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I received one shot of Depo Provera and it's been 6 years since that shot. Is the Depo Privera shot related in anyway to PCOS? I only get maybe 2 periods a year. I am getting alot of facial hair, hard time losing weight, tired, depressed, and very moody. Is this and area of concern?
One shot really should affect you this much. I know the MAIN side effect of the depo shot is weight gain. But honey, I'm here to tell you having a hard time losing weight is everyone's battle. It's not an easy thing to do. It's called working out for a reason. It's hard work.
I don't think one shot of Depo 6 years ago would throw you into polycystic. When did you start showing symptoms? Recently or when you received that first shot?
One Depo-Provera shot 6 years prior is the not the cause of the current weight gain, facial hair, moodiness she is experiencing. So discussing the medication as the cause is inaccurate. Her PCOS is the cause of her symptoms.
QUOTE[It's not an easy thing to do. It's called working out for a reason.]
I thought this was rude and insensitive to the poster. PCOS patients have problems with weight gain because it is a disorder, not because they don't work hard.
There is not just one main side effect of Depo-Provera, and also symptoms differ from woman to women:
In the largest clinical trial with DEPO-PROVERA CI, over 3,900 women, who were treated for up to 7 years, reported the following adverse reactions, which may or may not be related to the use of DEPO-PROVERA CI.
The following adverse reactions were reported by more than 5% of subjects: Menstrual irregularities (bleeding or amenorrhea, or both)
Abdominal pain or discomfort
Weight changes
Dizziness Headache
Asthenia (weakness or fatigue)
Nervousness
Adverse reactions reported by 1% to 5% of subjects using DEPO-PROVERA Contraceptive Injection were:
Decreased libido or anorgasmia
Pelvic pain
Backache
Breast pain
Leg cramps
No hair growth or alopecia
Depression
Bloating
Nausea
Rash
Insomnia
Edema
Leukorrhea
Hot flashes
Acne
Arthralgia
Vaginitis
Yep facial hair combined with the other symptoms usually is a hormonal imbalance.
The trick is finding the problem insulin resistance is one of seven things that will cause hormonal imbalance.
This is just a small part of what one of them is like PCOS Messages for May, 2000: Re: SOUND advice to hair loss, facial hair and fatigue problem
insulin resistance, and yes, he does mention this topic: "But the hormones themselves are just part of the picture. It takes very specific combinations of vitamins, minerals and enzymes to cause the transformation of one hormone into another and then help the cell carry out the hormone's message. If you are deficient in one of the important hormone-transforming substances such as vitamin B6 or magnesium, that too can throw your hormones out of balance. Thyroid and insulin problems, toxins, bad food and environmental factors, medication and liver function affect nutrient and hormone balance." He talks about the fact that sugar affects hormones too. Hormonal imbalance can cause the cravings for carbs and sugar which causes weight gain which affects insulin, etc. everything affects everything. He mentioned too that hormonal imbalance can cause all kinds of symptoms, like hypothyroid, The thing I didn't understand for myself was if I have low testosterone, then why do I have facial hair? Here's an excerpt that is especially interesting to PCOS: From his premenopause book, pg. 344-345: "Testosterone decreases with age...as the ovaries wind down, women show signs of becoming more androgen (male hormone) dominant rather than estrogen dominant, and testosterone will only exaggerate that process. Facial hair and male-type pattern baldness are indicative of this shift...this can happen in premenopausal, estrogen-dominant women as well, because testosterone clearance from the body is partly controlled by the balance between estrogen and progesterone. Excess estrogen decreases testosterone clearance and natural progesterone enhances it. In estrogen-dominant women, testosterone hangs around in the body for a longer time, and the end result is as though more testosterone were being made. This is why progesterone cream tends to reverse the androgenic changes mentioned above." Here's something related to weight gain and hair loss. Even though it talks about men, I think it must apply to women, too: "As men age, progesterone levels fall, testosterone becomes converted to dihydrotestosterone (DHT), and estradiol levels rise. The effect of this is weight gain, some breast enlargement an enlarged prostate gland, etc..THE CONVERSION OF TESTOSTERONE TO DHT IS PROMOTED BY THE ENZYME 5 REDUCTASE (My note: I have read this enzyme causes the hair loss). "The action of this enzyme is inhibited by progesterone. Inhibits conversion to DHT..." Oh yeah, one thing I just learned too is that some natural progesterone creams have DHEA in them, so be sure to pick one that doesn't if the facial hair is a problem. Here's some of the symptoms of estrogen dominance he mentions: Allergies, headaches, autoimmune disorders, breast cancer, cold hands and feet, depression, dry eyes, endometrial cancer, fat gain, especially around the abdomen, hips and thighs, fatigue, foggy thinking, chronic fatigue, hair loss, gallbladder disease, hypoglycemia, irritability, insomnia, magnesium deficiency, osteoporosis, polycystic ovaries and fibroids, water retention, zinc deficiency, pms, mood swings, etc
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