How Depo Provera birth control injection works?
Like most of the combination birth control pills, Depo Provera works by preventing ovulation so that mature eggs can not be fertilized so there can not be pregnancy. It further thickens the cervical mucus thus preventing sperm to swim into uterus for fertilization of eggs. While you are not on any birth control methods, your body develops uterine lining to prepare for pregnancy but if you don’t get pregnant (sperm doesn’t meet with the released egg), this lining diminishes and period starts. When you are on the Depo Provera dose, you will get shorter or no periods. Most of the women do not experience periods in a year’s time. How to take Depo Provera birth control injection? Depo provera is taken every 3 months i.e 4 times a year. The exact time for next shot will be between 11-13 weeks. Your healthcare professional or doctor should be able to advise you the next schedule for the shot. It is usually taken from the first day of the start of the periods. If, however, taken on first Sunda
