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Re: Depo Provera
From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu Jun 12 23:50:13 2003
Gail,
I don't know if this info will help, but I am in my 30's, and on lupron
depot. It took my body around 3-4 weeks to get used to it. In those
first few weeks, I had heavier periods, and more pain!! But I stayed
with it,and found that my pain has disipated about 98% now. I have been
on it for almost a year now, and don't seem to have too many unbearable
side effects, thank God. Although the hot flashes aren't the greatest.
But they are better than the pain.
What I do worry about, is that my bone density scan showed I did have
some bone loss in my spine. I will be taking add back therapy for the
rest of my treatment with Lupron. Everyone is different, and some
people have had horrible side effects. (to me bone loss is pretty
horrible, if it can't be reversed)I would learn and read everything
about it first. Then decide what is right for you. Good luck and God
Bless!
At Thu, 12 Jun 2003, gail wrote:
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>I was finally diagnosed with endo back in 1997 after many years of pain and
>be told that this pain was natural. I had my first lap in Jan '98 at which
>time I lost half of a ovary due to a large chocolate cyst the size of a
>grapfruit. Within months the pain came back and since then I have been on a
>coarse of birth control as well as 6 months of hell on Zoladex, with which I
>am still cannot loose the excessive weight and I feel that I am not the same
>person that I was before the Zoladex.
>
>I had my second lap May 9th/03, at which point I feel the pain has gotten
>worst, this time I had endo behind my uterus, on my colon and around what is
>left of my ovaries. The pain I have is not really cramps but a horrible pain
>around my rectum...I'll take cramps anyday to this pain.(I too know that if
>I had to give birth that I could do it naturally). Since my last lap I only
>get to see my dr. tommorow for my post op and one of the things he had
>mentioned to me is that he wants to put me on Depo Provera but I know I
>could not live through the same experience that I went through with Zoladex.
> I'm very confused at the moment because I'm 38 and still want children or
>else I would have a hysterectomy.
>
>I'm so tired of living like this at the moment I can't keep a job because of
>the amount of days I miss due to the pain, I'm tired of this damn disease
>having control of my body. My last serious relationship ended because my
>boyfriend couldn't handle this illness and me being depressed all the time.
>I'm sorry if this is a little long but I hope somebody could help with any
>info on Depo. I would really appreciate it and thank you for letting me
>vent.
>
>Gail
>please feel free to email me.
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