Dangerous Drug and Recall News

As the birth control market continues to expand for many reasons, more women than ever before are searching for help to prevent unwanted pregnancies.  For many years, their options were limited, but in recent years, a plethora of choices hit the market.  One of the leading pharmaceutical companies, Bayer Healthcare, got into the fray with their product known as Yasmin.

Yasmin is a prescription drug that’s unique in terms of how it works inside the woman’s reproductive system.  In essence, it performs two tasks – it prevents ovulation and it prompts slight changes in the woman’s uterus and cervix.  Basically, if an egg is somehow fertilized despite the presence of the medication, it will not be able to attach to the uterine wall as most fertilized eggs do before they begin to expand and grow.  For a time, Yasmin produced positive results.

However, Yasmin eventually began to be linked to serious side effects, and these included:

• Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
• Heart attacks
• Strokes
• Kidney damage
• Pulmonary embolisms

The Yasmin side effects that seem to be most prevalent are somewhat related, and they are DVT and pulmonary embolisms.  The reason they are related is because one leads to another in many instances.  DVT is a condition whereby a blood clot forms deep inside the leg or sometimes the arm.  When these clots break off and make their way into the circulatory system, they often make their way into the lungs and attach to the tissue there, forming another clot.

Blood clots in the lungs are known as pulmonary embolisms.  Many of these clots are quite small and can be managed, but some grow quickly or are not caught early in their development.  As a result, pulmonary embolisms that are not properly and promptly treated can be deadly for the patient.  Clearly, these are dangerous conditions that can arise in otherwise-healthy women.

The FDA responded by announcing that Yasmin would be required to carry a “Black Box Warning” on all labels of the medication, and these warnings were meant to clearly warn anyone who sees them of the dangers involved.  Yasmin has not yet been recalled, which means that those consumers who have been injured by this medication need to find recourse by way of filing a Yasmin lawsuit.

If this has happened to you or someone you love, you need to look into taking the same action.  All you need to do is bring any information that pertains to your history of use of Yasmin, and your defective drugs attorney will be able to help you determine if filing a civil claim is an advisable step for you to take.  Contact an attorney today to schedule a consultation and to get this process started.