Yaz On Trial : Yaz Birth Control Lawsuit : Info on Yasmin & Ocella Side Effects

California Yaz Lawyer A. J. De Bartolomeo and one of her Yaz clients, Alyssa, were featured in Los Angeles news story aired on CBS 2 and KCAL 9 this week talking about the potentially life-threatening side effects of Yaz. Alyssa was just 17 years old when she suffered a bilateral pulmonary embolism after taking Yasmin to treat a cyst.

Los Angeles CBS 2 and KCAL 9: Yaz Pulmonary Embolism Victim and Yasmin Lawsuits

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Yaz On Trial author and California Yasmin Attorney Mike Danko and client, Susan, were featured by Sacramento’s CBS 13 and CW 31 news stations, discussing the Yaz lawsuits and the potentially life-threatening side effects of this birth control pill. Susan was the happily married mother of three year old twins when she began taking Yaz. She took Yaz for about a month when she suffered a Yaz stroke which changed her life forever. She shares her experience in the video below, and as the story reports “while Susan can't get her old life back, she says she can warn women not to risk their lives.”

Sacramento CBS 13 and CW 31: California Yaz Stroke Victim and Yasmin Lawsuits

Susan also shared her Yaz stroke experience in another news story in late 2009.
 

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Claudia Coffey of Fox 5 in Washington D.C. just reported on a story about another young woman, Jessica, who suffered from a blood clot in her leg after taking Yaz. Jessica says that her leg swelled up about twice its normal size and started turning purple. She was in the ICU for three days and in the hospital for six days. The story also mentions the FDA warning letter for Yaz regarding possible quality control problems in a factory in Germany. (You may remember that this is not the first time the FDA has warned the makers of Yaz.) Ms. Coffey also reported that the FDA sent her an email confirming that they are aware of adverse event reports with Yaz, but that they are unable to disclose whether specific label negotiations to the medication are being conducted.

Watch the Fox 5 news story: Locals Join Lawsuit Against Bayer's Yaz

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I just read a story that aired in Tennessee on NewsChannel 5 about a woman named Leah. Leah was a twenty year old student at Tennessee Tech and on her way to becoming a nurse when, last January, her college roommate discovered her passed out in the shower. Leah’s roommate called 911 and told them that she was pale and breathing heavily. Leah woke up and spoke to her mom over the phone, telling her that “she was scared, and that she was tingling all over.” Less than an hour later, Leah passed away.

Ultimately, it was discovered that Leah died of a pulmonary embolism (a blood clot in her lung). When Leah’s family asked how this could have happened to a healthy twenty year old woman, an emergency room doctor informed them that the birth control pill Leah started taking six months before, Yaz, could have caused the blood clot.

Leah’s family is devastated by the loss of their daughter. "She didn't have to die. She didn't have to die because of a pill," said Leah’s mother.

Not wanting her daughter’s death to have occurred in vain, Leah’s mother is determined to warn others about the drug and the serious potential side effects of taking Yaz.

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There are now over 400 lawsuits pending against the makers of Yaz, and it is anticipated that thousands more will be filed in the future. Behind each of these lawsuits is a story of a woman who suffered a serious injury after taking Yaz, many of whom will be living with the side effects of their injuries for the rest of their lives.

Bayer Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of Yaz, would have a hard time denying that California Yaz user Susan Galinis’s life has changed forever. Susan, the mother of twins, suffered a stroke one month after she began taking Yaz. The stroke caused her permanent and severe brain damage, fundamentally changing her life and the lives of her family forever. There is also Katie, a Pennsylvania Yaz user who was just 15 years old when she suffered a pulmonary embolism while taking Yaz. Katie was forced to undergo extensive surgery when doctors found that she had two blood clots, one in each pulmonary artery. Another woman, Ohio Yaz user Anne Marie Eakins also developed blood clots in both lungs after taking Yaz, resulting in her losing partial use of her right lung. Anne, like many of the other women we have spoken with, asked her doctor about Yaz after seeing the commercials. “To be perfectly honest,” she said, “ I asked my doctor about Yaz because I had seen the commercial and it mentioned helping control your period symptoms and acne, which was very attractive to me… I didn’t think it was going to be worse than any other pill.”

Then there are the thousands of women who have suffered gallbladder problems, such as one young woman who at just 22 years old when she began suffering gallbladder attacks while taking Yaz. She, like many Yaz users, was young, healthy and had no prior or family history of gallbladder problems; yet, after taking Yaz, she developed gallbladder attacks so severe that she had to undergo surgery to have her gallbladder removed.

These stories are just glimpses of the impact Yaz has had on women's lives. As more lawsuits are filed and the word spreads, more women’s stories will be heard.

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Many of our clients have suffered blood clot injuries after taking Yaz, Yasmin or Ocella. One of the most serious blood clot injuries is “deep vein thrombosis” – also known as “DVT” – which is when a blood clot forms in the veins, usually the legs. If not treated in time, a DVT can lead to other serious health problems such as a pulmonary embolism or a stroke. Part of the controversy surrounding Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella is that recent medical studies have found that the synthetic hormone contained in these birth control pills known as drospirenone is associated with a significantly higher risk of patients developing DVT and other related health problems.

Recently Baltimore’s local NBC news station ran a story about how hospitals and doctors are treating people who have been diagnosed with a DVT or related injuries:

NBC Baltimore (WBAL): Treating Deep Vein Thrombosis

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One of the most impressive things we’ve found while learning more about Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella, are the number of women who are talking about their experiences with these birth control pills. In spite of everything these women and their families have been through, they are getting out there, speaking out on forums, blogs and social networking websites to let other women know about their experiences on Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella and some of the side effects they have suffered. Many of these women have experienced blood clots, strokes, pulmonary emboli, gallbladder problems and other serious health complications.

Check out some of these forums:

Yasmin Survivors Forum, Facebook: I am a Yaz Survivor, Yaz Forum

Women aren’t just talking about their experiences – they are taking action. Dozens of lawsuits have been filed on behalf of women who suffered severe side-effects after taking Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella, and these women plan on holding the makers of these drugs accountable.

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The  San Francisco Daily Journal ran a front-page story on the Yaz cases recently, and by doing so helped to get the word out about the dangers of Yaz and Yasmin.

Susan Galinis discussed her stroke and the effect it has had on her family.  Mike Danko was quoted concerning the latest on the Yaz lawsuits generally, and Galinis' lawsuit in particular.  Other Yaz lawyers were interviewed as well.

Bayer refused to comment on Susan's lawsuit.

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Susan, a client of ours, was recently interviewed by a local news agency. As you will see Susan suffered a stroke a month after she started taking Yaz. Needless to say, Susan’s life has been forever changed.  She asked us to put her story out there so other women would know what she went through after taking Yaz.

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