csilla said:
i totally agree...but my doctor told me that she recommends the patch only cause i have severe depression, which a lot of doctors dont take into account. the drugs mess with your hormones and therefore your mood is affected. so people with depression should take ones with smaller doses or something (this is all what she said...very losely lol) and since the patch is on all the time, the dosage going in to your body at one time is less because it is always on you, so the mood reactions are more stabalized.
now i dont know if this is true, but this is what my doctor told me so i trusted tht cause i dont need my depression to get any worse. does anyone know anything about this??
taking the birth control pills used to help regulate my depression and mood swings too. I usually felt more together when I took it. And then i would sometimes get more depressed when I stopped taking the pills.
I've been on Depo for several years now, and I love it I haven't had a single problem. Not having periods is SO nice. I pay 80 once every 3 months and never worry agian. I tried to take the pill but I bled forever, plus I never remembered to take it. The injection is so much easier.
girlblue said: the idea of constantly wearing something that feels like a bandaid or nicotine patch does not appeal to me. do you at least remove it one week a month so you can have a period? i did the depo shots and hated the side affects. chronic fatigue, vertigo, and depression being the worst. and it took me a year after i stopped it for my body to get back to normal and for me to have a period again. i am now on a low-dosage pill and i have not had any side affects at all. and girls, i think there is something unhealthy about not having a period on a monthly basis.
you do remove it once a month. so three weeks you put it on and one week you have nothing on. i am soo looking forward to that week lol.
poppysprite
Atlanta, GA
February 2003
MAR 01, 2003 07:24 PM