from what my doctors have told me yourr bones can get very weak on the depo shot
they say to take calcium every day or get some kinda calcium intake due to that
if u dont want the bones of a 60 yr old by the time ur 30... im sorry to hear
about your broken leg i wish they had this website long ago so other people can
share and tell their stories or what they have heard about the depo shot i hope
u have a quick recovery


Carlise Newman <catzz3@...> wrote:
hey everyone....
i was very happy on depo and just went off of it about
a month ago, back to orals so i can plan on kids. i
loved depo, it was so great to go without periods for
almost 10 years.
however three weeks ago i was taking out some trash
and fell down the back stairs...about 6 stairs...and
broke my leg severely. my fibula snapped and broke
through the skin. the tibia is also broken. i have a
steel rod and pins in my leg and a 15-lb cast.
the doctors were confused as to why a short fall
resulted in such a horrible (extremely painful) break.
anyway, no one can really say, but i have to wonder if
depo is at least partially to blame. i was good about
taking calcium at first, but i was too lazy later on,
and i could no longer digest dairy.
if anyone had a similar experience, please share. i am
clumsy, it's true, and it was an accident. but i
wonder if my bones are extremely weak due to the
prolonged depo shots.
--- wlynette1973 <wlynette1973@...> wrote:

> I was on Depo Prevera for eight years and did not
> have any side
> effects to my knowledge or were bad enough to even
> discuss. I too
> have read the horror stories that some women went
> through and I
> truely sympathize with them. The thing is though,
> with EVERY
> medication, there is some kind of side effect. If
> this is not the
> right one for you, get off it and try another. I
> believe it is good
> to do research before trying something and then
> decide of you want
> to take the chance and risk those side effects.
> Grant it, when I
> first started in '95, all I had to read was the
> little pamphlet from
> the doctor's office. There was no site at that time
> where you could
> go and find out information. Reading some of the
> stories would have
> definately made me think twice about using it. I am
> now off and
> trying other methods of birth control. Not because
> of the stories,
> but just because I thought eight years was long
> enough and my body
> needed a break. I am glad to find a site where
> there are women who
> did not have horror stories-I was starting to feel
> guilty about not
> having any complications-not that I would want any.
> Thank you for
> this site.
>
>




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