If the affordability is a factor in adopting, have you considered fostering a child?We won’t be able to afford it until I’m out of school, which could be anywhere from 4 to 6 years, so I’m hoping that will be enough time to get him completely on board.
I actually know someone who gained 50lbs after having the shot. They haven’t had kids since, but I’m not sure if that’s why.
Have never used depo but I studied it in college and if it’s used for too long it can mess with your fertility and can even cause infertitlity.
This might be why I’m having such a hard time??? I took BCP for the same reasons and then when I married I continued it for a yr… argh! If I would’ve known better too… I alway regret having used the pill, I used it from 6/2000 - 3/2007. I might have killed my fertility too since I am finding out I have problems with cysts post-pill.Well, my mistake was similar. I was talked into BCP for my heavy, irregular periods. In my defense, I was young, stupid, and not Catholic at the time.
Anyway, they threw me into full blown PCOS. I know I had the tendency for it before, looking back, but they are definitely what cranked it into high gear. So then I spent the next 10 years trying to have another baby, and couldn’t. I’m going to make SURE my daughters know the dangers of those things well before any doctor tries to pressure them into taking them.
I was just plain dumb and was only 18. I wanted to know exaclty when I’d get AF so I got on it. I knew it was 30 or so days for me but I just didn’t like knowing what day I’d get it. I never had painful cramps or long periods, or missed periods… I never had problems with AF before the pill so who knows. I wasn’t TTC since I was young and unmarried.Ok Girls I agree the pill is awful and it can harm fertility, but have you ever thought that you had a fertility problem that was not being treated properly because of poor education of the docter and yourselves. What if God gave you the knowledge about birthcontrol so that you could finally get to the bottom a fertility issue that has been with you for a long time. I will be praying for you. Keep taking it one breath at a time, doing as God would have you do with each breath.
God didn’t give me “knowledge” about Birth Control. The Church and, through Her, God teach that all contraception is inherently wrong as it is an abuse of the gift of sexuality which we were given. I did not know this. A misguided midwife suggested the birth control two weeks after my son’s birth, when the pain of the birth was fresh in my mind, and NEVER told me the risks inherent with it such as blood clotting, sterility, infertility, weight gain, depression. If I had known I certainly WOULD NOT have gotten that stupid shot.Ok Girls I agree the pill is awful and it can harm fertility, but have you ever thought that you had a fertility problem that was not being treated properly because of poor education of the docter and yourselves. What if God gave you the knowledge about birthcontrol so that you could finally get to the bottom a fertility issue that has been with you for a long time. I will be praying for you. Keep taking it one breath at a time, doing as God would have you do with each breath.
I’m with you on the not having the knowledge either and if I had been warned about the pill’s effects, then I wouldn’t have taken it.
This is why it’s so very important that we get the message out. Ignorance is killing our daughters, and I’m not talking about the ignorant stuff they teach in school which they label “sex education”, I’m talking about the truth. About the things which birth control can and does do to a body, about the real effects of abortion aside from the obvious, about the real effects of pre-marital sex and the way it damages you and taints the very relationships you are trying so hard to keep. I’m so mad about the way this culture misinforms both young girls and young boys about sex.
See, that was me too! I actually got a blood clot, a DVT, in my leg caused by the BCP, and no one EVER told me that was a risk!!! It wasn’t until AFTER that clot, and finally seeing a Reproductive Endocrinologist, that they tested me and found out I have a clotting disorder. So the BCP literally could have killed me if that clot would have gone to my lungs, or heart, or brain.
OMG Teak! Yes, you are lucky you weren’t killed! How scary!See, that was me too! I actually got a blood clot, a DVT, in my leg caused by the BCP, and no one EVER told me that was a risk!!! It wasn’t until AFTER that clot, and finally seeing a Reproductive Endocrinologist, that they tested me and found out I have a clotting disorder. So the BCP literally could have killed me if that clot would have gone to my lungs, or heart, or brain.
Thank goodness it was caught!No, I’ve never had that suggested, although one doctor did prescribe prenatal vitamins but she just told me it was so that if I did get pregnant I would be healthy.
B-6 has been said to help in the progesterone phase. My nurse had me use it to help with nausea in early pregnancy. It has been suggested by some NFP docs and common folk that it can help support an early placenta to help ward off miscarriage. But then I’ve had non-NFP docs poo-poo this advice as “old wives tales.”
That probably explains why my dr told me to take it for my spotting.
Probably not a good idea at this point. I’m a PhD candidate with a lab research-based thesis project, and DH works full time. Even if we were able to have some kind of normal hours, I can’t imagine an agency placing a child with us (and I would agree with them, it wouldn’t be best for the child). It’s kind of a silver lining of this whole infertility mess that I was able to go back to school, as I’d really wanted to but expected that I wouldn’t ever be able to once we had kids. I guess God wanted me to get this out of the way first.
