If you stop taking birth control how soon after will the probability of a heart attack go down?

Answer 1

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Hello,

The risk of heart attack is NOT associated with Birth Control. Heart attacks are caused by uncontrolled Diabetes, High blood pressure and Cholesterol and high stress level. Its next to impossible that a Woman of reproductive age will have a Heart attack when she is perfectly healthy, without any history of a Heart condition.

Birth control do have a lot of side effects and the most common side effects are pregnancy symptoms or blood clots.

Try not to worry so much as you will not have a Heart attack.

Answer 2

The risk of heart attack is absolutely associated with hormonal birth control, this is because they can cause blood clotting, also the reason why they can cause deep vein thrombosis and stroke - thus why hormonal birth control isn't recommended to those who smoke or are otherwise at high risk.

There have been multiple cases of otherwise healthy young women dying as a result of heart attack brought on by the use of hormonal birth control. For example Erika Langhart who was using NuvaRing and died at just 24 years old, there have been 224 deaths linked to this brand alone.

The risk of heart attack goes down immediately when you stop using the hormonal birth control, no one knows the exact details of how quickly risk is reduced because no one has thought to do the research - in part as manufacturers attempt to hide the potential risk.