I could NOT shift the weight for over a year until the crap was out of my system and my metabolism started to slowly kick back in. I had hovered aroudn 60kg all my adult life until the blow out straight after the depo. And I'll reiterate the complete kill off of my libido. Prior to the depo I was a raging sex kitten (no joke!!) and then nada, nothin, niente.
Side effects the administering doctor told me nothing about.