What is A Stroke?
A stroke typically happens when the blood flow 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 blocked from receiving oxygen and nutrients from the blood, or when there is unanticipated bleeding around the brain. It has been proven that Yaz is known to cause strokes.
Symptoms of stroke include sudden numbness or weakness, mainly on one side of the body; sudden confusion combined with trouble speaking or understanding speech; sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes; problems walking accompanied by dizziness, or loss of balance or coordination; or a sudden severe headache with no known cause.

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

Stroke Treatment
Treatment stages can pretty much 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 recurrent strokes. Such side effects could be hypertension, atrial fibrillation and diabetes. Acute stroke therapies try to stop 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. Individuals may also need post-stroke rehabilitation to help overcome disabilities and damages that may have occurred from stroke.  The most common treatment for stroke is medication or drug therapy, and the most popular drug used to prevent and treat stroke are antithrombotics (anti-platelet agents 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 handicap 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 brought on by the use of Yaz may also lead to problems 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 linked to causing changes in patients emotional state. Stroke patients may have trouble controlling their emotions or may express inappropriate emotions. Depression is a common affliction among stroke patients. There are other physical ailments that could be psychosomatic such as numbness or strange sensations. The pain is often focused in the extremities, such as the hands and feet, and could be made worse by movement and temperature changes, especially cold temperatures. Many women who have suffered from a Yaz strokes continue to endure from side effects long after their initial recovery.

Typically people who have had a stroke will have another one, and about 25 percent of people 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 caused by using Yaz birth control, you have legal rights and may want to contact a law firm to discuss your options.