Depo-Provera injection and high blood pressure

I went on thsi injection due to my terrible experience with rigevidon, at first everything was fine as my skin cleared up, i only get the odd spot which is supported by acne medication- which was great considering i am acne prone. However it was beginning clear that i was gaining weight, I started off as a size 8 (very slim and petite) to currently being a size 14, leading to a size 16. My hips have also widened, this has led to an increase of SO many stretch marks, it has had an affect on my confidence due to this durastic change, while having the same diet the whole time. Yet this may be because i began at 16 now 18, coming into adulthood maybe?? At the minute my moods are terrible, i am very irritable, riddled with anxiety and more sensitive; so if youre looking into this as someone who has suffers with mental health I would not recommend. The pain of the injection is not bad however I am attempting to come off of this contracpetive as soon as possible yet just struggling which pill to choose due to my fear of weight gain, poor skin and loosing my sex drive. Just remember eveyones experience is different this is just mine :)

I kept using the injection as it felt like my last resort as I'd tried other pills and had side effects I didn't like. However, I had awful vaginally dryness and I think my sex drive was lowered because of it. It did mean I did not have a period which I thought was a positive.

Was on this method for a few years. The first 6 weeks I bled non stop and had to get medication from the drs to stop the bleeding where I was told by my male doctor “it’s tough being a woman” . Once the bleeding had stopped my first few months were great. After a while I noticed my mood changes and became severely depressed where I was put on sertraline and propanalol. I had been with my partner for 6 years at this point and we didn’t have sex for 6 months as my sex drive completely decreased. I gained 3 stone in the time period of about 2 years, I was waking up in the night absolutely starving and could never curb the hunger. I was constantly sweating where I ended up seeing a dermatologist. I had constant brain fog and felt like an alien in my own body. My bones and joints ached and when I went for a check up I was told I had been on the injection for too long without a break. I went to th Drs to see what else was available to me and I was told that my body at 22 years old had basically gon into an early menopause due to the infection as that’s what It doee. I was never told this at the time, and was just under the impression that it would stop my painful periods. My dr was reluctant to let me come off the injection because of my age and I was in a long term relationship. It took a long time for my body to regulate after stopping the injection. Once my body had regulated itself about 1.5 ~ 2 years after stopping, my weight gain decreased and I felt normal again. I am now 27 and have never gone back on any kind of contraception because of how awful this one made me feel.