I gave up contraception after the pill gave me blood clots in four months: Huffington Post writer
- Fri Aug 02, 2013 13:19 EST
- Tags: Birth Control, Contraception
- August 2, 2013
- (LifeSiteNews.com) – A young journalism student has written a candid account revealing that she eventually gave up using birth control after after she developed life-threatening blood clots in her legs and lungs after just four months’ use of the birth control pill.
“I started taking birth control pills in January 2011. By May of that year, my doctor discovered that a blood clot had developed in my right leg and spread to my lungs,” wrote Jamie Hergenrader in an article published in the Huffington Post.
Jamie Hergenrader
“The pain in my hip, the swelling of my entire right leg and the breathing difficulty I experienced should’ve scared me enough to check it out,” she remarked, but she rationalized away her symptoms.
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