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OurLadyPray4US
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Please bear with me, I can’t (and would be forbidden to) advise any specific person for or against any specific drug. Whenever we decide to take a drug for a disease, it’s a decision based on an analysis of potential risks and therapeutic benefits.
But we need to raise awareness of the risks of “hormonal contraceptive drugs”, which are prescribed both for birth control and for non-contraceptive purposes such as treating gynecological conditions and acne.
Part of the problem is, many women will go to great lengths to avoid pregnancy, and they won’t mind taking drugs that have been shown to kill teenagers and twenty-somethings by causing blood clots, deep vein thrombosis (DVT), pulmonary and cerebral embolism, stroke, heart attack, and breast cancer.
The other part of the problem is that many doctors are way too easily prescribing the same dangerous medications for other women who are not trying to contracept, for the treatment of various gynecological conditions and acne.
Maybe a woman is suffering of such serious menstrual bleeding, cramps, endometriosis, or PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome), that she truly needs some sort of hormonal drug to control it, even though the same drug has been shown to have caused the deaths of young women, due to pulmonary embolism, and has also been shown to cause a major risk of aggressive (triple negative) breast cancer. Sometimes we deal with desperate conditions that warrant taking major risks. But at the other end of the spectrum, does a woman really need to avoid acne or hirsutism (excessive facial and body hair) at the risk of taking a medication that could kill her (again, embolism, heart attack, stroke, breast cancer)?
We need to educate ourselves, because many doctors take a warped view and ignore the risks when prescribing dangerous hormonal drugs for non-contraceptive purpose, since the same doctors themselves might be taking the same dangerous drugs to avoid pregnancy. And these doctors may fail to realize that if they don’t mind taking deadly risks to avoid pregnancy, that doesn’t mean that they can nonchalantly and automatically prescribe the same dangerous drugs to other women who are not trying to contracept, and perhaps are only dealing with less serious medical problems that could be treated with other, safer drugs.
At last but not least, maybe some girls and young women who are sexually active and contracepting, against the Church’s teachings, will reconsider after they hear of the tragical deaths of so many young girls and women, caused by hormonal birth control medications.
quote from foxnews.com/story/2008/08/18/acne-medication-birth-control-pill-blamed-for-woman-death/ :
Acne Medication, Birth Control Pill Blamed for Woman’s Death
Published August 18, 2008
Newscorp Australian Papers
The contraceptive pill is being blamed for the death of a 24-year-old woman who was using it as part of her acne treatment.
Tanya Hayes, a student from Croydon in Melbourne, Australia, died Monday, hours after collapsing in her car.
Hayes had been taking Yasmin, an oral contraceptive recommended for patients using the acne medication Accutane, for about four months.
Hayes had ignored symptoms of a pulmonary embolism for about two weeks, including “breathlessness” and “a nasty, hard cough,” according to her family.
She collapsed outside a restaurant late Sunday night and was rushed to Angliss Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.
Hayes died less than five hours later after a pulmonary embolism, or blood clotting, occurred in her lungs.
Associate Professor Graeme Thomson, the hospital’s director of emergency medicine, said Hayes’ death had been “caused by blood clotting caused by factors related to taking the oral contraceptive pill.”
Read more: foxnews.com/story/2008/08/18/acne-medication-birth-control-pill-blamed-for-woman-death/#ixzz2ekYCdTcD
quote from cbc.ca/news/health/story/2013/06/11/birth-control-pills-yaz-yasmin.html :
Yaz, Yasmin birth control pills suspected in 23 deaths
Most died from blood clots, Health Canada documents obtained by CBC News show
CBC News Posted: Jun 11, 2013 8:51 AM ET
At least 23 Canadian women who were taking two of the most commonly prescribed birth control pills in the world have died, CBC News has learned.
According to documents obtained from Health Canada, doctors and pharmacists say Yaz and Yasmin are suspected in the deaths of the women, who mostly died suddenly from blood clots.
One of the women, 18-year-old Miranda Scott, was working out on an elliptical machine at the Okanagan gym at the University of British Columbia when she collapsed and died three years ago,
Risk of blood clots rises
According to Scott’s autopsy, she died of “disseminated intravascular coagulation,” which means that blood clots formed inside blood vessels throughout her body.
Teen girls as young as 14
According to the documents obtained from Health Canada, between 2007 and February 2013, doctors and pharmacists have reported 600 adverse reactions and 23 deaths where Yaz or Yasmin were suspected. More than half of the reported deaths were women under 26, with the youngest age 14.
Most of the deaths reported occurred soon after starting the pills. In Scott’s case, it was just over a month.
“And that was all it took, five weeks start to finish, and that was the end of a beautiful, beautiful girl,” her mother said.
But we need to raise awareness of the risks of “hormonal contraceptive drugs”, which are prescribed both for birth control and for non-contraceptive purposes such as treating gynecological conditions and acne.
Part of the problem is, many women will go to great lengths to avoid pregnancy, and they won’t mind taking drugs that have been shown to kill teenagers and twenty-somethings by causing blood clots, deep vein thrombosis (DVT), pulmonary and cerebral embolism, stroke, heart attack, and breast cancer.
The other part of the problem is that many doctors are way too easily prescribing the same dangerous medications for other women who are not trying to contracept, for the treatment of various gynecological conditions and acne.
Maybe a woman is suffering of such serious menstrual bleeding, cramps, endometriosis, or PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome), that she truly needs some sort of hormonal drug to control it, even though the same drug has been shown to have caused the deaths of young women, due to pulmonary embolism, and has also been shown to cause a major risk of aggressive (triple negative) breast cancer. Sometimes we deal with desperate conditions that warrant taking major risks. But at the other end of the spectrum, does a woman really need to avoid acne or hirsutism (excessive facial and body hair) at the risk of taking a medication that could kill her (again, embolism, heart attack, stroke, breast cancer)?
We need to educate ourselves, because many doctors take a warped view and ignore the risks when prescribing dangerous hormonal drugs for non-contraceptive purpose, since the same doctors themselves might be taking the same dangerous drugs to avoid pregnancy. And these doctors may fail to realize that if they don’t mind taking deadly risks to avoid pregnancy, that doesn’t mean that they can nonchalantly and automatically prescribe the same dangerous drugs to other women who are not trying to contracept, and perhaps are only dealing with less serious medical problems that could be treated with other, safer drugs.
At last but not least, maybe some girls and young women who are sexually active and contracepting, against the Church’s teachings, will reconsider after they hear of the tragical deaths of so many young girls and women, caused by hormonal birth control medications.
quote from foxnews.com/story/2008/08/18/acne-medication-birth-control-pill-blamed-for-woman-death/ :
Acne Medication, Birth Control Pill Blamed for Woman’s Death
Published August 18, 2008
Newscorp Australian Papers
The contraceptive pill is being blamed for the death of a 24-year-old woman who was using it as part of her acne treatment.
Tanya Hayes, a student from Croydon in Melbourne, Australia, died Monday, hours after collapsing in her car.
Hayes had been taking Yasmin, an oral contraceptive recommended for patients using the acne medication Accutane, for about four months.
Hayes had ignored symptoms of a pulmonary embolism for about two weeks, including “breathlessness” and “a nasty, hard cough,” according to her family.
She collapsed outside a restaurant late Sunday night and was rushed to Angliss Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.
Hayes died less than five hours later after a pulmonary embolism, or blood clotting, occurred in her lungs.
Associate Professor Graeme Thomson, the hospital’s director of emergency medicine, said Hayes’ death had been “caused by blood clotting caused by factors related to taking the oral contraceptive pill.”
Read more: foxnews.com/story/2008/08/18/acne-medication-birth-control-pill-blamed-for-woman-death/#ixzz2ekYCdTcD
quote from cbc.ca/news/health/story/2013/06/11/birth-control-pills-yaz-yasmin.html :
Yaz, Yasmin birth control pills suspected in 23 deaths
Most died from blood clots, Health Canada documents obtained by CBC News show
CBC News Posted: Jun 11, 2013 8:51 AM ET
At least 23 Canadian women who were taking two of the most commonly prescribed birth control pills in the world have died, CBC News has learned.
According to documents obtained from Health Canada, doctors and pharmacists say Yaz and Yasmin are suspected in the deaths of the women, who mostly died suddenly from blood clots.
One of the women, 18-year-old Miranda Scott, was working out on an elliptical machine at the Okanagan gym at the University of British Columbia when she collapsed and died three years ago,
Risk of blood clots rises
According to Scott’s autopsy, she died of “disseminated intravascular coagulation,” which means that blood clots formed inside blood vessels throughout her body.
Teen girls as young as 14
According to the documents obtained from Health Canada, between 2007 and February 2013, doctors and pharmacists have reported 600 adverse reactions and 23 deaths where Yaz or Yasmin were suspected. More than half of the reported deaths were women under 26, with the youngest age 14.
Most of the deaths reported occurred soon after starting the pills. In Scott’s case, it was just over a month.
“And that was all it took, five weeks start to finish, and that was the end of a beautiful, beautiful girl,” her mother said.
