Since I had posted about this issue before, I thought I would share with you some information I have just received from the nurse practitioner who did my yearly pap and switched my birth control.
She told me that she is not surprised that I have had problems with weight gain and losing weight. She said that the studies done by the manufacturers of the shot have concluded that women who are overweight when they start depo experience significant problems with weight gain and have issues with losing weight. She told me that I'm not crazy, that switching to a low-dose pill should help my weight loss endeavor and that I should likely see significant results within a year.
Of course I must continue exercising and eating right, but getting off depo will help those things to actually work better. She also said that I am absolutely doing the right thing by switching to a pill and that she wished someone would have let me know that sooner.
I was so relieved, that made my day. Anything I can do to improve my efforts will be a big help.
Depo Provera and overweight women
