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Re: [Birth Control] High Blood Pressure

From: Alicia M. Lapidus M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:21:24 -0500 (CDT)

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What happens with your B.P. if you stop taking the pills for a few months?, if it stays high then they are not the pills, if it comes down change method.

At Thu, 15 Aug 2002, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote: >
>I have been diagnosed about five years ago with having high blood pressure
>at 21. I have been on Cyclen 21 since I was 17 and have never switched
>pills. My Dr. tested my cholesterol levels which was normal, did a heart
>test which is normal and really could not find reason for my High BP, except
>for the pill and it does not run in my family. But I have an irregular
>period (before the pill) and I like this as my method of birth control as I
>have been with he same person for 4 years. Therefore I do not want to go
>off the pill. She thinks the pill is making my BP high, but never suggested
>changing it to lower does and opted to put me on meds. I was first on a
>water pill that reduced it, but after 3 years I was stagnant and she
>switched me to coversyl (4mg). I am 25 and my boyfriends parents take
>Coversyl, and if I do not need to be on this medication I would rather not.
>My pharmacist suggested getting my DR. to switch me to the Allesse birth
>control b/c it has lower levels of estrogens. I take my pill every day at
>the same time and in the 9 years I have been on the pill I have only missed
>2 pills. What is your opinion on the matter, and what kind of pill is
>Allesse. I don't want to gain weight or get acne, which I heard can be a
>side effect if Allesse.
>
>Thank you for your advice.
>
>Shelley
>
>Shelley Kasunich
>Communications Assistant
>PMO MASIS
>996-6249
>kasunich.sl@forces.ca

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Alicia M. Lapidus M.D.
Chief of Staff Obstetrics, Hospital Fernández
Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Barcelo University
Vicepresident of Argentine Society of Hypertension in Pregnancy
Director Latina Obgyn.net- http\latina.obgyn.net\espanol
Buenos Aires
Argentina

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