Surgery & Birth Control?

Birth control medications increase your risk of blood clots.  Typically we recommend that patients stop birth control medications two weeks before surgery and resume it two weeks after surgery.  The increased risks of blood clots is not great, so some patients will choose to remain on birth control.  Discuss your options with your surgeon.  Anticoagulation postoperatively is an option you might want to consider with your surgeon.

Thank you very much for your question.In general, progesterone-only birth control doesn't cause an increase in DVT risk (compared to birth control containing estrogen).  The exception to that progesterone-only formulation may be depo-provera, which has been shown to increase the risk of DVT.I wouldn't have a problem doing your surgery with you having received depo-provera, but I would make sure to implement prophylactic measures (which I would do anyway), and watch you closely.  However, I recommend you discuss this with your surgeon, as your surgeon's thoughts may be different than mine.  Best of luck!

Hello dear, thanks for your post, Birth
control should not interfere with your surgery, but I recommend to to
make a consultation with your gynecologist and then with your plastic
surgeon to talk about this and your goals. Good luck :)