What is A Stroke?
A stroke typically happens when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted (perhaps by a clot), or when a blood vessel in the brain breaks, 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 sudden bleeding around the brain. It has been proven that Yaz is believed 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 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 forms of stroke:

• ischemic – an interruption of blood supply to the brain.
• hemorrhagic – due to a tear in a blood vessel.

Stroke Treatment
Treatment stages 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 treatments need to be utilized to aid in prevention or in recurrent strokes. Such risk factors 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 inducing the ischemic stroke, or by stopping the bleeding of a hemorrhagic stroke. Patients may also need post-stroke rehabilitation to help survive 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 hinder 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 disability brought on by the stroke. It may 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 issues with thinking, awareness, attention, learning, judgment and retention. Patients who survive a stroke often times have difficulties understanding or forming speech. Strokes have also been linked to inducing 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 ailments that could be psychosomatic such as numbness or odd sensations. The pain is often centered in the extremities, such as the hands and feet, and could be made worse by movement and temperature changes, particularly 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 people who recover from their first stroke will have another inside 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 reach a law firm to discuss your options.