What's Your Personal Experience w/ Starting Birth Control?

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  • ForeverSunshine23
    ForeverSunshine23 Posts: 21
    I've been on the Depo shot for 8 months and honestly I haven't had any trouble maintaining my weight or losing weight. Before that I was on the pill for a year and never had any weight issues then either. I think the weight gain depends on how active you are
  • FireOpalCO
    FireOpalCO Posts: 641 Member
    I considered trying the Mirena, but I would have had to pay out of pocket (we have a high deductible), and it was $1200. I was set to do it anyway, because my sister raves about it, but when I read that some people have weight gain issues with it, I got scared and backed out. I didn't want to pay the $1200 and then decide to have it removed. Honestly, if a medication or some kind of implant caused me to gain weight (which hasn't happened to me before), I know myself, and I'd freak out and want to stop using it....

    Check and see if that is still true. Thanks to the changes in the Affordable Care Act, mine was 100% covered by the insurance company.

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