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- From: llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine)
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- Subject: Re: depo provera LONG
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- Date: 9 Nov 92 07:14:58 GMT
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- Steve Dyer (dyer@spdcc.com) wrote:
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- : Depo-Provera has long been approved for purposes other than its use as
- : contraceptive. My understanding is that it was approved for
- : contraceptive use last week, but I wasn't paying too much attention
- : either, because I was at Interop in San Francisco.
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- i'm really curious about how it's used as a contraceptive. i've got
- polycystic ovaries and periodically have to take provera to induce
- periods (without medication, i'd only have one a year or so). the
- usual pattern is to take it for five days and then stop, with bleeding
- starting a couple of days later.
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- for contraceptive purposes, do people just take it that way every
- month (for five or ten days only)? or is it a 21-day thing like
- traditional oral contraceptives? or is it a daily pill?
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- sine nomine | debbie martinson
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