Why is Depo-Provera the best form of birth control? writing an essay for english class, need sources.?

Just curious - is this the topic you were assigned, or did you pick it?





There are a lot of pros and cons to every type of birth control...depo isn't necessarily the best. It's ';easy'; (a shot every three months), and for some women it can helps lighten flow/ease cramping. But...it's a synthetic hormone and can cause really unpleasant side-effects such as depression, calcium loss in your bones, weight-gain and loss of sex drive (among many others). Also, if you are using depo and plan to become pregnant, your body will need about a full year to return to fertility.





The ';best'; form of birth control, ultimately, is the one that will be used correctly every time, and has the least amount of objectionable side effects for the user.Why is Depo-Provera the best form of birth control? writing an essay for english class, need sources.?
Well, depends what you mean by ''best''. It is the most effective of all hormonal methods in preventing pregnancy, but it is also only to be used as a last resort when other methods aren't appropriate. It contains no estrogen, and a synthetic version of progesterone. The side effects include more weight gain than the pill (11 lbs vs 4 lbs), mood swings, it lowers the calcium in your bone (bone density loss) so you need to take a calcium supplement while on it, and you should not use it longer than two consecutive years. After you quit taking Depo it can take 9 months to resume a regular menstrual cycle and become fertile again. I am on it and I love it, but I understand the risks involved. A lot of women will tear it apart because they're not familiar with the pharmacology behind it and used it without educating themselves first and then experienced some of the many side effects. They advertise no period, but only about 50% of users lose it completely. Others spot, some quite continuously.


That said, you don't have to take a pill every day, it's effective for three months, it is most effective of all hormonal methods, it's cheap (~$40 a shot), and it can also be used as treatment for endometriosis.


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