Flip and chops wont be any higher than your current brake hoods. If your hoods are too uncomfortable to ride on you might want to try tektro aero levers (pic); they're cheap as ****, they feel great and they're easy to brake with from the tops. The big draw of drops is multiple hand positions and cobnverting to flipnchops is basically just going to lose you that aero position while not gaining anything new.
