http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2238377/Teenager-SEVEN-heart-attacks-month-pill-Contraceptive-caused-hundreds-blood-clots.htmlContraceptive caused hundreds of blood clotsby Keith Gladdis
November 25, 2012
Promising show jumper Alyce Clark had been taking a daily dose of Microgynon for just one month when she suddenly collapsed at home with a cardiac arrest.
By the time the 19-year-old was admitted to hospital she had been resuscitated by paramedics seven times in the ambulance. Her condition was so severe that her parents Roger, 61, and Freda, 60, were invited to 'say goodbye' to their daughter in hospital.
A CT scan revealed 'hundreds' of blood clots had travelled from her leg to her heart and then to both her lungs. But after emergency injections of an anti-blood clotting drug and two days in intensive care, Alyce eventually started to recover.
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