High blood pressure and headaches

Hi,
Welcome to ehealthforum and I’ll be more than happy to help you. Oral contraceptives are known to produce hypertension in around 5% of the females taking the same.


However, this was much more common in the older formulations of OCP’s which contained estrogen & progesterone in much higher concentrations compared to the newer formulations which contain them in much lower concentrations decreasing the chances of complications including hypertension.


Usually, the risk from hypertension, like stroke or heart disease is more common in females taking the OCP’s who are > 35 years of age, are obese or smoke & thus the risk of the complications in young females like you is much less.


However, I’ll still suggest you to discuss the same with your physician and consider some alternative modes of contraception, if possible. Other causes of hypertension should be looked into if the BP fails to come back to normal even after stopping the pills. I sincerely hope that helps. Take care.