Wow! I had no idea those side effects could last so long. Maybe that's behind my sudden spraining of both ankles that happened months later? I'd always had flop

Wow! I had no idea those side effects could last so long. Maybe that's behind my sudden spraining of both ankles that happened months later? I'd always had floppy ankles, likely to fall over, but never really hurt myself when I did… You're smart to avoid depo provera. I hope you encourage your friends too, as well. I didn't have any of the terrible side effects known at the time (eg. permanent bleeding) but I got glucose intolerance, which causes the body to respond crazy-like to carbohydrates of any kind, and caused me to gain weight no matter what I did. I kept telling the docs, "Something is wrong!" and them saying "No, it'll even out, it's fine." or "Your appetite is just increased," even though my boyfriend backed me up that it was not. Jerks. And of course the combination of depo+weight gain made me depressed and mentally foggy, and even less likely to advocate for myself, a nice one-two punch. I gained so much weight, so fast, over 2 years, that my skin looks like a white-on-white zebra. I'll never look good in a bikini (even if I do manage to ever lose it all, which doesn't seem likely).