What's your opinion on Depo birth control?

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Please, also explain why! I've used it before years ago and have pros and cons but want current opinions on it. Thanks!

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I don’t recommend it because I gained so much wait on it in such a short amount of time and I was dieting and very active to try and prevent that. And because the weight was hormonal I have had such a hard time trying to loose it. It also gave me some of the worst mood swings.

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I gained 35 pounds on the depo shot. I didn’t believe other women when they told me, until it happened to me. 😞 Never again

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No to depo. 
Mood swings from hell. 
+35lbs in like 3 months. 
Impossible time getting pregnant afterwards. Im talking 2+ years. 
Dont do it.

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I gained more weight on the shot than actually being pregnant. I was incredibly depressed.

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I would never recommend depo to anyone. Not only did it make me gain a ton of weight, it caused my thyroid to go out of wack and it's caused issues with my ovaries (I'm still trying to conceive my second baby and hoping I'm not infertile) the depo threw off my hormone balance majorly, caused me to get very very sick. And tbh I don't like having to go to the doctors much less the er and I spent a lot of time at doctor's and in an er. Though I'm not sure if it's just me cause my track record is my body rejects all birth control I've ever tried. The only ones I haven't tried were the Nueva ring and the copper implants thing. I've tried depo, the pills and mini pills, mirena, skyla, nexaplanon and etc. All of which I had horrid reactions too and caused emense pain

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After being on many different forms of bc I don’t recommend any. I use fam, wd and a diaphragm.

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I loved it. I didn’t have any bad side effects to it.

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I don’t recommend it if you plan to get pregnant, it takes about 10 months after last injection to get pregnant if that. Otherwise it’s quite a good contraception option

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I don’t recommend it because Ive only had one shot almost 7 months ago and still havent had a period.

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I started it in September.. no period.. October started and on the 1st I started bleeding heavily... It didn't stop (eased up) until the 3rd of November. Had a "regular period" and then December started had a "regular period" but the bleeding didn't stop... I am now into day 20 of on and off again bleeding.. sometimes barely, other times heavy and bright red. I lost my insurance, so I cannot afford to go back to OB doctor and anyway all he did was prescribed a week worth of estrogen pills that didn't help at all. I didn't want the depo, I just knew I needed birth control and I felt pressured and trusted him (since he delivered both my little angels) I would personally rather run nude through a Walmart than ever get the depo shot again. I'm utterly miserable and I hate my body.. it failed both my kids, and it's just sh*t

What's your opinion on Depo birth control?

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