Bone loss due to long-term Depo-Provera may not be as much of a problem as the black box warning suggests
December 2008
Bone loss due to long-term Depo-Provera may not be as much of a problem as the black box warning suggests.
The warning says not to use Depo-Provera (medroxyprogesterone) over 2 years...except as a last resort.
But many women use it longer for convenient effective birth control.
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