausal, but am glad to be rid of menstruation. Not liking hot flushes etc though, oh well, the world is just nasty.
One thing - a question. I have often seen people on SDMB recomending Depo Provera, and this slightly confuses me. Reason being, that when I was a 18, 19 ish Celyn consdiering contraceptive choices - well, at that time Depo Provera had a terrible reputation in terms of side effects. (So Celyn used ordinary pill, then changed when that one got a bad press etc, then eventually convinced a doc that “yes I DO want an I.U.D. even if it is not seen as the first choice for women who have no kids”. )
Of course, given the fun of remembering the ( the one that needed to be taken as the same time to within an hour or two each day was not clever!) blasted pill, I personally would have seen Depo as a valid choice, …1 
SO, all I wonder is, is it the case that the stuff once was pretty badly thought of, but it has improved, or did I perhaps just hatch onto the contraceptive scene, as it were, at a time when that was the latest fashionable health scare? Since all (well , most ) SDMB people are pretty clever and together, I am assuming that Depo is now considered fine.
OH well, a matter of academic interest to a menopausal (good) involuntarily celibate (not so good ) Celyn.
(Sending virtual choccy to you all)
I didn’t really have to stop taking, I just switched methods. I’ve pretty much decided I’m just going to go back on it and stay on it. =p
Celyn, Depo is like any other hormonal contraceptive. Some people do wonderfully on it, and other people do horribly on it. The negative side effects of Depo are the same as any other hormonal contraception–water retention, nausea, acne, breakthrough bleeding, breast tenderness, etc. The big issue is that with the pill, if you react horribly, you can quit taking it, whereas if you react horribly to Depo, you’re up the proverbial creek sans paddle.
And a lot depends on the population you’re talking to, too. There were lots of birth control threads on the wedding planning board I used to frequent, and there was a huge contingent of shrill, alarmist twerps there. If they had reacted badly to something, or a friend’s cousin’s roommate had told them about someone who reacted very badly to something, it was the most horrible stuff in the world and nobody should ever try it. I had a woman beg me not to get an IUD, because she’d had one and had every bad side effect you can think of from it. (I got it anyway, and I think it’s the most fabulous thing ever.) Here, if someone has continuous bleeding on Depo, they say, “Yeah, it’s not the right method for me. Might work for you, though.” There, they’d say, “Oh God, you do NOT want to take that stuff! I didn’t stop bleeding for the whole three months, and I gained 20 pounds! Don’t do it!”