Pulmonary Embolism - blood clots in my lungs which were caused by...

well ive been on yaz for 2 weeks and so has my friend and she recently passed away from doubling up her doses after she missed a pill....its such a hard time for me right...i cnt even believe i was the one who told her she should just take another pill..i even suggested she take a third but she didnt..so now i feel the blame for it...but rly its god damn yaz's fault they say take another pill when u miss one so they r just killing everyone i hate u yaz....my friend could of just not used the pill and gotten pregnant instead she died....SHE DIED!!!!!!!! do you here me....GONE not coming back and i hate u...not the makers of yaz...just YAZ!!!!!!stay AWAY from YAZ!!!!!

Just wondering...How long had you been taking Yaz? What were your symptoms that lead you to seek medical help?

Cutezee--

Not sure about the original poster, but my symptoms were so slight that I didn't seek medical attention for awhile. Looking back, I had some slight shortness of breath when exercising weeks before I went to the ER. I had a cough (which may have been a cold-related) and the thing that sent me to the ER was a full day of what I thought were abdominal pains. The only reason I went to the ER was that it was after 9pm and I was supposed to get on a 3 hour plane trip the next morning. I had no idea what I had was that serious. I ended up in ICU for 3 days and the hospital for 2 more.

I was just diagnosed with a several pulmonary embolisms on both sides of my lungs, presumably from a large clot that broke into smaller pieces (which I am lucky for) and presumably caused at least partially by the BCP Yaz. I was in the hospital for a few days and now will be on anti-coagulant therapy for many months. I really didn't have many symptoms. Just some rib pain (felt like I bruised/strained or even broke a rib but now we know that I had some of my lung tissue die from being blocked off from a clot and that is what caused the pain), some pain when I took in a deep breath, and some slight abdominal pain. One of my doctors in our smaller hosptial told me she has seen 5 young women recently who had gotten pulmonary embolisms and all had been on Yaz, Interesting. Be careful.