That’s pretty much what I told PP as my reason for going off Depo. I was young, single and hot at the time and it pretty much fucked up my sex life. What’s the point of birth control if I couldn’t have any fun? Duh!
One of those things is not like the others.
FTR, you’re still hot. 
Damn, want to borrow my Swiffer wet jet? 
Aww, thanks! And I am totally not sad about that at all since I, pbbth, am more than just a sound effect.
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You have just made my day. Thank you. 
Ditto. Though it doesn’t help that people keep quoting it.
Lord, I’m going to be giggling like a schoolgirl for the next half hour, at least.
Maybe that has something to do with the effectiveness rate of the method. :rolleyes:
I suspect that any medication or treatment aimed at MEN with a “normal” side effect like this would be yanked off the market or at least prescribed a lot more selectively and with more concern shown for such debilitating side effects. Just a hunch.
You may be right. Nothing quite says “Don’t touch me!” like a slaughterhouse in your pants.
5 days? If I were you I’d have run screaming bloody murder to the doctor’s 5 months back.
Nope, that’s what the dogs are for.
You know what’s fun? When they give you a pill they give to hemophiliacs to stop the bleeding. Because that made me feel real good about my teenage self…
When I went off the pill more than a decade ago, after having been on it for about a dozen years, my GP warned me that it would probably take a while for my body to adjust. I didn’t have a period for six months, and then, I had a period that LASTED six months. The flow wasn’t that heavy, though. I kept calling my GP and she kept doing tests to ensure that I wasn’t anemic or anything, and I just rode it out.
I started this thread too a few years ago. I think it may have had the same title! Mine lasted a month. I feel bad for complaining now. 6 months?!
I had a six month (at least) period, but I have a feeling that I’m quite a bit older than you guys. After being on the pill, several transfusions and a D and C, my OBGYN yanked everything out. I was so anemic I could hardly walk across the room. And teaching junior high when you’re paranoid about flooding the room was a joy.:rolleyes:
ghostly woobsquish…in memory
Dude, that’s just gross. Just go about your business and take your grossness somewhere else. 
Robin
This thread makes me mad at doctors. I took depo provera shots for awhile and while I didn’t get my period at ALL during that time, I did have a very serious side effect that should have alerted my doc that I shouldn’t take the shot. I ended up gaining enough weight and being unable to lose it that I eventually resorted to gastric bypass surgery. I remember a nurse remarking, “Oh, you gained 17 pounds this month…eh, probably nothing to worry about.”
Uhh…I’m 5’4"! I was told that the massive weight gain was due to my laziness and poor diet and sent on my way after another shot. I should have slapped the doctor. Actually, I should have been smart enough to stop it without a doctor telling me to do so, but I acted in a spineless manner.
We shouldn’t have to tolerate side effects like these!
I’m going to tell a story. A story I’ve never really gone into detail about with anyone. Only my family knew this up until right now.
I got my first period when I was ten. In November, if I recall. About four or five months later I got a real heavy period. No one thought much about it because it’s a known fact that young girls go through a bit of a wobbly time with their first few periods. But this one didn’t stop. I could barely walk across the room without feeling that telltale “oh crap, run to the bathroom” feeling. I was out of school for about a week and my mom had to do daily laundry because I bled through every single pair of underwear I owned. Two weeks later, it finally ended.
Please note: I was *eleven *when this happened.
A couple of months after that I was diagnosed with ITP which was triggered (as best we know) by the great influx of Puberty Hormones. Which also caused the two-week slasher film I had to live through.
This information, combined with some of the above responses, is the reason why I do not want hormonal birth control, and especially not Depo. I would have to be mildly upset at any bc that put me through that crap again.
Oh my gosh that scares me. Do you know what your haemoglobin level was?
I’m wondering about why I’m having such a long period-here are my thoughts. I didn’t have my period between the ages of 13-21 because of anorexia, they stopped soon after they first started. Then when they came back when i was 21 (im just 24) they scared me so much i couldn’t cope with them. So when I was 23 I started taking the pill constantly to stop the periods. This didnt work so my GP changed me onto the depo. My last depo was in March, I only had two injections. I reckon all the sudden rush of hormones has mucked my body up good and proper, and ive just got to wait it out now until this period stops.
I am NEVER taking any form of contraceptive type pill/injection again!
Come on, there’s no reason to get hysterical.
We should bookmark this thread for the next time someone smugly says “with birth control, women don’t have to deal with the inconvenience of having their period, so they should use that instead of complain about theirs.” :rolleyes:
But seriously, the OP’s doctor has let this go on for 6 months? I know multiple women whose doctors were alarmed enough to give them referals at the 3-4 week mark.