Stroke and the use of the Ortho Evra Patch
Davida Godett of Philadelphia, PA woke up one morning and found her entire left side numb and her vision blurred. She had experienced a mini-stroke. Interestingly, she was on the Ortho Evra patch at the time. She had a child in March of 2003 and went on the Ortho Evra Patch shortly thereafter and continued to use it until November 2005. That was when she had her mini-stroke. The doctor in the ER where she was taken asked her what meds she was taking and she told him the Ortho Evra Patch. At the time she was 30 years old, in good physical shape and didn’t smoke. She had no other conditions to indicate a stroke risk, nor did her family experience any medical issues that she could have inherited. A doctor in ER told her she could never use the Ortho Evra patch or any kind of birth control pill again. He explained that the amount of hormones fluctuating in her body could cause another stroke. The hospital also sent letters to her gynecologist saying she cannot have any extra hormones in her body due to heightened estrogen levels. She followed the doctor’s orders and never used the patch or the pill again.
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