Depo Provera And Bip

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I have read every single one of the stories that have been posted on the site until this date. Some of them have made me cry and I have nightmares about others. Some I have just thought, well there is no hope there. I still have hope, hope that my story will prevent some other young woman experiencing the same fate that have at the hands of a misinformed medical physician.

I was 17 years old when an MD administered the shot to me at the request of my mother? They never thought for two seconds about the long-term consequences. I just did what was advised, I was young and vulnerable. My periods stopped immediately, I didn’t see them again for a long time. I just carried on, I am a hard worker and I managed to work nearly full time and get a bachelor of commerce at the same time. I ignored the mood swings, the illness, the pain in my abdomen, the recurrent yeast infections, I wondered about my hair falling our but just passed it off as a bad reaction to a detergent, but when I started passing out in the middle of the day I went back to the physician. He did all of the usual tests on me and found nothing wrong, when it came to be time for my next prescription he would not I give it to me. I wondered, but did not say anything, it was 3 years later and enough was enough. I looked forward to getting my period back and feeling like a real woman again.

A year later I still had not menstruated. I still got angry for no reason at all and was incredibly withdrawn into myself. I went back to the physician and asked where are my periods!!! I was put on a regular contraceptive pill. They came back; I used to nearly have a party every time I got a period after that because I was so overjoyed that I was not rendered barren at such a young age. It is so terrifying to be stripped of the use of a major bodily function. I was never informed of any side effects to this drug, I was even told that I would not put on any weight.

I stayed on the pill for two years until one day my sister said to me “ Mary you are not in a relationship, why are you still taking the pill?” So I gave them up cold turkey, nobody advised me that I could not do that. It was so dangerous, doctors advise women who are on HRT that they cannot just quit they have to be weaned off the hormones. This is because hormones are anabolic steroids and therefore dependency forming; the body becomes accustomed to and relies on a steady supply of them. I later learned that stopping the progesterin was like stopping lithium or valporic acid suddenly and that I was lucky that I just became bipolar and not schizophrenic.

I am 27 now and have real difficulties sustaining relationships even though I am beautiful and intelligent. This hideous poison should never have made it out of the lab, the proof of that comment is in the history of Depo provera it took 30 years to get it approved in the first place, what were they seeing in those lab tests, some of what we are seeing on this web site, I should think. They stopped prescribing medroxyprogesterone acetate (depo provera) to dogs in 1973 because of the growth of tumours in the mammary in the dogs; no amount of money can explain how they prescribed it to me in 1998. I am only 27 and worried will I have children and if by some great stroke of fate that I do have them will I be around to watch them grow up or will the carcinogenic cells have got me.

The World Health Organisation has as of 29 June 2005 declared all hormonal contraceptives and hormonal replacement therapies Group 1 carcinogens. Please do not administer these drugs even to those you dislike. The Birth of New Life is never a bad thing even though it may be a difficult thing. Unlike the contraceptive drug where there is no new life only poison to our most valuable natural gift, our power to reproduce a likeness of ourselves.
Below is the evidence of the carcinogenic effects of these drugs:
What are the IARC Monographs?
The IARC Monographs critically review and evaluate the published scientific evidence on human carcinogenic hazards. These include chemicals, complex mixtures, occupational exposures, lifestyle factors, and physical and biological agents. International, interdisciplinary working groups of expert scientists prepare the critical reviews and consensus evaluations. Nearly 400 potentially carcinogenic agents and exposures have been identified in the 91 volumes and approximately 900 evaluations developed since 1971. National and international health agencies use the IARC Monographs as a source of scientific information and as the scientific basis for their efforts to prevent cancer.

Definitions
· Group 1: The agent (mixture) is carcinogenic to humans.
The exposure circumstance entails exposures that are carcinogenic to humans.
This category is used when there is sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in humans. Exceptionally, an agent (mixture) may be placed in this category when evidence of carcinogenicity in humans is less than sufficient but there is sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals and strong evidence in exposed humans that the agent (mixture) acts through a relevant mechanism of carcinogenicity.
What are the IARC Monographs?
The IARC Monographs critically review and evaluate the published scientific evidence on human carcinogenic hazards. These include chemicals, complex mixtures, occupational exposures, lifestyle factors, and physical and biological agents. International, interdisciplinary working groups of expert scientists prepare the critical reviews and consensus evaluations. Nearly 400 potentially carcinogenic agents and exposures have been identified in the 91 volumes and approximately 900 evaluations developed since 1971. National and international health agencies use the IARC Monographs as a source of scientific information and as the scientific basis for their efforts to prevent cancer.

Definitions
· Group 1: The agent (mixture) is carcinogenic to humans.
The exposure circumstance entails exposures that are carcinogenic to humans.
This category is used when there is sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in humans. Exceptionally, an agent (mixture) may be placed in this category when evidence of carcinogenicity in humans is less than sufficient but there is sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals and strong evidence in exposed humans that the agent (mixture) acts through a relevant mechanism of carcinogenicity.

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