I started on the DEPO in April 2011(simply because I didnt want a period) and although I didn't experience hair loss, my hair barely grew a couple of inches the entire first year. I took my self off about six months ago (April 2013)and my hair has not began to grow yet, BUT a week ago I began taking prenatal pills and Hair, Nail, Skin pills to see if it will spark growth. My hair normally grows about a 1/2 inch a month but fooling with this DEPO shot it took me 29 months to grow 5.5 to 6 inches of hair. Im too thru with this DEPO. I cant say how long it will take to be back normal.
Hi Shausty,
I can relate. I have experienced hair loss as well. It is upsetting. I am approaching the two month mark of being affected by the Depo-Provera shot. I am due for my second shot during the first week of January and I don't want to have a second injection. I also experienced extreme depression which does not help my anemia and desire to seek employment. Needless to say, this sacrifice has been unappreciated by others. It has been taken for granted and I don't want to take this shot again anytime, soon.
I have alopecia now due to that shot and i only took one. Also my periods for a month and half so far now. never again. Depo privera should be taken off the market.
My hair has been falling out all over also but mostly on the side it looks like I have a receding hair line... I've been on the depo shot for only 3 months
I have had one shot and already know that I will not be getting a second! My hair is also falling out. I'm 52 and was put on it because I have very heavy periods and I'm now on Warfrine (a blood thinner) for blood clots in my lungs. I was never told of this side effect. I wish I would have been! I would have picked a different route! Good luck to all of you young girls! I pray our hair comes back!
Hopefully everybody can read this I'm 37 years old and I started taking the depo shot when I was 19! Long ass time. I had quit drinking and usually bling my moods and being a total b***h on alcohol but I stopped drinking for over 3 years now and I was still being a b***h I realized it was the shot that was making me be an a****** lol lol so I've been off two shots in September of 2015. I used to have very thick beautiful hair and it started falling out at the beginning of this year!! It's not so bad to the point where I almost look like the Crypt Keeper lol not so funny but I try to make light of things. I started taking biotin and using Nioxin for noticeably thinning hair and my hair is now starting to grow back and looking somewhat back to normal but it's been about a year before my hair started to grow out and stop falling out it just now stopped falling out for the most part. The depo shot is the devil and had I known what it was going to do with me I would have found a different method. I do now use an IUD non hormonal! Because the hormones in the depo shot is what caused me to be a b***h the IUD you don't have to worry about that for 10 years if you get the non hormonal kind which I would recommend so that you don't have mood swings and be a constant b***h lol. There are no side effects to the IUD except for some minor details here and there but everything comes with a chance in life. I hope this is helpful and for anybody who's thinking about to get on this god awful shot the depo stay the hell away from it! Pass it on!