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Birth Control: Bitter Pill
KTLA News
November 9, 2009
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LOS ANGELES -- "I woke up and I couldn't breathe. The pain was unimaginable. I can't even describe it."
Christine Navarro, 22, is recalling the worst night of her life. "It felt like someone was squishing my lung, and pushing on the entire left side of my body."
And Robyn Dunn, a 31 year-old ultra-marathoner, has a similar memory. "I was having a lot of anxiety, out of breath, and I knew something was wrong, and that I should stop that race. And I've never dropped out of any race in my entire life."
Within the past year both Robyn and Christine were rushed to the hospital with life-threatening blood clots. At the time, Christine was taking the 'Yaz' birth control pill. Robyn was taking its sister birth control drug, Yazmin. Both young, athletic women blame their birth control for their brushes with death.
"One of the clots in my left lung just settled in the wrong place," Robyn recalls. "I experienced excruciating pain that night, and I was awake all night just wondering if I was going to die."
Robyn begins to cry, welling up with emotion as she recounts her story to KTLA's Victoria Recano. "I couldn't sleep the whole five nights I was in the hospital, wondering what my future was gonna be like. If I was going to be able to see my family again..." Robyn's quavering voice trails off.
It's common knowledge that all women's oral contraceptives carry a percentage risk of health complications. But attorneys for Robyn and Christine contend that Yaz and Yazmin, from Bayer, carry a greater risk.
