period while on the depo shot! HELP!?!


Question: Period while on the depo shot! HELP!?
My period was a week and a half late. I had unprotected sex March 10th but I took the morning after pill and I got the depo shot the same day on March 11th. I got my period on April 1st. It started out as spotting and then it got really bad. I had HORRIBLE cramps! I think the worst cramps I have ever had! I also had blood clots which I have never had before. I'm 18 and I have been getting my period since I was 13. My period lasted until the 6th and then it stopped completely but the last few days I have had bright red spotting. I've been using light tampons for the spotting but is this normal? The doctor said I would have spotting before my period but not a week after! What should I do?

Answers:

Dont worry. Abnormal bleeding on the depo shot even the heavy, clot bleeding is normal. It probably messed up your hormones with the depo and the morning after pill and caused all of this. You may stop and not bleed at all anymore or you may spot another week or 2. Nobody knows. If the bleeding becomes heavy where it is running down your legs or you soak a pad in an hour or you have really Large clots3-4 inches wide or more or many small ones. Or if you become very weak, short of breath--any of that and the bleeding is too heavy and you need to go to the Emergency Room. But I do think you are over the worst of it. Hope this helps and hope you get to feeling better.

am RN and worked several yrs in Womens Health Teen Clinic.



mahn u r 18 nd u had unprotected sex.
what the hell is this..?




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