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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 346199" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>A friend of mine uses Depo, has done for years. She got her daughter onto implants.</p><p></p><p>One thing about the implant - it's supposed to be put in so deep (in the arm) that you generally wouldn't feel where it is, but my friend's daughter lost a lot of weight and was abel to show me the implant under the skin.</p><p></p><p>Running with a boy isn't the same as wanting to get pregnant. Is she simply promiscuous and anting sex for its own sake, or is she having sex in order to get pregnant? If she's only after sex, then an IUD would also be an option, if she can tolerate it. And if the doctors will put one in. </p><p></p><p>Otherwise - there shouldn't be a problem with Depo - all you're doing is putting in your body pretty much the same hormones your body would be experiencing, if you were pregnant. If you think about it, it's only in the last 50 years that we stopped having big families. In the past women had fewer periods over their lifetime, as they had more pregnancies plus breastfed for longer. In years past, at 15 she could already have had a couple of kids. So hormonally, Depo is doing the same thing. When we take the Pill, we stop every month for a week, in order for our body's hormones to change back to 'non-pregnant' and have a period, all designed to help us know for sure that we're not pregnant. If we choose to, we can skip the sugar pills in a monthly pack and also skip the period.</p><p></p><p>Long-term hormonal control is probably (ironically) the most natural way to handle this.</p><p></p><p>You can't dig out a Depo shot.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 346199, member: 1991"] A friend of mine uses Depo, has done for years. She got her daughter onto implants. One thing about the implant - it's supposed to be put in so deep (in the arm) that you generally wouldn't feel where it is, but my friend's daughter lost a lot of weight and was abel to show me the implant under the skin. Running with a boy isn't the same as wanting to get pregnant. Is she simply promiscuous and anting sex for its own sake, or is she having sex in order to get pregnant? If she's only after sex, then an IUD would also be an option, if she can tolerate it. And if the doctors will put one in. Otherwise - there shouldn't be a problem with Depo - all you're doing is putting in your body pretty much the same hormones your body would be experiencing, if you were pregnant. If you think about it, it's only in the last 50 years that we stopped having big families. In the past women had fewer periods over their lifetime, as they had more pregnancies plus breastfed for longer. In years past, at 15 she could already have had a couple of kids. So hormonally, Depo is doing the same thing. When we take the Pill, we stop every month for a week, in order for our body's hormones to change back to 'non-pregnant' and have a period, all designed to help us know for sure that we're not pregnant. If we choose to, we can skip the sugar pills in a monthly pack and also skip the period. Long-term hormonal control is probably (ironically) the most natural way to handle this. You can't dig out a Depo shot. Marg [/QUOTE]
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