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Courtesy of Lynsey Lee
Lynsey Lee, 19, was diagnosed two years ago with a blood clot in her left lung, months after she began taking the birth control pill Yaz.
Lynsey Lee hoped Yaz would relieve her severe menstrual cramping and pelvic pain, so she began taking the birth control pills when she was only 16. But, instead of getting better, she started experiencing extreme mood swings, nausea and even more pain.
“I got really, really sick,” says Lee, now 19, of White Bluff, Tenn. “I was just constantly throwing up, and it was getting hard to breathe sometimes.”
Then, she started having unbearable chest pains that sent her to the hospital what seemed like every few days. Doctors initially couldn’t figure out what was wrong. “They kept telling me that it was just my body getting used to the medicine,” she says. “Finally, [when I was 17] I just stopped taking it.”
Later that year, after numerous medical exams, doctors diagnosed a blood clot lodged in her left lung. During one emergency room visit, doctors asked Lee what would become a life-changing question for thousands of young women like her: “Have you ever taken Yaz?”
Now, she is among the more than 10,000 American women who have filed class action lawsuits or claims against the German pharmaceutical giant Bayer, which makes Yaz, a popular birth control pill. Thousands more claims are expected. In documents released Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration raised questions about conflicting evidence about the risks of taking Yaz and other similar pills, including life-threatening blood clots, and said warning information should appear on labels for doctors and patients.
Thursday, the FDA's panel of outside experts voted 21-5 that current labeling on the medications isn't enough and should be updated with more information on the risks. But that news comes too late for Lee.
“I wish I had known before,” she says. “I never would have taken Yaz.”
A representative from Bayer said the company did not have an immediate response.
The side effects of taking the birth control pill that was touted as having fewer side effects than others have destroyed her life, Lee says.
She had been the captain of the high school dance team, but Lee said after she began developing symptoms, she had to sit on the sidelines because she couldn’t catch her breath. She ended up missing the second half of her senior year in high school, including her senior prom. But, she says, her biggest sacrifice was giving up a full dance team scholarship to Vanderbilt University -- all because of the blood clot that doctors can do little about.
Removing it is too dangerous, they say; Lee takes blood thinners and hopes the clot will dissolve and work its way through her system.
Today, Lee says, she lives with pain and fatigue and isn't strong enough to work. Instead of attending college classes to earn a business degree, Lee makes weekly visits to her doctor for monitoring.
She’s hired Oklahoma City attorney Noble McIntyre, a member of the attorney group The Injury Board, which advocates for patient safety. McIntyre represents 60 Yaz victims and partners with another firm representing 600 Yaz clients.
“She’s missed out on her youth, and she missed out on a scholarship that probably was worth $200,000,” McIntyre says. “We try to give our clients hope that somebody understands what they are going through. We’re trying to communicate with the defendant what these women, through no fault of their own, have experienced. She lost her prom. She lost her freedom, something so valuable to people, because she’s mostly confined to her home.”
Story: FDA panel: Add stronger warnings to birth control labels
Lee says she’s depressed because her compromised health keeps her from living a normal teenager’s life. “I cry a lot,” she says. "It just hurts so much."
She dreams of someday opening a pastry shop and bakes cakes now for her family when she’s up to it. Shehas helped coordinate fundraising efforts for the Ronald McDonald House and the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis. But she's still not sure what her future may hold.
“I don’t pray to get better because it’s in [God’s] hands,” she says. “I pray for happiness. I pray for others in this world that have it much worse than I do.”
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all medicines have side effects, we cant just go around suing everyone. if you read the warning label for tylenol youll never want to take it again. and if it hurt so bad the first time, why on earth did she continue taking it?
The doctor's told her that Severe chest pain was her body getting used to Yaz... She should sue them too
They sure should be allowed to sue. Why not? You haven't even taken a look at the data before you say such a sweeping comment. These giant drug companies run there own testing on there drugs. Many times it has been proven that test results have been altered and manipulated in such a way that the true severity of the side effects are maid to look much milder or even innocuous when in reality they are horrible and in some cases kill people. If this is found to be the case why shouldn't they be able to sue. There are a lot of warnings that the drug companies have about protocols and such. You seem to feel that they should have no regulation or have any liability when the drugs they put out destroy lives. Why should they be exempt from prosecution when no one else is(except of course politicians). If they want to take on the responsibility and make the ridiculous profit margins they need to be held accountable as well.
Class action?? They won't get anything. The lawyers will get it all.
You got that right!!! You file your own civil suit...But now that she has entered the class action, there is a little clause that states she is now unable to sue outside of the class action.
Seems she not only got bad medical advice but legal as well. SAD!
The potential for blood clots is fully disclosed in all package information, commercials, handouts, etc. as a potential risk of ALL birth control medications and other hormones. You people make it sound like this is a shocking cover up. There are risks to every medication. If you don't want the risks, then don't take the medication. Oh, and smoking increases the risk of blood clots, so someone should ask her if she smokes. Enough with the suing already unless you are going to yourself for not reading the safety information.
A defective product is a defective product. Remember Diethylstilbestrol (DES)? It was marketed as a medicine to prevent miscarriages...it was later found to be VERY bad to women (Read: Cancer and birth defects). Thalidomide, Fen-phen, Avandia, just to name a few. It's one thing to accept risks...it's another when those risks aren't clearly spelled out, under-reported, or downplayed. It's what courts are for. It's easy to loathe the legal system, but without it, NONE of these patients would have any recourse, and it would be pick your poison and hope for the best.
This drug has many times the number of injuries and death than other birth control pills has and Bayer has known that for YEARS yet they keep selling it because it's a big money maker for them. They simply crunch the numbers and determine that a certain level of lawsuits due to the deaths and injuries ( including blindness) incurred due to their faulty drug are an acceptable price to pay in order to reap the billions the drug is bringing in.
They could care less about killing and maiming people. This drug is particularly offensive because it's target demographic is teenage girls due to it being marketed as curing PMS and acne. There is zero clinical evidence to support those claims.
This is a killer drug. Beware
Birth Control Pills are hormones at unnatural levels. All BC pills state there is a chance for blood clots. among other things. With Yaz it was also supposed to help acne ( a boon for a teen) and mood swings. But again with all medications some people get the side effects and others dont. I was on the strongest BC at the time a few years ago and experienced black outs and uncontrolled rage... I didnt sue because its in the warnings that it could happen. And simply ignoring that ( as she did because like i said ALL BC pills state there is a chance of blood clots) because you dont think you will be part of the % that experience it is on you.
Although yes, there are side effects of almost all medicines, there are also risk factors to consider. I'm quite sure that the drug companies publish those risk factors; we've all seen the warnings similar to "If you smoke/drink/take XX meds, don't take this." At 16 and presumably healthy given her dance team activities, it's unlikely this young woman fell into any at-risk group; she and her doctors had no reason to think she would develop a blood clot. So I think she has a right to sue. If I were her, I'd also be thinking about action against the doctors who told her the symptoms were her system getting used to Yaz -- after 3 months or so, symptoms usually are no longer "getting used to it" but a sign that something is seriously wrong.
I agree! I took Yaz and I'm totally fine!... Except for the fact that I'm pregnant now.. Lol. But that was my fault >< But it even has a book in with the pills that has side effect warnings. I also think it was happening before the pills because it says in the article that she was having pains and then took yaz only to have it cause more pain... So, it was probably not even completely the pill's fault.
pharmaceutical grade bc pills contain estrogen that is synthesized from pregnant mare's urine (hence the name premarin) and is extremely dangerous to take. The human body cannot remove this from the body because it is horse hormone so it accumulates causing all the side effects, blood clots, cancers, etc. Go to natural, non pharmaceutical birth control. And at the start of menopause, go to natural estrogens and progesterones. Refuse all pharmaceutical hormones. they are bad bad bad. (and how they treat the pregnant mares and their offspring is totally sickening. talk about inhumane treatment.)
The real problem is that for many years in the U.S. big drug companies have funded medical schools, thus affecting curriculum.
It is perhaps for this reason that a young woman in such severe distress, vomiting until breathing became difficult, was told by her doctors that this was just her body getting used to the medicine.
Yes, the doctors are also to blame.
@ Stephanie Jackson. You may be one of the few. If you do a search on Yaz, you will find that women experienced severe left side migraines and strokes at 30. And many many other ailments. Although blood clots are a risk for BC's, not to this extent. I too was on Yaz and it's done a job on my hair, my sensitivities to fragrances, and all other types of weird stuff. How many 27 year old's do you know that have a had a stroke b/c of some other BC or just naturally? Not many right? Maybe you didn't stay on long enough or your hormones were so far out of whack that Yaz didn't bring you to normal or past normal, in a negative way. The only positive thing Yaz did do is keep me from being all crazy come period time, lower my pre-period breakouts a little, and keep me from getting pregnant. After getting my own left side migraine (and I rarely get headaches) and after reading complaints for hours and hours, I too quit that BC and will never take another.
Maybe If She WAITED She Wouldnt Need To Sue.
Ginaa, please read the article before commenting! She took the med for severe menstrual pain, not because she wanted to have sex! Get a life!
Her doctors should have switched medications after 3 months and things didn't get better. Honestly, severe chest pains means she should have been taken off immediately. I tried about 6 different hormonal BCs before I settled on one that had very minimal side effects for me.
People with Severe menstrual pain and pelvic pain, which many experience , should try eating extreme nutrition. Sometimes the cramps may come from being malnourished. Try taking a multivitamin several days during the week and eating Lots of meat and vegetables all month long. And mainly try drinking lots of warm milk before and during the menstrual cycle almost like a gallon -warm it in a pot- I sware it zaps menstrual pain-that part of the body loves warm milk-its so good for the pelvic region- just try all these things and see.
Rose, curious your sources for your nutritional advice?
Yes, I wonder about your nutritional advise as well, if PMS is similar to menopause, I can tell you that hot flashes are exacerbated by dairy and too much meat. It's fairly well-known that eating a plant-based diet in fact can manage and nearly eliminate menopausal symptoms, it has for me.
I wouldn't recommend anyone to drink a gallon of warm milk!
Rose-you didn't just post what I read of yours did you????
You have got to be crazy to give someone that kind of advise.
The research done on new drugs is a joke . Most of the long-term studies are done in cases just like this one . Big Pharm has no idea what these drugs can do but the bottom line comes first . The hard facts are that so much money can be made before the side effects become apparent that class action suits become just a normal and expected expense . Sue the crap out of those rat bastards . They are trading your life for profit .
That is very true. All birth control pills are associated with an increased risk of blood clots. I am sorry her symptoms were so severe. I do think people just think they are not going to experience the side effects, and choose to take the risk. There are always lawyers who are willing to take on this litigation; hence increasing health care costs.
I'd be dead if I took that advice...
The body processes food like a car - the body grates on itself if there is nothing to process. If you're starving the body will eat the liver. The menstrual cycle is a process and the body is like a machine and needs something to process. You must eat warmed WHOLE milk and lots of it around the menstrual time. Not low-fat milk - the body needs that sort of fat at that time and the protein milk contains. Also try steamed or roasted veggies,not processed king and pure meat it really is nutrition. All beef,chicken what ever.
Rose - please provide evidence of this? Your body does not devour its own liver in response to starvation - and I doubt that she was starving herself anyways.
Actually, under starvation conditions, your body consumes muscle, not your liver!
Rose it just dosent make common sense that the human body has a demand for cows milk . Now if you would have said human milk ......................
Congrats on finding a natural relief for yur cramps. Calcium magnesium supplements are very soothing for the menopausal - I wonder if it would also relieve menstrual cramps? I recommend homeopathic medicine any day over menstrual cramps.
Wow! Your body does not eat your liver if you are starving! If you took any basic nutrition class you would know that. When you eat your body takes your food and takes the nutrients it needs from them and any extra is turned into adipose tissue/fat. When you haven't eaten for a while your body takes from your adipose tissue to keep you going. Most women/girls (unless they have an eating disorder) will have adipose tissue to spare.
For the liver, you may be thinking of those with severe malnutrition. However, with these diseases (Marasmus and Kwasiorkor) the liver is just effected not "eaten!"
Also, you need to have proof (other than yourself) that this works before you tell others to follow it. If they do what you tell them they could gain weight from the high fat in the milk and beef. Probably not ideal for many women out there.
i got an idea for birth control. "Keep your legs closed!" dumbass
She was on it for severe cramps! That has nothing to do with sex... Obviously you are an ignorant male who promotes abstinence. Birth control has many uses like causing less severe cramps.
It's kind of like a kick in the balls that lasts for 24 hours for days...and there is medicine to stop it. But that medicine is also used for birth control. How about I kick you in the balls and tell you to keep your legs closed rather than go on birth control. See how you like it then.
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How about ..."keep your penis inside your pants!" instead? It takes two to tango, you know, and besides, like others have pointed out, this was for cramps.
We should educate our daughters to think of their bodies as precious, and to save themselves as a gift for their husband. We should educate our sons to think of their bodies as precious, and to save themselves as a gift to their wife. All women need to rethink birth control pills - their complications are numerous, and the fequency of blood clots with regards to birth control pills is very high, particularly if you also smoke. They are a poor choice for severe menstrual cramps.
Okay? That's one way birth control is used, but it can also be used for those with heavy menstruation(bleeding). Perhaps you should think before you speech next time? I definitely agree that if you don't want to get pregnant then "Keep your legs closed," but she wasn't on it for that. It can also, as I said, be used for those with heavy menstruation or severe cramps!
Reading comprehension not working for you today, Alex?
Alex Torres - Watch what you say to others and be respectfully!
I had bilateral pulmonary embolisms (blood clots in both lungs) twice. Not because of birth control; but due to a clotting disorder. This young woman needs to know life goes on. Medication and her body will either take care and get rid of the blood clot or the blood clot will become part of the vein or artery over time and cause no problem. Just keep going. Fight the fatigue and the pain. It will get better.
Good Lord! I had severe cramps & pelvic pain when I was a teenager, so much so I had to leave school once and month and take Darvon to call asleep! It wasn't until I went to a nutritionist who told me to increase my calcium intake (and that it would take about 3 months to see the effects), that I finally found relief. Ladies, birth control pills are POISON. If that's the best we can do for women and their health, leave me out of it!
I'm curious if her doctors ruled out endometriosis. There is surgery for it. I know birth control pills are used after surgery to help prevent endometriosis from coming back. Every surgery has its risks, but if her problem was actually endometriosis, the risks were most likely less than what she has experienced from Yaz. I'm sorry she has to deal with this.
sfs- There is no cure of endometriosis. Surgery can help for a small about of time but it will always come back. I have delt with it for over 10 years now. BC can sometimes help with the amount of tissue that grows which in return can help with some pain. That is why they have me on BC. But it never goes away. Also, it is hard to diagnose. The only way they can make sure you have it is to open you up. Other wise they are just hoping and guessing that is what you have. Also, they could of looked into Polycystic Ovarian Syndrom. A lot of the time these two go hand in hand.
Um, BC is not poison. I'm 19, taken it since I was 15 without problem. I need it for my own issues with my flow, it's heavy and painful. Do not speak of what you do not know.
Becky, please do not take BC pills for more than 5 years - the manufacturers themselves recommend this.
You are blessed with youth and health now. It may seem an impossibly long time from now, but it is women in their 30s (who are also young!) who are experiencing the long term effects of BC pills by suffering the ever skyrocketing rates of breast cancer.
Poison is poison, whether it hurts you immediately, or 15 or 20 years from now.
Becky, seeing how you are only 19, it would appear that you don't know much about long term effects. Honey BC is poison. It does all types of nasty unnatural things to women's bodies. Heard it from several a nurse (w/nothing to gain might I add)... and others
Oh please, poison, really? Yes, it CAN have side effects, but poison?? I'm 40, I was put on BC at 14 (also because of very painful menstruation), and I stopped taking it at 37, because we were planning on having kids. Now, 2 kids later, I'm using a different type of BC, but only because I know I won't remember taking the pill every day at the same time.... I was on it for over 20 years, with ZERO issues or side effects. The pill (mine wasn't Yaz, btw, I'm talking in general) may not work for everybody, and a small number of people may have negative side effects, but for the vast majority, it's just fine. Let's not overreact here.
No kidding---they have scholarships for a dance team totaling 200,000? Waste of money isn't it?
Tuition, room and board and books. Yes that can eat up $50,000 a year and then some to a university like Vanderbuilt. And if you read the article, she planned to use the dance scholarship to get a degree in business. Just like a football player who actually uses his athletic scholarship to get a degree. (Not all plan on the NFL, some use those scholarships for real degrees for non-football careers.)
Alot of good people that never would have had the resourses to attend universities got educated through scholarships .
FWIW, Vandy does not give full ride scholarships for dance team. Dance team shares in the base $200.00 stipend that goes to the marching band members (that can increase depending on the marching band's fundraiser, as the dance team is tied to the university bands). Fantasy is no help in damages claims. I wish the young lady well, but this claim is simply untrue.
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thats why i use the ring! i tried the pill and through up i love the ring
@MyOreos- I personally know two people who had problems with the ring; one directly and the other indirectly. My sister used the ring and had serious problems with it and had to have it removed. She vowed never to use it again and she didn't. The other person was a co-worker of mine whose sister also experienced serious problems. The ring became embedded into her skin and caused unbearable discomfort; the only way for it to be removed was through surgery. What works for one person will not work for another.
I took birth control for several years, but later started having severe PMS symptoms. It was awful. I have been feeling a lot better since I stopped. Luckily I was not taking this drug. All meds have side effects and doctors and patients ave to be careful. I recently got a prescription for a medication which contains ingredients I have been allergic to in the past. Apparently I am no longer or it was a false alarm since it wasn't until I went to a specialist that he commented on it wondering why I was taking it since according to my chart I am allergic. The Pharmacy and doctor who prescribed it didn't notice.
In other news, unwanted pregnancy have caused countless teens to miss parts of high school, put off going to college and not pursue dreams of opening boutique shops.
As Sarah B. said, all medications come with an inherent risk of adverse reactions. And while it is terrible this young woman has had to go through this, I'm going to agree with the FDA that the benefits outweigh the risks. This type of sensational reporting drives me crazy.
The commercials were changed to include all the side effects.
If I remember correctly, they ranged from headache to lethal heart attack.
People need to understand that everything that a human being consumes chemically alters their body in some way, shape, or form. They also need to remember that every human being is different.
I don't think this girl has a legal argument. All the potential side effects are listed in/on the commercials, the web site, and on the packaging. It was her choice to take them.
I think she has a legal argument with the doctors who dismissed her concerns as just her body needing to get used to the medicine.
Why does Big Pharma keep getting away with producing crap that hurts and even kills people? Note that YAZ (manufactured by Bayer) used to be called Yasmin, and was prescribed for birth control and menstrual problems. The FDA made them change the formula (to be less potent), pay for months of commercials and ads telling women who took it that it "may" have been dangerous. (SEVEN times the risk of clots and strokes than other birth control.) Then they changed the name to sell it again, with with similar results. Incredible.
bingo!
You are right on target. Prior to the 1990's Big Pharma did not do research on women as the funding for research did not require gender particular results. It wasn't until funding for the research was threatened to be withheld byCongress (thank you Diane Feinstein) the medical corporations agreed to have females included in the studies.
The inaccurate (to get approval) reports, followed by the fast track approval by government, the trendy marketing, especially on TV and in teen magazines for birth control must be halted. But more importantly, more studies and research must be completed before all medications can be released.
Bayer Pharmaceuticals one of our nations largest pharmaceutical companies knew that YAZ could cause blood clots but hid these findings from the FDA.
Yet our Republican congressional leaders still want to relax government regulations on large companies; just think what they could get away with then, if that ever happened.
No they did not hide that from the FDA. See the comment above yours...
A family member took Yaz and the risk of blood clots was very clearly stated on the packaging. There was no question about it.
i meant threw** up
The law firms are getting their class action lawsuits ready & looking for participants to make some big money from
I feel bad for Carl Yastrzemski.
GMTA. I was just about to comment that I couldn't figure out how an old Boston Red Sox player could have given this poor girl a blood clot.
Basically, it's a b**tch to be a woman and deal with birth control. I remember it, I'm past all that now, but I feel for young women who have the choice of taking drugs that make them sick and mess with their bodies' rhythms, or risking pregnancy which you do even with other forms of birth control. They should make a birth control device for men so they can share the burden.
Really?
They do make birth control for men. They are called condoms...
Couldnt agree more. Condoms are the only MALE choice and have been for CENTURIES. I've asked more than my share of girlfriends to get OFF the pill because I could see it making them "different". I'd rather put on a jim-hat before watching a friend alter their biochemistry to the point of hospitalization.
Amen!
Besides condoms? Genius?
Gotta luv reading the stupidity of American consumers. There are HUNDREDS of birth control methods on the market. How about instead of finding one that works, lets go with the one that gives us the most problems. Because, of course, we are FORCED to use whatever product causes us the most return visits to the doctor, right? Someone has to make that loot! I'm SORRY for what happened to this one (among many) woman (child) and sad that it will happen over and over again with a slew of other legal medications. MEANWHILE, there are people succumbing to the munchies while solving issues related to joint pain, cancer, AIDS (so name a few), via the use of illegal "medications". Ask yourself, honestly, WHO has your best interest at heart?
You can never get used to something thats poisoning you. I see a lot of people on multiple medications getting crazy sick and doctors just give them more meds and that just makes them sicker. Its one way to guarantee that big pharma will have customers for life (as long as these people have health insurance that is.)
like kevin truedeau says the medical industry isnt in business to cure only to treat by giving newer and more drugs to treat they keep u sick and get richer to join more country clubs and do less for their patients i went to see my doc for a referral to a podiatrist he immediately ordered a full lab screen i didnt need and i got stuck with a 830.00 lab bill i refused to pay let him pay it he ordered it with out my consent and he never even talked to me or looked at my feet neither did the podiatrist just gave me inserts for my shoes that made my feet hurt worse the poor girl has every legal right and definitely shud sue the pharm and the doc for malfeasance and incompetance if not malpractice as they inflicted intentional harm knowing full well the possible side effects before they prescribed it u cant just buy it off the shelf her doctor is to blame for not following up after prescribing to determine the effects on her
i hate doctors i never did get report of the results for my unnecessary lab screen they are all vultures
Another example that the FDA has fallen asleep at the wheel a decade, or more ago. Really sad, how we push pills onto our society misleading the unsuspecting souls that the benefits outweigh the risks. When will learn that they are all poison to our bodies. True - lifesavers and quality-of-life improvers for a few, but we've simply become a pill-popping society, more so than ever, trusting our lives to drug companies, the FDA, doctors and simply not caring about the long-term affects.
Pain, depression, impotence, weight-gain, etc. are all part of life. You can't cheat your way out of it with chemicals and hormones. There are more natural ways to deal with these discomforts. And if not, suck it up, because the easy way out may have a higher price to pay.
They didn't fall asleep at the wheel. Falling asleep at the wheel implies neglect and these types of "mistakes" happen far to often to be accidental.
Big pharma is IN BED with the FDA. The FDA's job is not to put warning labels on dangerous products its job is to KEEP DANGEROUS PRODUCTS OFFFFFF THE MARKET! But because a pharma company puts a lot of money into developing the drug/chemical it's far too expensive to just throw it out and start from scratch soooooo there good buddies at the FDA give it the stamp of approval. And in a slimy act to try to save face they include the stipulation that you must include "Most" side effects and if anything bad happens we'll demand you put the rest of the side effects on the label and oh don't worry if we make you pull it from the market you can put it back on the market with a different name.
Although i am generally against frivolous lawsuits the article make it clear the risk of blood clots was NOT a side effect listed on the label so you A-holes out there saying "ohhhh they shouldn't sue they were stupid and didn't read the label" I say to you, You are stupid and you didn't read or perhaps did not comprehend the article .... or you are one of those commenters for hire sent by big pharma to get the on line buzz spinning in your direction ....
Either way the issue here is not Lawsuits It's the FDA Not doing there friggin job due to corruption. Heartless and Greedy.
Treefense, as I said above, a family member of mine took Yaz, and the risk of blood clots WAS clearly mentioned as a possible side effect on the label. There was no question about it.
There was a time in our history when purveyors of patent medicines were considered quacks. Now those who manufacture and sell patent medicines fund medical schools and write the very textbooks used to train doctors. Of course doctors push pills! That's what they are trained to do. The only thing doctors do right any more is emergent care. They can set bones and stop bleeding. But their track record for curing disease is remarkably poor. They can't even agree (without the statin manufacturers input) what levels of cholesterol are good and what are bad.
I agree, this is a stated possible side effect for any birth control pill. Now the idiot doctors, they should be sued.
Strange you never hear about the anxiety attacks and problems people that took Depo Provera had. The side effects from that birth control drug are not listed and it took me years to get a doctor to say my friends and I weren't crazy connecting the two.
You said "I agree, this is a stated possible side effect for any birth control pill. Now the idiot doctors, they should be sued."
What you don't seem to understand is that the well known rate of deaths and hideous injuries ( including blindness) for this particular drug are several times the rate of other long perscribed birth control pills. They are not at all the same thing.
If anything this should serve as an example of how corporations can knowingly kill people and no one goes to jail.
I was on Depo, but I had the opposite effect with my emotions. The BC pills I was on before made me mentally crazy, so much so it was destroying my personal life and career. I switched to Depo and I got so much relief! I felt better, I was more even tempered and pleasant to be around. However, I gained weight with the Depo. A lot of weight, about 40 lbs or so. Not only that, but it was depleting calcium from my bones so I was venturing into osteoperosis at 29! I quit the Depo, and within 4 weeks or so I lost about 30 lbs of the 40 lbs. I was also able to reverse the calcium depletion. So, while I loved it for keeping me sane, I didn't like what it was doing to the rest of my body. I'm now on a low-dose BC pill that is working fine for me, at least for now.
This is why something as powerful as birthcontrol pills should be a last resort for non-lifethreatening things like regulating periods, reducing cramps, acne, etc. It is powerful and has the potential for serious side effects. For non-sexually active girls, if there is a less dangerous treatment, try that first. Plus for many girls, irregular periods tend to gradually regulate themselves within just a few years. Too many doctors fail to give safer and more natural treatments a chance, not just with birth contol pills, but with many other prescriptions. Save prescriptions with serious side effects for health problems that are worth the risk.
I feel for her, but it wouldn't be the only alternative to put her faith in God if she and her parents not put total faith in the doctors and the drug companies that buy them to prescribe worthless medicine.
Funny, always some idiot wants to let a myth God handle it,
Troll alert
@Jerr72 If you don't believe in God FINE but don't lash out at those who do. People are entitled to there beliefs! I'm not happy with what you said, but I'm not calling you and idiot for not believing in him. There was once a time when people could disagree with each other but still be kind to them. Why do we now have to bring people down who hold to different beliefs?
Drugs aren't the answer.
Most birth control pills are associated with an increased risk of blood clotting, especially those which contain 3rd generation progestins called drospirenone, such as Yaz and Nuvaring. That being said, the cause of in appropriate blood clotting is usually multifactorial.