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Χαλαρά asked in HealthWomen's Health · 1 decade ago

Help! Birth control?! Going from depo issues to pills?

I went on birth control for the first time July with depo. It totally scewed me up. Long, nasty periods but always a month apart while it was active.

I was due for my second in October, but I hated it and let it expire.

I continously bled for the most part all the way up until a few weeks ago!

The last month I've gotten a couple days of bleeding every couple weeks, and the last time was last week and it was just spotting and I don't know if it's gonna happen again or if it's leaving my system.

I have spoken to my DR, she said its the side effects of depo and she says the pill will get me back on track, but I had to work and didn't have time to discuss the starting details with her.

*Do you just start or is it like at the begining or end of your period?

(The last date I can say for sure my period started was July 24, 2006).

*It takes a full cycle to get it into full effect?

*Does the pill have the same side effects, like bleeding all the time?

Thanks much!

Update:

My doctor and other who've been on depo confirm that my bleeding... now spotting can be a hassle of depo.

My question is how can I start the pill when I'm not even sure when my real periods are?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    You are supposed to take it at the end of your period, It does take a full cycle to be effective, and no you shouldn't be bleeding or spotting except for your period.

  • 4 years ago

    i replaced into on the mini pill and that i want the shot by way of fact i ought to hardly confirm you're taking my pills and the shot is something carried out infrequently which you extremely do no longer ought to think of approximately greater effective than as quickly as each twelve weeks or every time you have a psychotic episode by way of hormones in it or once you're recognizing for the 1st few months on it. those issues suck fairly undesirable, yet I even have been on it for 9 months and the only adverse area effects i will record are temper swings and the recognizing factor. different than that this is been wonderful for me, i've got no longer gained any weight and that i in my opinion like no longer having to keep in mind a stupid pill and then freaking out as quickly as I understand on Saturday that throughout the time of a roundabout way tuesday's pill continues to be there. yet all and sundry reacts in a distinctive thank you to it, some females benefit a ton of weight, get truly undesirable zits and unusual bleeding, in spite of the reality that i in my opinion have not had one era in view that i began out the factor. i'm uninterested in hormoned nevertheless by way of fact they make me a sprint wacky, yet lots of the adverse area effects of the shot are the comparable with the pill, so this is all a remember of non-public decision. additionally, it could soak as much as a year after having your final shot to your era to return to standard, and utilising it for greater effective than 2 years could reason bone wellbeing matters. So in spite of, the only thank you to be attentive to the way it is going to effect YOU is to objective it by way of fact all and sundry is distinctive and all and sundry's physique reacts in a distinctive thank you to those issues.

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