Depo-provera, week one
May. 13th, 2009 10:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marydellSo I got the shot on Friday. I got the full-strength shot, figuring that if I get the weaker shot and it doesn't stop the pain, I'll have to try the stronger shot before I know if this is the right path, whereas if I get the stronger shot and it does help, but I don't like the side effects, I still have the weaker one as an option. Basically I just don't want to screw around with this any more.
Five days in, my experience is probably meaningless, but I'm going to record it anyway because it may be useful for some other woman, including for future-me, who probably will forget this stage of things.
Good: I've been cheerful. Probably because of having a sense of progress, rather than for anything hormonal, but maybe it's the shot. My energy is much better, and my appetite is less--probably because I eat constantly to fuel up, and I don't feel tired most of the time now. This has got to be the shot; I've been doing a whole lot of stuff I'm normally too fatigued for. I hadn't thought of the regular tiredness as a problem, because I have a fairly sedentary job, but the doctor didn't like it and has sent me for a thyroid test just in case.
Bad: I've had a headache or two. I've been unreasonably sleepy, although that's passing. Sleepy as distinct from tired--if I hop up off the couch and go do something, I'm fine and have plenty of energy, but if I sit still I get snoozy. And I'm very VERY achey today--my neck & shoulders are really stiff, which has been coming on for a couple of days. This is partly because of being more active suddenly (a lot of my activity involves slinging Charlie over my shoulder), but I also think it's the shot.
Neutral: I'm craving red meat. I normally eat it pretty often anyway, but I suddenly am craving protein in general and red meat in particular, rather than carbs and more carbs, which is my usual staple food. Not that I don't still want carbs. But I'm thinking about what to have for lunch and "steak and eggs" is kind of obsessing me. Even though I'm allergic to eggs. So, I've started taking a multivitamin but I can see I'll need to figure out some kind of proper nutrition, food-wise. Depo-provera lowers your good cholesterol and raises your bad cholesterol, and mine is already bad, so I need to try to keep my steak ratio fairly low.
Fot those who've had provera side-effects (i.e. anyone who's ever taken it), did they start right away? I assume they are going to build over time but I'm not sure when I should expect the bigger stuff to hit me. Presumably it'll depend on what the stuff actually does to my period, combined with the weird hormones I seem to have naturally.
Five days in, my experience is probably meaningless, but I'm going to record it anyway because it may be useful for some other woman, including for future-me, who probably will forget this stage of things.
Good: I've been cheerful. Probably because of having a sense of progress, rather than for anything hormonal, but maybe it's the shot. My energy is much better, and my appetite is less--probably because I eat constantly to fuel up, and I don't feel tired most of the time now. This has got to be the shot; I've been doing a whole lot of stuff I'm normally too fatigued for. I hadn't thought of the regular tiredness as a problem, because I have a fairly sedentary job, but the doctor didn't like it and has sent me for a thyroid test just in case.
Bad: I've had a headache or two. I've been unreasonably sleepy, although that's passing. Sleepy as distinct from tired--if I hop up off the couch and go do something, I'm fine and have plenty of energy, but if I sit still I get snoozy. And I'm very VERY achey today--my neck & shoulders are really stiff, which has been coming on for a couple of days. This is partly because of being more active suddenly (a lot of my activity involves slinging Charlie over my shoulder), but I also think it's the shot.
Neutral: I'm craving red meat. I normally eat it pretty often anyway, but I suddenly am craving protein in general and red meat in particular, rather than carbs and more carbs, which is my usual staple food. Not that I don't still want carbs. But I'm thinking about what to have for lunch and "steak and eggs" is kind of obsessing me. Even though I'm allergic to eggs. So, I've started taking a multivitamin but I can see I'll need to figure out some kind of proper nutrition, food-wise. Depo-provera lowers your good cholesterol and raises your bad cholesterol, and mine is already bad, so I need to try to keep my steak ratio fairly low.
Fot those who've had provera side-effects (i.e. anyone who's ever taken it), did they start right away? I assume they are going to build over time but I'm not sure when I should expect the bigger stuff to hit me. Presumably it'll depend on what the stuff actually does to my period, combined with the weird hormones I seem to have naturally.
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Date: 2009-05-13 08:08 pm (UTC)I was on Depo Provera for 9 years. I had what I guess you could call 'morning sickness'--very mild nausea in the mornings for the first few days after the first 2 or 3 injections, and my period stopped, but other than that, I was fine.
What messeed me up was going OFF the depo after 9 years. I got very depressed and gained 30 lbs. yucko.