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Hi guys,

hubby and i have decided to try and get pregnant.... i've been taking depo for 13 years and have been off of it for over three months The last two months i have had some kind of period, although certainly not my pre-depo normal. the first was two days of spotting, the second was one day of usual first day flow, followed by two days of spotting. My first son was conceived when i was 16 and on the pill. Hubby and i did get pregnant about 11 years ago after missing my shot by a week, but i miscarried at five weeks. I guess i'm impatient, but has anyone been in this situation? How long did it take? Am I being ridiculous in thinking this should happen sooner than later? btw...i am 31 and hubby will be 40 this year.

Thanks for any info or help at all.

I don't know how long it will take - but I wanted to wish you good luck! Your ages are the same as me and my hubby when he had our first last year :) The waiting game is tough - feel free to vent on the conceiving thread if you need to!

I was on Norplant then Depo for 14 years and everything I read said 6 months to 2 years. Well, it was exactly 6 months even though I'd only had 2 periods that were a day long! I've had some crazy side effects from getting off Depo, too (using the copper no-hormone IUD now) like losing 50 (!) pounds, memory improvement, increased sex drive... who knows what your experience will be, but I wish I had known how adversely that stuff was affecting my health. Best of luck!!!

I was on birth control pills from 16 to 31. I got pregnant two weeks after I stopped taking them. I think that it's impossible to tell how long it will take. My Dr. had told me to expect about 6 months before I would get pregnant.

Thanks for the info and support guys! Strange that you should mention memory improvement after getting off depo.... my memory is awful, I could really use some of those "side effects" you mentioned BigEnchiladas.... lol. Well here's to hoping things work themselves out soon...I think i'm supposed to ovulate this week (at least thats what the app on my phone tells me..lol) plus i'm on vacation.. so fingers crossed!

I am another one who got pregnant in the month after going off the pill after being on it for 13 years straight. Y'never know.

I got pregnant whilst on the pill. It's just up to your body!

I took Depo for only three years, but it took me a full two years to start cycling and get a period after my last injection. Of course, I could have been fertile earlier, but I wasn't trying at the time so who knows. But I'm definitely not trying to be a bummer -- hopefully if you are already having irregular periods and tracking your temperature and it's indicating that you are ovulating, it will happen for you sooner!

You just might! I was actually tested by 2 different doctors for hypothyroidism, with the memory issues being the biggest concern (all of the symptoms I had were also known side effects of Depo - wish one of them would have mentioned that!). Things like, "did I feed the cats dinner already?" or people swearing they had told me something or bringing home the same bad movie 3 times... subjective stuff that could be explained by working fulltime and doing graduate classes at night and just being spread too thin, so I never followed up when my thyroid tests came back normal.