Posted on 06/11/2013 12:24:16 PM PDT by rickmichaels
At least 24 Canadian women taking Yaz and Yasmin birth control pills died from possible adverse reactions to the drugs since 2007.
A search of Health Canada's adverse reaction database shows that since it came to market, 15 women on Yasmin and nine on Yaz have died, prompting their doctors to report a possible link to the extremely popular birth control pills.
The most common causes of death associated with the pills were blood clots.
While blood clots are listed as a potential side-effect for all hormonal birth control, especially for smokers and older women, the fatalities for Yaz and Yasmin are particularly high. Similar searches for Alesse pills and the Nuvaring found four and two deaths, respectively.
What's more, eight of the Yasmin deaths were women and girls under 20, including two 14-year-olds.
This isn't the first time the brands have come under fire. A 2011 Health Canada review found they had three times the risk of blood clots compared with other oral contraceptives.
Unlike other birth controls, Yaz and Yasmin contain the hormone drospirenone.
The U.S. Federal Drug Administration says drospirenone-based contraceptives increase blood clot risk by 74%.
A group of Canadians has launched a class-action lawsuit against the pharmaceutical company Bayer, which makes the pills.
The two brands have racked up more than 10,000 lawsuits south of the border.
A statement on Bayer's website reads: "Bayer's oral contraceptives have been and continue to be extensively studied worldwide and for most healthy women of reproductive age, the benefits ... will outweigh the risks when used as directed."
UN Agenda 21 says there are too many peasants on planet earth and five or six billion of them must be eliminated at any cost.
No wonder some ambulance chaser is on my TV trolling for women who took this every fifteen minutes.
Bayer's Baycol for Cholesterol also caused deaths. They took it off the market. I wonder what's up with Bayer?
My granddaughter was put on Yaz to get her regulated. Thank goodness she quit taking it right away.
“The Wages of Sin is death” ~ The Gods of the Copybook Headings ~ Kipling
Dirty little secret with about any type of’the pill’ is that it causes a very INCREASED risk of blot clots, especially in women with even a mild genetic predisposition to blood clots, factor 2, factor 5, etc. But very little is ever said about this....war on women indeed.
I read it too fast, thought it said “yasmine bleeth”. Damn.
Yep. Men and boys aren't encouraged to pump themselves full of harmful chemicals so they can be objects of use.
Can you say *Viagra*?
Do these drug companies really test these drugs?
Point well taken. Hadn’t thought of viagra. Please allow me to rephrase: Do we encourage our men and boys to pump themselves full of class 1 carcinogens so they can be objects of use? Are there drugs we know to be harmful that we’re encouraging our boys to take without parental consent? Or that we’re working to make available to them at no cost?
Why do women do this? Why do they allow themselves to be guinea pigs for Planned Parenthood and Big Pharma?
Abstinence is so easy for young women. And so safe.
Blood clots from contraceptives are also prevalent in women with Type A blood.
This has been known for 40 years now. Publication of the studies has been suppressed.
There are some conditions that the pill helps regulate, or at least lessen the symptoms of fairly well. PCOS being one of them, which it is estimates thatapprox. 10% of women have. Among other things PCOS can cause absent or very irregularly menstruation, which in turn can cause uterine cancer.
There are many natural treatments for that condition, and I would recommend that young women look into them before subjecting themselves to potentially life-threatening medications.
And, like not all women have a problem on the pill, not all women respond to natural cures.
That said, I agree, however, it is exceedingly difficult to know where to begin looking for those natural cures. A gynecologist sure isn’t going to discuss them with you.
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