Thread: My experience with Depo Provera

I'm 17 years old & once I started on Depo it stopped my menstrual cycle completely. I've been experiencing painful sex & extreme mood swings. Everything is just now starting to add up for me...I've been trying to figure out why I've been experiencing these problems & I've come to the conclusion that it's the shot after researching online & hearing the same effects from other women. Every single day I experience these mood swings. I get really irritable & moody. With the painful sex, it's not just a now and then situation..it happens every time. So that's not normal!! & it's really scaring me & I'm afraid that I'll never be able to enjoy sex again...I'm afraid to have sex. I've gotten checked for STDS twice & both times the doctor has thought that I had Clamydia or Gonnorrhea but both times I've showed up clean. It's been 4 months since my last depo shot & I've switched to the pill. (ortho trycyclen lo.) I've been on the pill for 29 days & I just started my period today. Everytime I start reading about Depo Provera all it makes me do is cry. I will never take this type of birth control again!!