This post aims to briefly explain how Depo Provera works to prevent pregnancy, its common side effects and, most importantly, why and what to do about adverse experiences when stopping it.
Hormone Imbalance – The Silent Epidemic – Women Speak Out
September 6, 2012 by 6 Comments
This is an insidious ‘War on Women’. On the one hand we have had to fight for our reproductive rights and the availability of birth control – on the other hand it is the same birth control that is slowly killing us.
World Population Day – A Gatesway to Coercive Contraception and Forced Sterilization?
July 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment
On July 11, World Population Day, the British government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are hosting an international Family Planning Summit in London to launch an ambitious $4 billion contraceptive program initiated by Melinda Gates. On the surface it all sounds good, wrapped in the language of saving and empowering women. But many reproductive health and human rights activists worry that the summit represents a serious backslide to the bad old days of population control when contraception was deployed as a technical fix to reduce birthrates.
Disturbing New Trend: Putting Teens on Synthetic Hormone Drips to Prevent Pregnancy
June 4, 2012 by 5 Comments
Holy Hormones Honey! Are we risking our daughter’s fertility by putting them on Implanon – a synthetic hormonal drip placed in a woman’s arm for 3 years? The trend in birth control is moving in this direction. More effective – yet a potentially dangerous synthetic birth control with unknown long-term results. Birth control is the largest uncontrolled medical experiment in history.
Under this news story is a blog post by a young woman who had to have the stick taken out and replaced. Read her ordeal. Her muscles actually grew around the Implanon stick – virtually making the device a part of her arm.
Diabetes Risk Increases with Depo-Provera Use for Obese Women
April 21, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Depo Provera Withdrawal – A Woman’s Worst Nightmare
April 15, 2012 by 179 Comments
Need proof that women are sometimes desperate for information and support when it comes to quitting hormonal contraception? You need look no further than the 100 plus comments in reply to an old blog posting at Our Bodies Ourselves: Questions About Side Effects of Stopping Contraceptive Injections. The comment stream – a litany of woes concerning women’s discontinuation of Depo-Provera – has been active since Nov. 2, 2009.
UK Government Pushing Contraceptive Jabs and Implants on Teens
February 7, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Ministers have ordered council and health chief executives to increase the uptake of “long-acting” contraception in teen pregnancy “hot spots.” The government also wants more school-based clinics to administer the jabs, which can make girls infertile for up to three months.
13 Yr. Old Girls Get Contraceptive Implants at School
February 7, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Girls as young as 13 have been fitted with contraceptive implants at school without their parents knowing
and has caused a backlash from parents who weren’t aware that their daughters had been fitted with the 4cm device, which sits under the skin.
It is currently unknown exactly how many youngsters have taken part in the scheme.
