What is A Stroke?
A stroke commonly happens when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted (perhaps by a clot), or when a blood vessel in the brain bursts, causing blood to surround the brain. Brain cells die when they are hindered from receiving oxygen and nutrients from the blood or when there is sudden bleeding around the brain. It has been proven that Yaz is known to cause strokes.

Indications of stroke include sudden numbness or weakness, mainly on one side of the body; sudden confusion combined with trouble speaking or understanding speech; sudden problems seeing in one or both eyes; trouble walking accompanied by dizziness, or loss of balance or coordination; or a sudden severe headache with no known cause.

There are two types of stroke:
• ischemic – an interruption of blood supply to the brain.
• hemorrhagic – due to a rupture in a blood vessel.

Stroke Treatment
Treatment phases can generally be broken into three stages: prevention, therapy immediately after the stroke, and post-stroke rehabilitation. An individual's underlying risk factors for stroke determine what therapies need to be utilized to aid in prevention or in repetitive strokes. Such risk factors could be hypertension, atrial fibrillation and diabetes. Acute stroke therapies try to contain a stroke while it is happening by quickly dissolving the blood clot causing the ischemic stroke, or by stopping the bleeding of a hemorrhagic stroke. Patients may also need post-stroke rehabilitation to help defeat disabilities and damages that may have occurred from stroke.  The most common treatment for stroke is medication or drug therapy, and the most popular medication used to prevent and treat stroke are antithrombotics (anti-platelet medications and anticoagulants) and thrombotic.

What is the prognosis?
Although stroke occurs in the brain, it effects the entire body. Often times complete paralysis on an entire side of one's body, called hemeplegia, is a debilitating condition brought on by the stroke. It can also result in a related disability, that is not as debilitating, called hemiparesis – which is weakness on one side of the body. A stroke caused by the use of Yaz may also lead to issues with thinking, awareness, attention, learning, judgment and memory. Patients who survive a stroke often times have difficulties understanding or forming speech. Strokes have also been connected to causing changes in patients emotional state. Stroke patients may have difficulty controlling their emotions or may express inappropriate emotions. Depression is a common affliction among stroke patients. There are other physical issues that could be psychosomatic such as numbness or strange sensations. The pain is often centered in the extremities, such as the hands and feet, and could be made worse by movement and temperature fluctuations, especially cold temperatures. Many women who have suffered from a Yaz strokes continue to suffer from side effects long after their initial recovery.

Typically people who have had a stroke will have another one, and about 25 percent of individuals who recover from their first stroke will have another within 5 years.

If you have developed blood clots, including deep vein thrombosis (DVT), pulmonary embolism or a stroke, all of which  may have been brought on by using Yaz birth control, you have legal rights and may want to contact a law firm to talk about your options.