After injections?

[nicola21]

Please help I had my last hormone injection on the 9th June and still my periods have not started again. Is this a normal length of time? How long has it been for other ladies? X

[Impatient]

Average is 5-6 months wait - half of ladies will be quicker and half take longer. So very early days yet. Please don't worry. If you wait over a year then see your GP to run some hormone tests and see what the situation is then.

Your last dose was 9th June - to 7 July. After the 7th it the strength will drop away and over the next 3-4 months all traces of the drug will gradually disperse.

Because there are still traces you still need to practice safe sex and avoid a pregnancy till beginning October anyway after that you are able to have sex without condoms or other barriers but won't be able to get pregnant unless you have ovulated.

The pituitary gland will already be back to work producing some of the hormone production it had shut down - but the sex hormones are low priority in the body so the hormones used for temperature regulation, blood pressure and heart rate should get back a lot faster so side effects should already be noticeably improved.

Try and do your best to enjoy this break - free of the grim side effects for the most part and free of endo activity too. When your periods return so too will any remaining endo be reactivated once again.

I actually felt when my period was beginning because of the usual build up symptoms..bloating, weight gain, spotty outbreak and lastly a day or two of PMT - all as per my usual experience..then the period arrived. If you are someone who feels ovulation and series of pre-menstrual symptoms then they should return too and give you a clue as to roughly when you are due on.

No cause for concern for some time yet.

[nicola21 in reply to Impatient]

Thank you. I'm not looking forward to them as already getting the pains of the endo again but still getting the side effects of the injections and not sure how long I can go withthese hot flushes and night sweats x

[michelle86]

Took me 12 months to have a period after stopping depo contraceptive injection, and was only then I had my first severe symptoms of endo. Before I just thought I had painful periods.

[Confused1991]

I had the depo injection for around 4 years, finished it in feb & only just getting back to normal! X

[sbactive]

I'm with you with the hot flushes!! I stopped my zoladex around the same time as you and it's the same, no period. And the pain is gradually returning!!! What a pain this is!! I can cope with the aches joints and stiffness but the sweats!! My hair has gone from long to shorter, and shorter and shorter!! Too hot! Hopefully these will begin to wear off for us. I feel for you!,

Lots of love and thank goodness to whoever invented the fan!!

Steph x x

[Impatient in reply to sbactive]

and the fridge and the deep freezes with doors in supermarkets too. Just when you need them as you do the weekly shop !! Oh the number of times I would be shopping in one aisle then a mad dash to the freezer section the practically climb in to cool down.

[nicola21 in reply to sbactive]

It's been horrible I can't cope with them. Also becoming serverly exhausted is this normal too with endo? Glad I'm not not alone (not that I'd want anyone else to go through this but was begining to think it was just me) x