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(also known as Medroxyprogesterone)

Progestins are hormones.

The low-dose progestins for contraception are used to prevent pregnancy. Other names for progestin-only oral contraceptives are minipills and progestin-only pills (POPs). Progestins can prevent fertilization by preventing a woman's egg from fully developing.

Also, progestins caus... continue

Treatment Success Rate

Top 5 Communities
Condition Members Success
Polycystic Ovarian Synd...
236
88%
Endometriosis
132
52%
Menopause
24
79%
Infertility
15
93%
Miscarriage
3
100%
Overall, 76% (416 Members) find Provera helpful

Provera Reviews

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Worked to induce periods. Took it when I was a teenager, so don't really remember it.
Working / Worked
This did make me start my period during the first cycle, but I started on my own during the second!
Working / Worked
currently i am on the depo provera shot. i used it once before as just birth control years ago and didnt have any side effects but this time ive had a lot of break through bleeding. so now i take low doses of estrogen to help thicken my lining.
Works on me. I get my period a couple days later.
took it once and it worked
Working / Worked
did not work had a allergic reaction to it
used it for two or three cycles before b/c.
Need sometime's to get that period.
Working / Worked
after surgery they took me off
Working / Worked
drug induced menopause.... I don't even want to talk about it.
Working / Worked
but side affects made me anxious
Just to bring on a period 2 or 3 times a year.
I was just prescribed this today to help get my period. i've taken it before and it worked really well.
The Metformin I am taking stopped my period, so I take Provera to induce it and so far it has been working.
worked to bring on periods
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Discussions

  1. Discussion: medroxyprogesterone (Provera)????
    well if your preg i read somewhere that no your period won't come the baby would send out more hormone to be like no i'm here. [More]
  2. Discussion: medroxyprogesterone (Provera)????
    My friend with pcos used to take 2 weeks plus for hers but it would finally come & be heavy flow for at least 2 days. When I took the Provera my p... [More]
  3. Discussion: medroxyprogesterone (Provera)????
    HI! It took me exactly 2 weeks to get my period after the LAST day I finished the pills-so don't fret. it just takes some people longer. I wish ... [More]
  4. Discussion: medroxyprogesterone (Provera)????
    I took Provera for 5 days straight and last time i took it i had AF the day after my last pill...well now i'm going on 10 days since my last pill and ... [More]
  5. Discussion: anyone use medroxyprogesterone (Provera)
    i am starting it for the 1st time. it is only a 5 day pill. i thought i was getting a 10 day pill. how soon did you get your cycle??? I am wonderin... [More]

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