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What strategies do you recommend for discussing the use of OCP in women with a history of migraines with or without aura?
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The Centers for Disease Control's Medical Eligibility Criteria (MEC) considers migraine with aura to be a contraindication to the use of combined oral contraceptives (COCs) due to the increased risk of ischemic stroke. This is based upon limited, mostly older, studies that demonstrated some increase...
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