Yaz And Yasmin DVT: The Threat Of Wandering Blood Clots

Women suffering from blood clot and other problems have looked at their legal options including Yasmin lawsuits. Ocella, Yaz and Yasmin deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is characterized by blood clots that form within deep veins (typically, in the legs). Both oral contraceptives combine estrogen with a synthetic hormone called drospirenone. Recent studies have shown the combination introduces a sharp increase in the risk of abnormal blood clots. When these clots form within deep veins, they can potentially cause pulmonary embolism, stroke, and heart attack. Please contact us for more information regarding Yaz class action lawsuit multidistrict litigation.

As long as the blood clots caused by Yaz and Yasmin remain at their original site, they are relatively benign. You may experience warmth, swelling, and discomfort in the area due to the reduced circulation, but the clots do not present an immediate danger. However, they can become detached and travel with your bloodstream toward your heart. This is how many of the most serious side effects of Yasmin and Yaz birth control are triggered.

Where Yaz/Yasmin Deep Vein Thrombosis Occurs

Yaz and Yasmin DVT usually occurs within the deep veins of your lower extremities. Below your knee, blood clots can form within the peroneal, posterior tibial, or anterior tibial arteries. Within your thighs, blood clots can form within the superficial, deep, and common femoral arteries. They can also form within the popliteal, external iliac, and common iliac arteries.

Of these deep veins, the most common sites of Yasmin and Yaz DVT are the lower thighs (specifically, the superficial femoral and popliteal arteries) and the mid-calves (posterior tibial artery).

Why DVT Blood Clots Break Away

Each of the deep veins in your legs is buried within muscles, which contract whenever you move your legs. The contractions are critical for sending oxygen-poor blood from your lower extremities back to your heart and lungs. Unfortunately, they can also dislodge blood clots that have formed within the deep veins.

Once clots have broken away from their respective sites, the flow of your blood carries them toward your inferior vena cava. This is the main passageway toward your heart. By the time wandering clots (called emboli) flow through your vena cava, they pose a risk of reaching and clogging major arteries.

Blood Clots In The Lungs, Heart, And Brain

Clots that have passed through your vena cava can approach arteries that supply blood to your lungs, heart, and brain. For example, your pulmonary arteries deliver deoxygenated blood to your lungs; your coronary arteries bring blood to your heart; and your carotid arteries are responsible for supplying blood to your brain.

Yasmin and Yaz blood clots that have traveled to these arteries can form a blockage in them. If an embolus (i.e. traveling clot) blocks one of your pulmonary arteries, you might experience pulmonary embolism. A blockage in a coronary artery can result in a heart attack. If a blood clot reaches a carotid artery, you might suffer stroke.

These three events are potentially life-threatening. And all three are possible side effects of using Yasmin and Yaz birth control.

Should You File A Yaz/Yasmin Lawsuit?

Healthy women who have no history of abnormal blood clots have experienced clotting after using Yaz and Yasmin oral contraceptives. As noted earlier, the combination of estrogen and drospirenone contained within these fourth-generation birth control pills significantly raises the risk of clotting. Taking them can cause DVT, which might trigger the dangerous side effects described above.

If you have suffered abnormal blood clots, DVT, pulmonary embolism, heart attack, or stroke after taking these oral contraceptives, contact a Yaz class action attorney. You may have the right to file a lawsuit and receive the compensation you deserve.