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Depo is horrible I was on it for 3 months and bleed for the whole time! Lost my sex drive and after I went off of it I still had a low sex drive after 2 years my body wenty back to normal

I hated depo. I had no sex drive and bled all the time. I wasn't happy or depressed, just there. I was on it for a year and gained a bunch of weight to.

I went to the gyno yesterday and went to lutera and I can’t wait to start using it. I wanted to let you know I found out some interesting information about depo provera. I informed her that I lost my sex drive, then even after I stopped taking depo I could never seem to get wet before sex and would have to use lubrication. The dotor told me that depo is the only birth control that only really has progesterone in it and that estrogen is responsible for making you want sex and making your body in the mood and ready for it. So the dryness I had and lack of sex drive was due to the depo I was so happy to find out that there wasn’t anything wrong with me. She said the lutera(a form of alesse) will add more estrogen so i’ll be better off. I just wanted to share this with you. So depo is horrible! She also said people on depo need to use lubrication! :twisted:

Wow I can't believe that someone is experiencing the low sex drive as well. I've been on depo for 2 years... And for the past year or more- I have had zero sex drive. And it isn't because of disease, or depression or anything. So the only thing I can think to blame it on is the depo. I'm not sure though; but i'm actually going to talk to my doctor about switching to a pill; although my experiences with those have never gone well... Depression and mood changes :-\

I went through a period of low sex drive while I was on depo - but it came back with a vengence really quick lol. Sorry if that's too much info. :)

depo, like any medicine, can have a number of side effects that are different from person to person. The side effects might never show up or they could show up and last only a short amount of time, etc.

I'm sorry you all experienced this on depo.

I also gained weight on depo (about 15 pounds), but looking back I was eating junk and eating a lot more than I should have been eating. It has been difficult for me to lose the weight, but with regular exericse and trying to eat a low fat diet i've been losing about 2 pounds a week for the past three weeks. It's really hard though, a lot harder than I remember from when I wasn't on depo.