How soon can I get pregnant after going off the shot?

Once you get the shot it keeps working in your body for three months. So, if it’s been less than three months since your last shot and you want to get pregnant, you’re going to have to wait for it to wear off. There’s no way around it. For most people, your ability to get pregnancy will return to whatever is normal when the shot wears off in three months, but for some people it may take a bit longer, sometimes up to a year. And how long it takes to get pregnant is different for different people.

Still not working?

If you think you’d like to become pregnant sometime in the near future or right after you stop your birth control, you might want to choose one of the hormonal methods that allows a faster return to fertility, such as the pill, patch, ring, or IUD. You might also consider a method you only use when you have sex, like condoms or internal condoms.