No help or advice sorry, I've never heard of provera before
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No help or advice sorry, I've never heard of provera before
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medroxyprogesterone, Provera, Depo-Provera, Depo-Sub Q Provera 104
PRESCRIBED FOR: Medroxyprogesterone tablets are used for treating secondary amenorrhea (cessation of menstruation); abnormal bleeding from the uterus due to hormonal imbalance and not due to fibroids, or cancer; and to prevent endometrial hyperplasia (overgrowth in the endometrial lining) in postmenopausal women who have not undergone a hysterectomy and are receiving conjugated estrogens.
In a nutshell it is a form of birth control, but in my case I have had my tubes tied, but it can be used to skip a menstrual cycle which is what I am taking it for. So the old man and I can bump uglies. He as with many men (not all) is not interested in sex during a period.
The Depo Provera I get is in injection form and lasts 3 months. I usually start to spot bleed the week the next injection is due. I have never taken anything orally in Provera form.
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I've only had experience with the depo provera injection too. Once every 3 months. I haven't had a period in about 6 months, if not longer.
I guess start taking it a few days or more before you're weekend, then stop taking it when you're home again? Bringing on an early period may not go to plan, but holding it off by taking it might help?
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That's what I'm trying to ascertain, I don't care if it comes early, that way it will be over before we go away, I just don't want them to come the minute I go away. I have started taking the tablets in a hope it will hold them off, but as I stated in my original post "My period has been between the 12th and the 16th of the month for the past few month's. With warning signs, tender nipples being the most common (but not always), at least two to three weeks before they start. Sometimes they just start without any of the warning signs.
I made an appointment with my GP to get some Provera, which when I take at the end of the cycle puts it on hold, until my weekend away. My GP
couldn't see me on the 12th of this month as was originally planned, I saw him today the 16th. I got the Provera, but of course as my luck is great, I am still waiting for my period. This evening I noticed my nipples were starting to get tender.(that was on the 17th)" It is now the 20th here.
So ideally I would like them to skip altogether, I have 11 more days in which (I can't believe I'm saying this) I hope they arrive, if not they will wait until the first day of our holiday (Murphy's Law).
As I have said it's not the fear of getting pregnant, it is the fear of not being able to be intimate.
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