I tried Depo and for the first 3 months it was AMAZING. It was the 2nd shot 3 months later that was absolutely horrible. The first morning after my 2nd shot I woke up covered in acne. My skin had been clear my entire life with very minimal pimples ever. But that morning I was COVERED in thousands of whiteheads all over my face and back and chest. I freaked out and immediately jumped into the shower to try and clean my skin. It was there that my nightmare intensified. My long hair started falling out in clumps. Huge clumps of hair. The drain was instantly clogged and it didn’t stop falling out. My hands were coated and covered with my own hair.

I sank down to the floor of the shower sobbing thinking that there was no way this was happening and that I must be sleeping and I would eventually wake up. I laid there until the water turned cold and forced me out of the shower. I slowly walked to the mirror horrified to even look. So much hair had fallen out that I had bald spots. Full areas with no hair at all. My skill was so covered and discolored from the acne that I felt like I was looking at a stranger in the mirror. All I could do was cry. As if that was not bad enough I then proceeded to get my period for the next 3 months straight. I was slightly anemic before and this caused me to be weak and need to take much stronger iron pills to combat the constant bleeding. When I called my DR he informed me that is why they put warnings on these things and there was no way to know how my body was going to react. My skin eventually cleared up, the constant bleeding stopped but years later my hair has never really recovered.