University Student Suffers Heart Attack from Yaz Blood Clot

Wolford began taking Yaz in 2011, and it was her first birth control pill that she had ever taken. Prior to Yaz, she had never been on any form of birth control.

In 2012, Wolford filed a Yaz lawsuit against its manufacturer, Bayer Pharmaceuticals. Her complaint alleged that she had only been taking Yaz for four months before she woke up in the middle of the night with terrible chest pains. She felt better soon after and went back to sleep. Several nights later, she woke up again, this time with an isolated pain that occurred in her ribs. After the pain persisted, her parents took her to the emergency room where she found herself surrounded by a group of doctors.

MRI Reveals Blood Clot in Her Lung

Due to her difficulty breathing, Wolford underwent an MRI where doctors discovered that she had a blood clot in her lung, her right one to be exact. Additionally, what’s even scarier is that although Wolford had jokingly considered the idea that her chest pains a few nights earlier had been a heart attack, the doctors confirmed that it indeed had been a heart attack, after all. She spent a night in the hospital and for six months after took blood thinners to prevent the occurrence of another blood clot.

Bayer, who had marketed Yaz as a preferred option for women who have difficulty with hormonal tolerance, has yet to respond to the allegations filed in Wolford’s Yaz blood clot lawsuit, although it is a year later. Wolford is not looking for monetary compensation; she simply wants Yaz removed from the market.