Woman claims Yaz/Yasmin/Ocella caused her stroke

February 3rd, 2010 by Jennifer Walker-Journey

bcpills 100x100 Woman claims Yaz/Yasmin/Ocella caused her strokeFrom April 2009 until July 2009, Adrienne Cechura of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, took Ocella, the generic band of the oral contraceptive known by the brand names Yaz or Yasmin. Yaz is the top-selling birth control pill in the United States, generating more than $600 million in sales. The pill offers a different formula than typical birth control pills. It contains drospirenone, a diuretic. The combination drospirenone and ethinyl estradiol is touted as a treatment for acne and premenstrual dysphoric disorder, or PMDD, a premenstrual condition marked by severe emotional and physical symptoms.

What Adrienne didn’t know was that while the combination birth control pill had benefits, it also increased users’ risk of serious side effects such as heart attack, cardiac arrhythmias, stroke, pulmonary embolism, blood clots, kidney failure, seizures, deep vein thrombosis, gallbladder disease, hepaic adenomas and sudden death. Adrienne believes Ocella caused her to suffer from a stroke and other serious side effects. She claims it also left her at an increased risk of developing additional side effects such as blood clots in the deep veins and lungs.

On December 28, 2009, Adrienne and her husband Kenneth, filed a lawsuit against Bayer HealthCare, the manufacturer of Yaz, and other manufacturers and distributors, seeking $75,000 from each defendant, as well as punitive damages and compensation for medical care, pain, suffering, and mental anguish.

Adrienne’s lawsuit is one of hundreds from women who say they have suffered serious side effects from Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reports that between 2004 and 2008, more than 50 deaths have been attributed to the drugs.

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  • 17 years old
    This solves many, many questions for me. December 23, 2009 my perfectly healthy 17 year old child had her gallbladder removed. She was a top athlete and slated to go to a division 1 college to play vball on full scholarship and began to have abdominal pain, vomiting, nausea and began to loose a rapid amount of weight. She lost 32 lbs by the time all was said and done.
    She took yaz from May 09 to August 09 and began to have abdominal pains for three months prior to removal. She spent 9 days in the hospital, underwent MANY painful tests, missed school, had to stop playing vball and lost every bit of muscle mass she had built up as a top vball player. After 9 day hospital stay they could find nothing wrong so I took her to a surgeon convinced it was her gallbladder. 2 days later she was in surgery. Surgeon said gallbladder had been inflammed and bad for a while ( approx 6 months and time period she was on Yaz) and when he took it out the ducts began to spill out "sludge" that he had to clean out. Pathology report found that gallbladder had chronic inflammation.
    While on yaz she kept having stomach pains, nausea, would vomit so we switched her to another. Before herr surgery and about 2 weeks before gallbladder was removed she began to urinate brown sludge that stopped the day her gallbladder was removed.
    During her hospital stay she saw numerous specialists and noone could come up with a reason behind why a healthy, thriving 17 year old was having such issues and when gallbladder was determined to be the problem the doctors were all stumped as to WHY a 17 year old had to have it removed and WHY it went bad.
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