#depoprovera

[feministdragon]

"If one looks at the strategies, tactics and technology used in countries like India, Bangladesh, China, Singapore under the guise of ‘family planning’, one cannot help but recognize a virtual trend towards gynocide. Not only have Third World women, particularly in India and Bangladesh, unhesitatingly been used as guinea pigs by the multinational pharmaceutical industries to test dangerous contraceptives and methods, like amniocentesis,2 but contraceptives like Depoprovera, which were banned in the USA because of their carcinogenic qualities, have been massively dumped in many Third World countries.3 The government of Bangladesh was forced not only to allow all kinds of scientific experiments to be carried out on its territory, but also to buy huge amounts of contraceptives from the Western pharmaceutical industry (Minkin, 1979). In all this, some of the scientific lieutenants in the international war against population growth not only advocated compulsory measures, but also the open use and strengthening of patriarchal or sexist attitudes. Already in 1968 William McElroy, in a controversy with Kinglsey Davis who advocated compulsion, said:

‘In most societies male babies are more desirable than females and if the male were the first offspring, the motivation for having additional offspring would be reduced’ (McElroy, 1968, quoted in Mass, 1975: 22).

In 1973, the biologist Postgate goes a step further in deliberately advocating sex selection as a method of population control. Vimal Balasubrahmanyan refers to the Male Utopia thus propagated by people like Postgate:

Postgate argues that birth control ‘does not work’ in the countries that ‘need it most’ and ‘alternative methods of population control such as war, disease, legalised infanticide and euthanasia are rejected as they are not selective, acceptable, quickly effective or permanent enough’. He suggest that ‘breeding male is the only solution which meets all the above criteria’. Countless millions of people would leap at the opportunity to breed male (particularly in the third world) and no compulsion or even propaganda would be needed to encourage its use, only evidence of success by example (Balasubrahmanyan, 1982: 1725).

Meanwhile, with the advance of sex-preselection technology, amniocentesis and the ultrasound scanner, the prospect of ‘breeding male’ has become practice, not only in India but, with even more far-reaching consequences, in China. In India, the practice of aborting female foetuses, after sex determination by amniocentesis, became a public issue only after it became known that some clever doctors in Amritsar had made a flourishing business out of Indian parents’ preference for male offspring. They advertised to do both sex-preselection and abortion of female foetuses. After the protests by many women’s groups in India, the practice will, as Vimal Balasubrahmanyan fears, simply continue in a more discreet way, particularly when ultrasound scanning becomes widely available.

During a visit to India in summer 1984 I learned that sex-preselection and the abortion of female foetuses were already practised by many low caste and poor people in the countryside of Maharashtra.

The case of China is even more horrifying since here the whole mighty state and party apparatus is mobilized to implement the one-child policy which constitutes part of the modernization strategy of China after Mao. ‘Breeding male’ may not be a deliberate strategy of the Chinese government, but is, as Elisabeth Croll and other have shown, the inevitable result of the contradictions between furthering small peasants’ private landownership, the continuation of patrilocal marriage and family patterns, and the one-child policy of the state. Peasants who still largely have to depend on their children for old-age security want sons, since the sons inherit the family plot and remain in the village. Daughters are married to some other family and village, as is the case in India.

Daughters, therefore, are not wanted. This situation is aggravated by the policy of the government to reward those who follow the one-child norm: they get more private land, if they are peasants, and they get more room, more school and health facilities, more modern equipment, if they live in the cities.

Thus, those who get most land have least family labour to work on it. This contradiction combined with the compulsory measures of the government, the interplay of incentives and discentives under the total control of the party, and growing neo-patriarchal attitudes and relations put women under pressure from all sides, so much so that female foeticide has risen to alarming dimensions."

This was published in 1986, by the way. And yet it still describes what's happening now to a large degree.

Patriarchy and Capital Accumulation  Maria Mies p.185

[vgilantee]

what BC are u on? im on depoprovera and she completely killed my libido… i guess she’s doing her job tho cause no ovulating + no sex = 10000% no baby but im feeling increasingly worse about it… Im curious to what BC doesn’t have that particularly side effect. But maybe you’re built different

im on Zoely (Nomegestrol acetate) and have been for a little over a year now. it's kinda pricey, but my gp said it had the least amount of side effects because it's newer, so I'm happy to pay that bit more.

I'm on it because of irregular periods (and potential pcos), so my doc and I spoke mostly about that side of it. also because I was and still am a virgin, that side of it... not in use lmao

I could also just be built different because im on BC and SSRI's and yet somehow. so horny all the damn time 😭 (ssri's just means it takes. forever to finish).

[ketsmine]

not pregnant ! and started new Birth Control . the patch !!! because

-depoprovera made me bleed for 75 days straight, and my hemeglobin was at a 6.9

-junel FE did not help my bleeding. but i also didnt take it on time

-nuvaring also made me bleed the entire time i was on it, plus caused yeast infections

-cannot have nexplanon because of how depoprovera affected me

-i am terrified of the IUD. my sister was born with it, stuck in her placenta. she's okay now

-i cant get sterilized yet.

this is my experience . i cant say it will affect you like this for sure but this is what happened to me. be safe and dont make babies you dont want !

[lesbiancosimaniehaus]

https://x.com/brbiehndrx/status/1748411588707586178?s=20

Stuff like this is so annoying bc it’s well known that birth control isn’t 100% effective, and that depoprovera has an effective rate in the high 90%. Like… you can’t even suggest celibacy bc god forbid, but people won’t even use their single brain cells to figure out that a condom in addition to other bc might be the closest to full protection.

[deadpool-scar-bro]

i supposed i had to talk about this bullshit sometime so i could leave it behind i guess so here i go

so im gonna talk about my experience being hospitalized.

april was hell for me. i started having my period which was like normal at first but then day by day the amount of blood that was coming out was just too much. i tried medication (depoprovera) to stop the bleeding and it worked for a while but the bleeding came back again and again. the bleeding continued for the whole month and then some.

when i went to see my ginecologist she did an ultrasound and discovered that the endometrium in my uterus was way too fucking thick. like 30 mm. and that was what was causing the bleeding.

she gave me some more medication and told me that if it didn't stop the bleeding i would have to go to the hospital for blood transfusions and whatnot. she recommended me another ginecologist who worked at a hospital who would take care of me and keep her posted while i stayed there.

i was hospitalized in april for 1 night and then i left the next day. the experience was miserable and horrible except for the fact that i met two older women who were in the same room as me and they were very kind and distracted me from everything by talking with me. the doctor gave me a medication that seemingly stopped the bleeding for that weekend.

and because i'm a fucking idiot i was like "oh i'm better now, i should go to work or smth 'cause i can't keep missing days! i'll get fired!"

needless to say, this was a really stupid decision. that same monday the bleeding came back with a vengeance and continued on through the week despite the fact that i kept taking the medication.

i still showed up for work because i really didn't want to keep missing days. i was truly miserable.

the next week was even worse. i couldn't move at all. i didn't go to work. i saw my doctor again and she gave me another medication that only made me bleed more because she knew that getting rid of the endometrium would stop it. but i was already too weak by that point.

she had me do bloodwork on the next day to see my hemogoblin levels and what my bloodtype was since i couldn't say for sure

that day was like... fucking surreal fr. in the morning i was so weak but i still tried my best to be kind to the nurse who took my blood samples in a lab near my house. they told me by the afternoon i would have my test results back and they would send them to me by e-mail.

i couldn't stand for long and i couldn't walk without feeling extreme pain but someone still had to feed the dogs and the cat, and i was home alone the whole day since my family was at work. when i went outside the light hurt my eyes and i had to wear sunglasses even inside the house 'cause looking at my phone screen was painful.

i was sitting in the dark for the majority of the day and it was still too bright for me.

i ordered food 'cause i couldn't cook for myself and then i tried my best to just survive the day. i already knew my hemogoblin levels were pretty dang low even without the test results, and i knew i would need a blood transfusion. tho i was still holding on to hope that i wouldn't have to get hospitalized again (although a little voice in my head told me that i couldn't be that stupid and that i knew it was inevitable)

but here's where it gets fucked up because the lab didn't give me the hemogoblin results, only the blood type test results. i waited the whole day to see if they would hand them over but they never did.

i was in critical condition and they didn't give me the information that i needed until it was already 8PM. and only because they called my mom to tell her that they were pretty low (i was at 4 g/dL).

i prepared a backpack with stuff that i remembered i didn't have the last time i was there. my dad drove me to the emergency room and i was hospitalized again

the last time i was there i was told if the bleeding wouldn't stop with medication i would have to get an uterine curettage, so that's what happened

i was given blood transfusions that first wednesday night and the next day. on friday i got woken up pretty early to get into surgery.

a friend of my dad that works at the hospital visited me while i waited for my surgery to start and he talked to me for a moment. and then i was taken into the operating room.

waiting for everything to start was nerve wracking. we were waiting on the anesthesiologist since he was assisting another two operations. the doctor approached me after some time and told me they had taken the decision to place an IUD after the curettage because it would help me in the long run to stop the bleeding. i signed the consent forms and then the anesthesiologist finally came.

they gave me spinal anesthesia and let me fucking tell you, it hurts like hell and its demons came to dance on your back. its fucking awful. it fucking hurts so bad. its agonizing pain and i was sobbing uncontrollably and the guy was like "stop shaking or you could get paralyzed" and i was like "i know that and i'm trying very hard not to move but it fUCKING HURTS"

after that was done i remember the guy hovering over me and being like "we're going to give you oxygen" and then

when i woke up i remember seeing another blood bag hanging over my left side and then getting the oxygen thing off. i coughed and then BOOM awake af !!! the nurses moved me to one of those beds with wheels and then i was taken into the recovery room

i knew that i had to wake up my legs so i could go back to my room. so i started doing the kill bill thing like "okay move your big toe" it fucking worked i was moving both feet and i was sitting up in no time (since they don't need to cut you open for this kind of surgery)

i was in some moderate pain but the bleeding had stopped and that was really all that mattered to me. after that i got food and my mom came to see me to bring me stuff. among the stuff was a booklet with letter soups and thats what kept me sane for the rest of the time i was there

i was free to go the next day. the doctor did a biopsy while i was in surgery and i'm still waiting on the results of that. the doctor said that with the amount of medication i had been given on the weeks leading up to the surgery it should have stopped and the bleeding shouldn't have been that extreme. so something wrong with me and they gonna find what

the doctor said that my body will need 2-3 months to adapt to the IUD. on those first months i'll still have periods but they'll be lighter. eventually after a while i'll stop having periods altogether, which hell yeah fucking finally

last blood test i had 10 g/dL hemogoblin, which is still not great, but it's better than fucking 4. i just have to keep eating stuff rich in iron, and take my iron suplemments and vitamins and i'll keep getting better.

idk what the future holds regarding this shit but i guess being that close to dying has really given me some perspective

like my daily stresses seem so miniscule to me now that after a while i'm like "ah whatever at least im not dying"

so thats something i guess

i'll forever be grateful to the people that donated blood for the blood bank in the hospital because thanks to them i lived to be annoying for another day. i'll forever be grateful to my friends and family that also donated blood for me.

and i'm glad that i didn't give up, and that i was too stubborn to die. ahorita no, parquita. luego nos vemos, flaca.

so yeah. i lived.

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[mcatmemoranda]

Depo-provera = medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA)

[coridallasmultipass]

Tmi / talk about menstruation and iud / venting / but i just wanna get this out, and maybe someone else is in the same boat as me because ive never been able to find any accounts of similar experiences ... I wanna preface this by saying im 26 and have rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia/chronic pain, which is probably related but i dont know how. I normally have super heavy periods and debilitating cramps, along with discomfort during penetration (or similar activities) on some occasions. Ive tried a couple different birth control options over the years and each one has given me constant cramping. Its weird because the cramping on the pill (2 or 3 different kinds of BC pills in different times of my life) and depoprovera shot were the same in that i would get terrible cramps whenever i did any kind of activity but especially when i stand up from a sitting position. I remember being in college and standing up and having to immediately sit back down hunched over until it passed. I got the depo shot a few months ago and it was the worst thing ever. I had severe cramping with all kinds of movement (and havent been able to even touch myself without setting off the cramps) and after a month of it i started bleeding for a month straight until a doctor gave me estrogen pills on top of it to stop the bleeding. The pills stopped the bleeding but not the cramps, so the plan was for me to wait it out and try an iud next since the medicine would be administered locally instead of by pill or shot through my whole body.... three months during the depo shot i could not exercise or do any physical activity, which of course is making my fibromyalgia and mood worse. I feel like ive lost a whole year to the depo shot, on top of other health problems that have been acting up before the depo. It sucked and im not trying it again. I had about 2 weeks until the mirena iud insertion where i was taking the estrogen pills and still cramping (along with getting a full heavy and bad cramping period during the vitamin-pill week while i waited for the prescription to come in. The cramping was so bad i almost wanted to go to the emergency room, but it lessened by the next day even if i was still going through so many pads.) Before the iud insertion i took a pill the night before which the doctor said could help loosen up my organ to allow for easier insertion since ive never had a kid. I knew i could expect a lot of pain given how sensitive i know i am, but the few people ive heard get them said it was only really painful during and they were fine after, so i figure i could be strong and deal with it if its going to help stop my monthly cramping and bleeding. Turns out the insertion was the worst pain ive ever felt in my life. Normally having a speculum put in already puts me in considerable pain (a speculum feels like a shard of glass shoved in me) but it pales in comparison to getting the iud. I was crying out and struggling to stay still during the proceedure but once it was over i hoped it would start to feel better. It burned with pain and still does days later. I didnt realise i would get severe cramping immediately after the insertion, but i could barely stand up. The doctors had to let me stay in the room for like a half hour before i could limp back to the car. Im lucky i had my mom to drive me home because i could still barely breathe it hurt so badly. I took tylenol about a half hour before the proceedure but i dont think it did anything. I couldnt take advil because of other medicines im taking. So the only other thing i could do is lay there screaming in pain with the heating pad pressed on me. A few hours later my mom had to call an on-call doctor from the same hospital and he said to go to the er so we went. The rest of the night is kind of blurry i was in so much pain and could barely think. The er gave me a painkiller and later a muscle relaxant before telling me i have to stop my other meds so i can take advil. I was there for like 6 hours i think, feeling waves of terrible cramps that feel like a knife is slicing the inside of me - the same feeling as the iud insertion. I feel bad for everyone who had to hear me screaming every 10 minutes and my mom who had to stay with me. The doctors kicked me out immediately after giving me advil and i went home barely able to even walk or move. It took me another 2 hours to manage to fall asleep even though i was so exhausted and had the worst chest and body pain from being so tense at experiencing the worst pain of my life. Nornally, if unmedicated, ill get periods so bad im screaming in pain, but it will only last 1-2 hours until the advil or tylenol kicks in and dulls it down to a bearable ache, so this iud was supposed to be my fall back on options to eliminate cramps. (I really wish the doctor would just let me get a hysterectomy i dont ever want kids and this whole situation is giving me severe gender dysphoria) Yesterday i spent the whole day sleeping off my traumatic er experience and today im still getting really horrible waves of cramping and nausea. Thankfully im not bleeding (...yet?) But it still feels like having a tampon being yanked out of me that wont come out. The knife feeling isnt there so im not screaming, but the cramps are still so bad and i dont know if i need to take it out. The er doctor said to take it out if the advil doesnt help, and that this is most likely anxiety making the pain get out of control. The er nurse said this is normal. Like??? How the fuck to people deal with this im scared about taking it out because thats probably going to hurt even more. I forgot to ask my prescribing doctor if theres a risk for toxic shock or something but like i dont have a fever its just so painful feeling it there. The placement is "right" according to the ultrasounds but it hurts so much and is still giving me cramps I really dont know how anyone could deal with this the whole thing is so upsetting i want it out but i dont want to deal with the proceedure to get it out and that same severe cramping i dont think theyll allow it to be a surgical removal but i wont be able to sit there and deal with it again!!!! Just thinking about all of it is giving me more anxiety too, i have such dysphoria about my internal organs and such a terrible phobia about even having them!!! This amount of cramping should not fucking be "normal" i hate being invalidated at the er like that God i just dont know what to do the cramping is so bad and im still scared of getting an ulcer from the advil. Thats another thing. A year ago i got an ulcer from taking advil because of period cramps, so ive been suffering taking tylenol! Thats why i want a BC that works to get rid of cramps and bleeding!! Now here i am with the worst cramps and bloating of my life!! How am i expected to function like this!!! I dont remember half of the past few days because ive been in so much pain!!! I can only hope this gets better because it feels worse today than it did yesterday, even if its not as bad as the day before when i had the insertion done. The doctor said if im still having the same kind of cramps ive been getting with the other types of birth control after a month i can look into other options (hopefully hysterectomy!!) But thats so far away and i havent been able to practise driving or apply to any jobs because i cant fucking do more than sit or lie down because of the god damn cramps Ive lost like all my personality and enjoyment of life and lost any one i could call a friend because this is consuming me and i cant fucking do anything i hate it i just want something to go right for once i want to be able to exercise again i love exercising and i havent been able to go for a walk without getting winded and severe cramping I cant even find other people that get cramping on birth control when standing up or doing activities so i dont know why this is happening to me ive looked everywhere i can and all i get is dysphoria because """"mensutruation is a womens health problem"""" and my phobia of pregnancy makes it impossible to browse forums I dont know what my point to all this is i just really need to vent because i feel so alone with this specific problem Life sucks and then you die i guess lmao

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[wolfxofxwars]

Depo Provera

Guys, I need to tell you about this shot.

This shot has all but ruined my life again.

Side effects may include:

Incidence not known

Abdominal or stomach pain

absent, missed, or irregular menstrual periods

anxiety

blurred vision

breast pain or tenderness

changes in skin color

chills

clay-colored stools

cough

dark urine

decrease in amount of urine

diarrhea

difficulty swallowing

dizziness or lightheadedness

eye pain

fainting

fast heartbeat

fever

headache

hives or welts, itching, redness, swelling, or skin rash

large, hive-like swelling on the face, eyelids, lips, tongue, throat, hands, legs, feet, or sex organs

loss of appetite

menstrual changes

nausea

noisy, rattling breathing

pain in the chest, groin, or legs, especially the calves

pain, tenderness, or swelling of the foot or leg

puffiness or swelling of the eyelids or around the eyes, face, lips, or tongue

severe, sudden headache

shortness of breath

slurred speech

stopping of menstrual bleeding

sudden loss of coordination

sudden, severe weakness or numbness in the arm or leg

sudden, unexplained shortness of breath

swelling of the fingers, hands, feet, or lower legs

troubled breathing at rest

unexpected or excess milk flow from the breasts

unpleasant breath odor

unusual tiredness or weakness

vaginal bleeding or spotting

vision changes

vomiting of blood

weight gain

yellow eyes or skin

Blemishes on the skin

discouragement

feeling sad or empty

hair loss, thinning of hair

increased hair growth, especially on the face

irritability

lack of appetite

loss of interest or pleasure

nervousness

pimples

sleepiness or unusual drowsiness

tiredness

trouble concentrating

trouble sleeping

weight changes

Thats a fuck load of things that could go wrong, yeah? So many people get it, chances of them effecting me are slim so I went ahead and got it. It started out with irregular bleeding, which was whatever. I expected as much. Then suddenly I got angry all the time over stupid shit. Which isn’t like me anymore. Then I relapsed. For the first time in almost a full year, and I thought I was doing so good, and my reason for relapse was so little compared to other things I’ve been through over the time without relapse.

Then I got depressed and angry towards the end of the three months. My depression got so bad guys. I don’t even know how to fully put it into words. It is like it was before when I was in and out of the hospital. I’ve relapsed twice, and I swallowed pills again just for an escape. I’m falling apart at the seams over stupid shit.

I’m posting this to just send out a cautious tale of others thinking about it. It sucks. I hate it and it makes me hate me again.

[serenity-sweet13]

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[birthcontrol4women-blog]

Birth Control Shot

Depo-Provera is a birth control injection that you get every three months. It is administered by your doctor or a nurse. The shot contains progestin, which prevents ovulation and protects you from becoming pregnant. When used perfectly, the shot is 99% effective. However, it does not prevent STIs. To read more about Depo-Provera you can visit:

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/birth-control/birth-control-shot

https://www.bedsider.org/methods/the_shot

[chronicallypos-blog]

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[mermaidgirl1990]

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[transitjournal]

MtF HRT Hierarchy

This one covers MtF HRT only, FtM HRT deserves it's own blog. Here's a quick information handwritten by me. From now, I'll use those abbrevations;

CPA = Cyproterone Acetate

E2 = Estradiol

P4 = Progesterone

T = Testosterone

AA = Antiandrogen

E2

Common brand names; Estrofem, Progynova, Cyclo-Progynova, Delestrogen, Estradot

First things' first, Estrogen is very important thing, and without it feminization is almost impossible. There are four types of estrogens, Estrone, Estradiol, Estriol, Estetrol. Estradiol is the most potent one and found in higher levels in women of reproductive age. We have to take estradiol. Estrone usually is found higher levels in post-menopausal women, and it only provides very very little (almost nonexistent) feminization. When you take estradiol orally, some of it is converted to estrone by your liver. So it's important to check your estradiol-to-estrone ratio with your endo to get sufficient feminization. If you are taking E2 injections or sublingually, it's probably E2 Valerate, which is less potent than E2 Hemihydrate (but it's good, since you're probably taking higher doses of it and it skips liver in those administrations). E2 Hemihydrate is recommended for oral administration since it's more potent, and bioavailability is reduced since it's being processed by liver. So it's important to get more potent form of E2 if you take it orally. E2 Cypionate is very similar to E2 Valerate, and it's usually found in intramuscular/subcutaneous injections. If E2 Valerate injections in your local pharmacy are out of stock, you can get E2 Cypionate they basically do the same thing.

AA

Common brand names; Aldactone, Androcur, Proscar, Propecia, Casodex

An antiandrogen may seem like eye candy, but it's important for us girls to suppress our gonadal function. So that way, we can use less dose of E2 to get sufficient feminization. An antiandrogen, depending on what type of AA it is, usually suppresses your gonadal production of Testosterone and Dihydrotestosterone and prevents your androgen receptors from absorbing them. Every kind of it does it different though. CPA is known for both reducing T production and nuking androgen receptor function, can also be used in very low doses to have effect. Due to stupid regulations of FDA, this drug is not available in the United States, leaving trans folks there with only three other options; Spironolactone, Bicalutamide and Finasteride. Finasteride, as much as I know, only blocks the potent form of T called DHT (Dihydrotestosterone) which is only acts on skin, hair follicles, prostate gland and testicles. It does not stop or block the effects of testosterone, so it's not really what we actually want. Bica and Spiro, unfortunately does not reduce T levels, but they block androgen receptors so the T and DHT in your body is moving freely, without binding to receptors and I think it's better than nothing. Those ones is the most with side effects, so it's important to read what others experiencing, share with others and talk to your endo about it. Also, most AAs are known to cause vitamin B12 deficiency, and B12 deficiency is a serious thing. I suggest you to get your vitamin B12 levels checked if you are using AAs for longer period of time. I am not including GnRH antagonists, since technically they're not antiandrogens and I don't know much about them yet. You can get more information on r/asktransgender about GnRH antagonists if you'd like.

P4

Common brand names; DepoProvera, Depo-SubQ Provera 104, MPA, and Provera

This is the most controversial one, even in our community. Some say P4 does wonders for their breast growth, mental mood and even their sleep patterns. Some say it fixed their "cone" shaped breasts. Some say it didn't do nothing for their transition. The thing is, Progesterone is almost not present in adolescent cis girls, and it's function in trans women is very understudied. Progesterone is at peak levels at cis women aged 20-24. Personally, I think taking progesterone before your first 2-4 years of HRT is unnecessary, give your body time to adjust then you can add P4 to the mix (If you want). Since it's our second puberty, following the natural pattern of cis female puberty is more ideal for me. I think more funding is required for trans studies to see P4 effects on us girls. Feel free to share your thought about this!

T

This one is very rarely used in with us trans women. It is usually prescribed by request of patient, and 99.99% of time it's prescribed after surgical removal of gonads (Genital reconstruction surgery/vaginoplasty or orchiectomy). The target is to reach cis female range of testosterone and retrieve some of libido, and mood changes like self-confidence. The effects of T in females is similar to effects in males, but some doctors don't agree with the fact T has to do with libido in females. If you're one of gals using it, feel free to share with me about your experience.

[wern]

when i got my depoprovera shot they warned me "sometimes this doesn't stop people's periods, it just spreads out the bleeding to last 4 months" and i said "ha! it literally can't get any more spread out than it already is" which in retrospect was like calling the devil and daring him to do his worst