"i had my implanon removed today. i had it exactly one year because i felt like i had to give it a chance. at first i thought that the problems i was having were because of switching birth control, but they continued. i was on depo provera before and hadn&#039;t had a period in 5 years, and started getting light periods, then the slowly progressed and became longer. i have now been bleeding since early august and it&#039;s mid december. it occasionally hurt in my arm too. it would sting and itch. removal was terrible (insertion wasn&#039;t bad) i had scar tissue build around it and it took 25 minutes of cutting and scraping to get it out. "