Yaz Stroke Side Effects

by Steve Fields on September 4th, 2009

What is A Stroke?

A Yaz stroke occurs when the blood supply to part of the brain is suddenly interrupted or when a blood vessel in the brain bursts, allowing blood into the spaces surrounding brain cells. Brain cells die when they are prevented from receiving oxygen and nutrients from the blood or there is sudden bleeding around the brain.

The symptoms of a stroke include sudden numbness or weakness, especially on one side of the body; sudden confusion or trouble speaking or understanding speech; sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes; sudden trouble with walking, dizziness, or loss of balance or coordination; or sudden severe headache with no known cause.

There are two forms of stroke:

• ischemic – blockage of a blood vessel supplying the brain
• hemorrhagic – bleeding into or around the brain.

Stroke Treatment

Generally there are three treatment stages for stroke: prevention, therapy immediately after the stroke, and post-stroke rehabilitation. Therapies to prevent a first or recurrent stroke are based on treating an individual’s underlying risk factors for stroke, such as hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and diabetes. Acute stroke therapies attempt to stop a stroke while it is happening by quickly dissolving the blood clot causing an ischemic stroke or by stopping the bleeding of a hemorrhagic stroke. Post-stroke rehabilitation helps patients overcome disabilities that result from stroke damage. Medication or drug therapy is the most common treatment for stroke. The most popular medications used to prevent or treat stroke are antithrombotics (antiplatelet agents and anticoagulants) and thrombolytics.

What is the prognosis?

Although stroke immediately occurs the brain, it can affect the entire body. A frequent disability caused by a stroke is complete paralysis on one side of the body, called hemiplegia. A related disability that is not as debilitating as paralysis is one-sided weakness or hemiparesis. A Yaz stroke risk may also lead to problems with thinking, awareness, attention, learning, judgment, and memory. Patients surviving strokes often have difficulties understanding or forming speech. A stroke can lead to emotional problems. Stroke patients may have difficulty controlling their emotions or may express inappropriate emotions. Many stroke patients experience depression. Stroke survivors may also have numbness or strange sensations. The pain is often worse in the hands and feet and is made worse by movement and temperature changes, especially cold temperatures. Many women who have suffered Yaz strokes continue have problems with problems and side effects long after their initial recovery.

People that have had a stroke will frequently have another; about 25 percent of people who recover from their first stroke will have another stroke within 5 years.

If you developed a blood clot, including deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or pulmonary embolism or had Yaz and strokes you may have important legal rights and may want to contact a law firm to discuss your options.

Fields Law Firm is currently representing women throughout the United States in a Yaz lawsuit who have developed a blood clot or suffered from a stroke while using Yaz birth control. There is never any cost or obligation to talk to a Yaz attorney who can help answer your questions. All clients are individually represented in filing a claim and there are never any expenses or legal fees unless you receive compensation for your injuries.