I started getting the depo shot when I was 15 years old because I did become sexually active with my boyfriend. I got the shot every 3 months until I was 19 years old. I gained so much weight. I went from 150 to 230 pounds! And now as much as I work out and eat healthy the weight doesn't even much budge. Now I am 21 years old, married and trying to have a baby. My husband and I have unprotected sex about 4 times a week and still not able to concieve. I loved not having my period while being on the shot.. but since I've gotten off the shot my periods have been very irregualar and painfull. I went almost 1 year with no period and that was being off the shot for 2 years! Now I got a period after about a year from my last one and I have been bleeding for a month straight. Not heavy, just continuous spotting. My doctor tells me my bone density is low and the period isn't menstruation, it's blood clots that have formed from the using of the birth control. It has pretty much made me sterile and I have no chance of conceiving my own child without paying thousands of dollars for fertility treatment.
THIS SHOT HAS RUINED MY LIFE!!! I really with I would have read up on the side effects or my doctor at the time would have at least warned me. If I could give this shot negative stars I would. Be warned ladys... this shot is the worst possible thing you could subject your body and heath to.