Re: Depo Provera - in Indiana - almost killed me!!


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Posted by Shelly Borsits on May 15, 2001:
In Reply to: Re: Depo Provera Class Action posted by Stephanie Locricchio on July 5, 2000:
Dee dee and everyone hello!

I too am looking to bring a law suit against depo. I am in Rensselaer Indiana.
My phone number is 219-866-5126 and anyone who needs to 'talk' about what this has done to them is welcome to call me. I almost killed myself over depo...
depo has crippled me and brought on so many symptoms I thought I was going crazy.

I started depo in 96 and was on it for a year. My mother and a massage therapist I started going to for 'sore muscles' begged me to get off of it.
I had a friend who had no side effects so I didn't think at ALL that depo
did this to me. But I got off it none the less.

The first year I started getting violent headaches. My hair started falling out when I would wash it. Not just a little bit of hair -- I know you lose about 100 strands a day - I was losing A TON of hair. I was somewhat moody -- but I thought it was just because my body was in so much pain with the severe headaches, neckaches etc.

I thought I had to have something seriously wrong in my neck - it hurt so bad and was so weak I couldn't keep my head up. I kept a towel wrapped around my neck. I went to the doctor who was giving me these shots with these symptoms BEFORE I got off the shot. She told me NO these were not side effects of the shot and STILL KEPT GIVING ME THE SHOT - and sent me to a neurologist. I asked him if it could be the shot - he told me NO. He said I was suffering from stress ---- BOY DID THAT PISS ME OFF!! I am the most laid back person - I don't have to go to a real job -- I worked from my home and have a wonderful boyfriend (now husband) and actually the perfect STRESS FREE LIFE.

He put shots in to the muscles in my neck he said to relax them. Those shots (one in each shoulder) made me so ill I was unable to get out of my bed for four days. Seriously.. I had to have help going to the bathroom. Needless to say I did not go back.

I was always crying from the pain because I did not know what was wrong.

I stopped the shots.

I went to another doctor who was a general practicioner and also a chirpractor. I told him the symptoms -- I told him I thought the pain had to be coming from the back of my head or my neck. He sent me for mris - nothing.
x-rays said I was fine. He said my muscles were like knots and he put me in traction and did manipulations on me for weeks and weeks. I never got better and stopped going after the medical bills got so high I had to stop going.

Everything that was suppose to be helping me get better was making me worse. It is as if my muscles are crippled. But that is just the beginning.

My vision was so blurry that I couldn't focus on anything. I thought I was losing my vision. I went to the eye doctor and he said there was nothing wrong. Nothing wrong?? How could that be. I could no longer read traffic signs clearly from where I use to be able to and everything just looked rather cloudy.

My hair loss eventually stopped -- now it is the opposite. I have hair where I am not suppose to. I have hair on my toes and my breasts.. like a man. Not to mention the facial hair. I have to constantly remove this. I am from a light complexion family too.. so this is not something that is the 'norm' for us. No women in my family have this. Only me.

My concentration and memory something that was as sharp as a tack - you could ask anyone who knows me - just went downhill with no explanation. I think my husband thought at first I was trying to be cute.. sometimes it would get so bad I would stutter - just couldn't get the words out. If I am watching t.v. and a commercial comes on I would forget completely what I was watching. I could be in the middle of a sentence and just switch to something else because I couldn't remember what I want to say.

I thought a lot about suicide because of the immense pain. Everything hurt.. everywhere, it seemed like my immune system was shutting down and I was catching every cold, and flu bug.

I think it is also VERY important for me to say that I am not some sickly person who is inactive. Before all of this I was a size 3/5. I did yoga faithfully every day for AT LEAST one hour. Sometimes twice a day - as well as walking, tae bo, etc. I actually eat very well, I only drink water and 100% pure orange juice, cut out caffeine and most bad sugar, and excercised all the time. My body just started detioriating. I thought I was dying - I thought I must have cancer or something horribly wrong -- but all tests showed perfect health. I thought I was losing my mind.

The headaches kept up.. so severe and it was coupled with that dizziness and the sensation that I would pass out if I bent over. I went to a sinus doctor - he told me I needed surgery. I underwent surgery in March of this year.
I didn't get better.. I got WORSE after surgery. I believe now that that surgery was a complete misdiagnosis -- I think the $14,000 + bill lined the doctors pockets -- but it didn't get me well.

I was up to (for the past two years) 6 to 8 excedrin migraines a day. I was taking so many (nothing else worked) that I became very sick to my stomach.
I had to stop taking them.. but if I tried I was just laying there crying in constant pain and my husband would beg me to take them.

I just three weeks ago, went back to the general pract./ chiro doctor in DeMotte Indiana - because I believe he is a truly good doctor who wants to help people. I haven't told him yet that I suspect depo -- but I am printing off everything I find now online and I am taking it in to him next week. I know if there is one doctor that will listen to me, he will.

He put me on Prozac. I told him I didn't want to take it -- I AM NOT DEPRESSED!! He said he thought I had fibromyalgia -- where all of your muscles hurt all the time. He said Prozac helps people with fibromyalgia.

IF I HAVE FIBROMYALGIA - it was brought on in my opinion by DEPO PROVERA!!!
On depo is when I became ill. Before I was a pefectly healthy individual - anyone can look at my medical records and see I very rarely went to the doctors for anything.

Prozac is helping me. He told me I will probably have to be on it indefinitely.
It is helping me sleep -- it increases the seratonin levels in the brain - which I believe depo screwed up!!!

I use to sleep like a baby -- a train could have rolled through the house before and I wouldn't wake up. No more... I got insomnia -- sleeping only 1 or 2 complete hours a night. Prozac is helping me sleep. It is helping my muscles relax... something I KNOW depo destroyed because I went to someone who was deep in to yoga and meditation to someone who can't touch her toes.

Oh yes.. I went from a size 3/5 to a 12 on depo. I am back down again but it took a lot of hard work. This too you can see from my medical records.. my weight just kept going up and up while on depo.

I pray this message gets out to ALL WOMEN considering depo. I almost committed suicide - something I am desperately ashamed of admitting because I am a very strong willed person who loved life, and I appreciate life.

I hate to think I know have to stay on Prozac indefinitely - something my doctor said is going to be what has to happen. God only knows what prozac can do to me. However after only three weeks I am about 75% better.. I can't live at all without it.. I know I can't. My stomach can't take the excedrin, and my body can't take the pain.

PLEASE email me if you live in Indiana and want to bring a class action law suit against these people.

My next question.. do we even have to live in the same state? Can't all of us, from all over ban together? I don't know how this works.

Any light anyone can shed on the suit will be helpful.

Any light or hope I can give anyone on 'surviving after depo' feel free to email me or call me at home
[email protected]
219-866-5126

I told my husband I feel there has to be women who have KILLED themselves because of depo and perhaps nobody knows why they did what they did. I know there has to be other women suffering and thinking they are 'crazy' like I did.

I am going to put up another web site to warn people about depo. If you want to put your stories there just email them to me at [email protected]

when I get it up I will post the url here.

Thank you everyone and hang in there!

Shelly Borsits
shelly@abcinternetmarketing
219-866-5126






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