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**PaleIsBeautiful** · 11-27-2006, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Wildangel

I know alot of the weight i've gained in the last few years is due to depo provera birth control and prednisone. I was told by one doctor that I should weight about 90 lbs for my height. I thought he was crazy. I figure my goal weight is about 115 or so. So I have about 90 lbs left to go. I've lost about 30 so far. I need to get on a good regimine. Get good sleep. Drink enough water. And get plenty of exercise. over eating isn't a big deal, I take in about 1200 calories or less a day. My metabolisim is slow, that's a big problem. Anyhow.

If you're on the Depo shot, you're going to have issues with weight loss. After I gave birth I was on it for a year. Not only did I keep the pregnancy weight, I also tacked on some unsightly pounds. Not to mention the other side effects. That shot did horrible things to my temper, I remember a week after the injection appoint (after I decided to quit) my whole mood changed and I was a happier easygoing person. Not knowing your circumstances, if there are other options available to you it may be in your best interests to look into them.

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Originally Posted by SangReal

The birth control shot (Depo Provera) is NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT less likely to cause weight gain than the birth control pill. The birth control shot is ALL synthetic progesterone, the hormone responsible for PMS. So you get all kinds of crazy PMS symptoms (including extreme hunger and weight gain), as well as the fun added benefit of bone density loss. I did the birth control shot for about a year, and in that year, I gained 50 pounds. That was also the year I got hypothyroidism, which I know caused SOME of the weight gain, but not all of it. Depo also makes your hair fall out and your sex drive disappear (it's what they give to sex offenders to "chemically castrate"

them).

This was important enough to emphasize with minimod red IMO, so call it an abuse of power or whatever.