Edited: I should have googled first.

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Early Menstruation and Late Menopause -- Women who started menstrual periods early (before age 12) or went through menopause late (after age 55) are at higher risk. Also, women who have never had children or who had them only after the age of 30 have an increased risk.

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[ 23 February 2005: Message edited by: shaolin ]

But that in itself is a bad reason to freak out about it, since animals and humans react differently to various drugs (for instance, don't give cats Tylenol because their liver can't metabolize it - it's like poison for them)

When I finished school, one of my good friends told me she was on Depo-provera for a while and that she suspected it had created some health problems for her and exacerbated existing ones. Still, though, that's anecdotal and not a reason to freak out.

But I did a bit of googling on it from time to time - every time I heard of somebody who was on it. One site that gives some recent information on a link between Depo-provera and osteoporosis is this one

I just want to say that I'm absolutely pro-birth control, but I had some bad, scary experiences with the pill myself, and it's just another one of those territories you have to enter with caution, fully armed with as much knowledge as possible.

[ 23 February 2005: Message edited by: brebis noire ]

Surprisingly she found that a significant number of her clients were women in their 20s on the BCP who smoked.