Birth Control Pill and History of Blood Clots

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Blood Clot History

Women who have personally experienced such blood clot problems as deep-vein thrombophlebitis, pulmonary embolism, cerebrovascular accident (stroke) or heart attack should not, under ordinary circumstances, take birth control pills.

These medical issues frequently occur among women with predisposing risk factors. If the risk factors are eliminated, it is unknown just how dangerous it would be to take BCPs, but most physicians will not run that unknown risk for their patient, short of extraordinary circumstances.

Women who have a family history of these problems but who have not, personally, experienced the problems, may safely take BCPs.

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