Visible enlarged veins all over my body

[MagdalenaR]

In July 2015 I started to take an antiandrogen birth control pill. Two weeks later I felt strong pain in my legs and my wrists. At the same time I noticed that I suddenly got blue veins all on my arms, palm, chest, legs, belly and feet! I've never had visible veins in these areas before. These veins don't stick out, they're just visible. And for the first time in my life I got big blue spider veins behind me knees. Nobody in my family has vein problems and I am not over weight. I always had fair skin but never visible veins. What happened to my body? I went to different doctors. The first two doctors told me that it is totally normal and nothing to be concerned off. I even got a duplex sonography and everything seemed to be fine. But the pain in my legs didn't stop and the veins became more and more noticable. A few weeks later another doctor detected an enlarged superificial vein (no reflux, vein valves are ok) in my left leg via a duplex sonography. She gave me compression stockings. But what about the veins in the other areas of my body? I still don't understand how two weeks of birth control pills could enlarge all the veins in my body forever. I am feeling desperate. It looks so ugly. I lool like a human road map. All my doctors keep telling me that the birth control pills couldn't be the reason for my vein problems. But what else?

[AndRynne]

I agree with all the other doctors. You are becoming a bit fixated on these normal visible veins. They may have been there before you started on BC pill. But if you are all that unhappy why not just discontinue the BC pill and use another form of contraceptive.

[MagdalenaR]

But the doctor said that the vein in one leg is strongly enlarged. This is not healthy. And I don't think that normal veins would cause me so much pain. I really didn't have visible veins before. Also my parents and my boyfriend noticed the veins. I discontinued the BC Pill already after two months. But it is too late. The damage is done. And the veins are becoming larger and larger.