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kim21

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getting pregnant after depo provera
Posted: 07-30-08 06:47am

I have recently just had my 2nd depo provera injection and me and my boyfriend have decided that i won't have the next one as we want to start a family. This means i would have been on it for 6 months, how long will it take me to get pregnant after being on it for 6 months?
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Posted: 07-30-08 08:13am

Nobody can tell you. If you weren't on any birth control at all, we still wouldn't be able to tell you. The average healthy couple can take up to a year to conceive. You could get lucky and get pregnant your very first month of trying, or it could take a while. It's all a matter of timing - you have sex around your fertile time, the sperm has to meet the egg, travel down, implant in your uterus before it's reabsorbed by your body, and then it has to hang in there. Some women miscarry before they even know they were ever pregnant. Sometimes the hormones don't build quickly enough to stop your period, and the egg is flushed out with your blood and tissue.

So you see, it's not as easy as telling you when it will happen. You'll just have to be patient, wait for the depo to leave your body, and then try. Good luck.
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Posted: 07-30-08 14:09pm

I found this quote on the FDA website talking about getting pregnant after depo...

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Most women find that because it takes a while to return to a normal menstrual cycle after they have their last injection of DMPA, it can take even longer to become pregnant. DMPA is not a good contraceptive choice if you want to become pregnant in the near future - in the next 12 to 18 months. The number of DMPA injections you have had in the past does not seem to affect how long it takes for you to become pregnant. If you do not want to get pregnant when you stop using DMPA, you need to use another form of contraception.


So, it may take a couple months to return to the normal menstrual cycle. However, since you were only on it for 6 months, I can't imagine it would take a year to get back on track.

I gave you the quote to show you it doesn't keep you from having kids EVER, but that it is just a matter of getting your cycle regular again so you can plan your pregnancy.

Good luck!
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gloswick

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getting pregnant after depo provera
Posted: 08-22-08 09:43am

I took my last depo in August 2006 after being on it for 2 years and 3 months and my periods are still not regular. There were every 4 weeks for a few months, now I have a full period and exactly 14 days later I spot, 14 days later a full one again. Me and my husband are desperate for a baby and I am finding this very stressful. It doesn't help that I seem to be surrounded by pregnant ladies, most of them by accident I may add! Anybody got any advice? Has this happened to anyone else? I just don't know when I am ovulating and it is really getting me down! I have been to the doctor who just says, it takes longer with some women, they have tested my hormone levels and they have come back ok....
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Posted: 08-23-08 10:32am

I was on depo for 8 months. and I am pregnant. I still had a month of it left in me while I was on it. It all depends on yours & his body..
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gloswick

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Extra periods after depo...
Posted: 08-23-08 13:14pm

I am wondering if anybody else experienced periods every 2 weeks after coming off the depo...even after 2 years my body still seems to be sorting itself out. I was very regular before hand....
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