Implanon removal and weight loss

daniwhittaker

Hey all! Found this thread and thought I’d briefly share my experience with Implanon and weight gain/loss, as my story isn’t one I’ve come across on the web as yet.

I had the implanon inserted in May 2018; after this period of time I was not sexually active for 6 months. I noticed I actually lost weight to begin with, around 10-15kgs, which was strange as I was expecting some weight gain through what I had researched prior to insertion. My eating and exercising habits had not changed at all.

Just as a sideline, the only real side effects I experienced for those first 6 months was extremely irregular periods/spotting etc. which sucked majorly as I was always a regular as clock work, right on time every month 3 day affair of not to heavy and not light bleeding.

Well. After a 6 month dry spell and 6 months of having my old mate Rod in my arm, I found myself my current, amazing partner and started having regular relations (apologies for the TMI but it’s important to note) and THAT is when things got weird; I all of a sudden experienced many of the common listed side effects. Some included (but were not limited to) bloating, weight gain, irritability, tired and sluggish feeling, EXTREMELY tender and sensitive breasts that seemingly tripled in size- I actually took a pregnancy test at one stage because I thought I might have been one of the 1 in 10,000 lucky winners of falling preggo whilst on Implanon!

After 4 months of this b.s- I was already fed up with the irregular bleeding and spotting- I decided to have the rod removed and that took place Monday evening, so two days ago. I got my periods on the Monday morning but let me tell you, Tuesday morning after the removal, I had never felt more like my old self- It was crazy because I had my periods and should not have felt that great lol.

I’m still tracking and monitoring myself and it’s only been 2 days so far but I feel incredibly optimistic that this was by far the best decision I’ve made in terms of the removal.

I found it incredibly strange that I didn’t have any of the crazy symptoms except the irregularities with my periods for the first 6 months and I wonder if there is any correlation between the lack of sex for 6 months vs sex almost every single day for 5 months.

I hope sharing this helps people in some way!

SezxyStef

daniwhittaker wrote: »

Hey all! Found this thread and thought I’d briefly share my experience with Implanon and weight gain/loss, as my story isn’t one I’ve come across on the web as yet.

I had the implanon inserted in May 2018; after this period of time I was not sexually active for 6 months. I noticed I actually lost weight to begin with, around 10-15kgs, which was strange as I was expecting some weight gain through what I had researched prior to insertion. My eating and exercising habits had not changed at all.

Just as a sideline, the only real side effects I experienced for those first 6 months was extremely irregular periods/spotting etc. which sucked majorly as I was always a regular as clock work, right on time every month 3 day affair of not to heavy and not light bleeding.

Well. After a 6 month dry spell and 6 months of having my old mate Rod in my arm, I found myself my current, amazing partner and started having regular relations (apologies for the TMI but it’s important to note) and THAT is when things got weird; I all of a sudden experienced many of the common listed side effects. Some included (but were not limited to) bloating, weight gain, irritability, tired and sluggish feeling, EXTREMELY tender and sensitive breasts that seemingly tripled in size- I actually took a pregnancy test at one stage because I thought I might have been one of the 1 in 10,000 lucky winners of falling preggo whilst on Implanon!

After 4 months of this b.s- I was already fed up with the irregular bleeding and spotting- I decided to have the rod removed and that took place Monday evening, so two days ago. I got my periods on the Monday morning but let me tell you, Tuesday morning after the removal, I had never felt more like my old self- It was crazy because I had my periods and should not have felt that great lol.

I’m still tracking and monitoring myself and it’s only been 2 days so far but I feel incredibly optimistic that this was by far the best decision I’ve made in terms of the removal.

I found it incredibly strange that I didn’t have any of the crazy symptoms except the irregularities with my periods for the first 6 months and I wonder if there is any correlation between the lack of sex for 6 months vs sex almost every single day for 5 months.

I hope sharing this helps people in some way!

The fact you claim you got your regular period within days of getting the implant removed is highly suspect and the fact you have 1 post on this community another doubtful event...and first visit was March 12....