NO ONE here can answer that but her doctor. From what I understand, if you are on depo for a long time, periods can become very light or even stop. But no one knows the situation well enough or is familiar with your gf's medical record, so if she is unsure about whether or not she's having periods, she needs to talk to her doctor to make sure everything is normal. In the meantime, here's a link to the depo website - under "what to expect" they go over how your body will adjust depending on when you started taking it: http://www.depoprovera.com/index2.asp?story=1#
Good luck. If she can't find the info on the website or in the information packet the doctor gave her, she should call her doctor. An advice nurse would probably be able to give her guidance over the phone.
Depro affects different women different ways. The spotting is that: spotting. If it is at a time when a period was expected perhaps it is the period.
I have had more difficulty helping women to adjust to depro than any other hormonal system. Some like it; some don't, but once begun, you are with it for a while. Some women go for a long time without a period after stopping the shot. You must discuss this with your doctor.
As stated below I agree. Personal experience? First injection (each lasts the three months) I spotted randomly. After, the next and for a few years no issue. Could not return to a period for a year [after stopping it]; it had to be induced since we were trying to conceive.
Thanks for the info! ok, one last thing that i never quite understood, if a womans period stops completely like after being on depro for a few months is it still possible to concieve? I alwase understood it as, a woman can not become pregnent if she does not have a period. Just wondering if this is true?
[quote=ShadowMan;199475]Thanks for the info! ok, one last thing that i never quite understood, if a womans period stops completely like after being on depro for a few months is it still possible to concieve? I alwase understood it as, a woman can not become pregnent if she does not have a period. Just wondering if this is true?
Thanks alot[/quote]Once you begin Depo your reproductive organs goes to a state of "hibernation". Adjustment is the bleeding & side effects; once the shot is in I believe they tell you wait 24 hours [she needs to talk to the doc on that] until you are protected. Bleeding means nothing if ll was done correctly with beginning the shot and following the next scheduled with the 5 day window. It stops ovulation and quickly the period. The depo prevent ovulation [the release of an egg] the bleeding is a normal reaction for the first three months...it's intermittent. Once the depo shot is stopped permanently, after the last injection hits the three month mark another form of bc must be used. You could not know when if or you you will ovulate and a period may or may not ensue. No there is no truth to no period=no conception. Although I stopped it and was over the year mark with no period without the Depo, I still could have ovulated at some time...always the risk pregnancy but we waited a few months using another form (C. Cap) after the last Depo shot was at 3 months; then stopped all BC. We were trying to have one. At one year went to the gyn and she induced a period and cycle through meds..body went back to normal then.
NO ONE here can answer that but her doctor. From what I understand, if you are on depo for a long time, periods can become very light or even stop. But no one knows the situation well enough or is familiar with your gf's medical record, so if she is unsure about whether or not she's having periods, she needs to talk to her doctor to make sure everything is normal. In the meantime, here's a link to the depo website - under "what to expect" they go over how your body will adjust depending on when you started taking it: http://www.depoprovera.com/index2.asp?story=1#
Good luck. If she can't find the info on the website or in the information packet the doctor gave her, she should call her doctor. An advice nurse would probably be able to give her guidance over the phone.
Depro affects different women different ways. The spotting is that: spotting. If it is at a time when a period was expected perhaps it is the period.
I have had more difficulty helping women to adjust to depro than any other hormonal system. Some like it; some don't, but once begun, you are with it for a while. Some women go for a long time without a period after stopping the shot. You must discuss this with your doctor.
As stated below I agree. Personal experience? First injection (each lasts the three months) I spotted randomly. After, the next and for a few years no issue. Could not return to a period for a year [after stopping it]; it had to be induced since we were trying to conceive.
Thanks for the info! ok, one last thing that i never quite understood, if a womans period stops completely like after being on depro for a few months is it still possible to concieve? I alwase understood it as, a woman can not become pregnent if she does not have a period. Just wondering if this is true?
Thanks alot
[quote=ShadowMan;199475]Thanks for the info! ok, one last thing that i never quite understood, if a womans period stops completely like after being on depro for a few months is it still possible to concieve? I alwase understood it as, a woman can not become pregnent if she does not have a period. Just wondering if this is true?
Thanks alot[/quote]Once you begin Depo your reproductive organs goes to a state of "hibernation". Adjustment is the bleeding & side effects; once the shot is in I believe they tell you wait 24 hours [she needs to talk to the doc on that] until you are protected. Bleeding means nothing if ll was done correctly with beginning the shot and following the next scheduled with the 5 day window. It stops ovulation and quickly the period. The depo prevent ovulation [the release of an egg] the bleeding is a normal reaction for the first three months...it's intermittent. Once the depo shot is stopped permanently, after the last injection hits the three month mark another form of bc must be used. You could not know when if or you you will ovulate and a period may or may not ensue. No there is no truth to no period=no conception. Although I stopped it and was over the year mark with no period without the Depo, I still could have ovulated at some time...always the risk pregnancy but we waited a few months using another form (C. Cap) after the last Depo shot was at 3 months; then stopped all BC. We were trying to have one. At one year went to the gyn and she induced a period and cycle through meds..body went back to normal then.