Just two questions about Depot Provera

[gothique]

I am on Depo Provera and I received my first shot on July 3rd due to having a complex cyst on my ovary. Since this injection was given more for medical reasons than for birth control I did not get while I was menstruating. I actually got it 8 days after the START of my period. The nurse who gave me the injection told me that since I didn't get it during my period I'd have to wait a full month until I was protected. So I waited a month and one day to be exact and began having unprotected sex with my husband.

What is stressing me out is that my friend told me that I should have waited until I got my 2nd shot because she knows a girl who did what I was doing and she got pregnant. I know I should trust the nurse over someone who knows someone, but I'm just a little paranoid. So I was just wondering how effective is the shot when you don't get it during your period like you're suppose to?

Also I have another question that's sort of silly. I only have one ovary due to losing the other one from having endo and I was wondering if the birth control would be more powerful due to it working only on one ovary instead of two? The reason I ask is because the rather large complex cyst disappeared within two weeks of the injection and I haven't gotten my period at all since the shot so I assume I didn't ovulate. So to me it seemed to work rapidly.

Any help at all would be appreciated!

[utchick]

the depo is EVIL i was on it for five years and had lots of probs wit my period but then i started the dp now i8t was great cuz i only had to get the shot every four months but i got off it in dec.07 cuz i got married and i started getting pains in my stoumch they where awful and now no one kno's why i'm in so much pain well now we con't get pregnant i've had three miscarriage's it's the worst. i wouldn't go on the dp if you ever want to have kids or a family no one told me about the side effects well here's your's it's to much after pain to have for just a birth control and i relize that most don't care but plz don't do the shot

[smileluvr]

I did not get depo during my period, but because of it, I had a 4 month period afterwards. I think that it one of those situations that depends on the woman.