Depo Provera is some nasty shit. My 18-year-old stepdaughter went to Planned Parenthood for birth control and they put her on Depo. She was living at her mother's at the time. Then she moved into our house. The depo shots were once every three months. So she hadn't been living with us very long when she went and got her second depo shot. Then the seizures started. Not huge seizures, but seizures none-the-less. We took her to the hospital after one we witnessed. The neurologist put her on anti-seizure meds and she couldn't drive for 90 days. The seizure meds were a total nightmare. So we took her to a chiropractic neurologist. Guess what he said: "It's probably the depo."
But she didn't want to get off the depo. About 4 or 5 months ago, she finally switched off of depo to the pill. Guess what? No more seizures AND...
Her mood and personality have gone back to who she used to be before the depo. That stuff was messing with her in the worst way. And at the very age when kids just don't want to listen to anything their parents say.
I had read up on depo during all of this and was amazed to find that longterm depo use, not surprisingly, is tied to infertility. What a shocker. And they're giving it to 18 year old girls, who don't know any better. I even talked to a nurse who defended the practice, who said she had not heard that it messed with fertility. Really?!
Keep your daughters away from depo. It was a long battle we had with ours, most of which battle involved giving her the information and then letting her suffer the consequences of not acting in her own best interest. I'm happy to say, she figured it out and is so much better.
That's what I call de-coding. Amen
You just wrinkled my brain!
Depo Provera is some nasty shit. My 18-year-old stepdaughter went to Planned Parenthood for birth control and they put her on Depo. She was living at her mother's at the time. Then she moved into our house. The depo shots were once every three months. So she hadn't been living with us very long when she went and got her second depo shot. Then the seizures started. Not huge seizures, but seizures none-the-less. We took her to the hospital after one we witnessed. The neurologist put her on anti-seizure meds and she couldn't drive for 90 days. The seizure meds were a total nightmare. So we took her to a chiropractic neurologist. Guess what he said: "It's probably the depo."
But she didn't want to get off the depo. About 4 or 5 months ago, she finally switched off of depo to the pill. Guess what? No more seizures AND...
Her mood and personality have gone back to who she used to be before the depo. That stuff was messing with her in the worst way. And at the very age when kids just don't want to listen to anything their parents say.
I had read up on depo during all of this and was amazed to find that longterm depo use, not surprisingly, is tied to infertility. What a shocker. And they're giving it to 18 year old girls, who don't know any better. I even talked to a nurse who defended the practice, who said she had not heard that it messed with fertility. Really?!
Keep your daughters away from depo. It was a long battle we had with ours, most of which battle involved giving her the information and then letting her suffer the consequences of not acting in her own best interest. I'm happy to say, she figured it out and is so much better.
Not to mention they tag the end of it with the name of the Egyptian god, Ra.