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Injection?
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Has anyone had the pill injection, or whatever it is? I don't know anything about it, other than you only have to have it done every couple of months. Was thinking maybe it's a lot easier than taking the pill? Cos i forget all the time!
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Saying all that, my best friend was on it for years and thought it was great. She has only had to come off it now as there is thrombosis in her family. Also it can interfere with future fertility i think.
The other thing with the injection is that if you were to decide to try for a baby some time later on it can take anything up to a year for the injection to work itself out of your system.
So Id say to you maybe give it a go, hopefully you will be fine, if not just dont have any more injections. You may find that it suits you ok and have no problems, maybe stop your periods or just have light ones. It is so much easier than having to remember to take the pill.
Everyone is different so just because you have heard the shock stories it doesent mean that the sames going to happen to you
However, having no period is FANNYTASTIC! no spots, cramps, nasty mood swings!
Again, However, leading up to the last week where you are due for your next one, you may experience a big blur of much0s PMS, cause I did. And bugger, it was nasty.
And I also think that is what has put soem weight on me, which is a stone and a bit. I've had around..4 injections now, it's great when you have a bloke and you know he's clean and he's willing to sleep on the wet patch however, if you aint, it's really unessacery methinks.
try it and see your side effects. won't hurt ya.
But you can also have side effects with the pill, the coil infact any medication whatsoever. What happens is you always hear the bad sides and never really hear the good points.
If you get the injection and do suffer from any side effects then just dont have no more. I guarantee if you are one of the many people who do not have any side effects then the injection pill will be the best move you could ever have made.
Exactly, purely based on your bad experience. what about the thousands of people who have little or no problem? Just because it was no good for you it doesent mean its going to have the same effect on Faith.
Its a risk taking almost any medication, you may get side effects. Its wether you are prepared to try it and hope it works or wether you think sorry im not taking the risk.
Yes you can get the pill from the family planning clinic, you will probably be asked some questions, maybe blood pressure taken and the doctor will ask about what you have maybe used in the past.
As far as the injection, just remember im one of the people who had breakthrough bleeding in the beginning, just till my body adjusted to it. After everything settled down it was the best form of contraception, for me anyway. Why dont you discuss it with the familly planning clinic, let them give you all the pros and cons after all they know a lot more than we do
Also did you get no side effects at all? What about the lack of sex drive that i thought was a pretty universal side effect?
I know this was meant for Beckyboo but my experience is that i have still got my normal sex drive, definetly!:)
I'm not saying you should or you shouldn't take it as it is up to you but my experience with it is good but if i couldn't have children later on in life, i would die.
I was on depo provera for about 3 years altogether (not exactly sure but for quite some time anyway) . I did not want to get pregnant because at this time id already had my cot death baby. I then decided that I was ready to have another child, which I did and now have my Daughter. She is 7 now, so approx 6 -7 months after my last injection is when I fell pregnant with her.
I got side effects at the beginning, which was breakthrough bleeding. Then after about 3 injections it sorted itself out and I basically never had a period, or if I did it was very light.
I didnt get lack of sex drive, infact it was the other way. Because before that I was frightened to get pregnant and didnt trust any other form of contraception, so when I started having hardly any periods I felt safe. I was told at the time that the injection was the safest form of contraception, so NO it didnt effect my sex drive