Female Sexual Castration – Birth Control Drugs

Secrets – Female Sexual Castration – Birth Control Drugs

Shortly after our last e-newsletter on the health dangers of the newest birth control pills, I had the opportunity to speak at length with Jody McLaughlin, who has now logged in over thirty years in the birth industry. It was wonderful to hear of her observations of women over the past thirty years. In our conversation, Judy called the birth control pill, “female castration”, and she said it was causing a generation of our young women to be dumbed down intellectually, emotionally and sexually. I agree, this is exactly what is happening to our young women.

Since we began taking the birth control pill, we no longer have young women protesting or advocating for change. University rallies rarely last for more than a few hours. Colleges and universities know that they can easily double tuition fees and have little backlash to deal with. Wars, started and never ended because women have lost their ability to speak up, or so few are willing to. Chemical castration causes one to lose their drive and ambition in life, something that has been known for centuries.

The pill did not provide women with freedom, instead it has muffled us and stripped us of our female sexuality and sensuality. Stealing the best out of us, our drive and ambition. I believe the pill has become a prison for the modern young woman. All doors out of this chemical prison are locked or just lead more deeply within, each room providing different formats of the same female castrating drugs.

Some our young men are complaining that today’s young women have nothing to say past gossip, display little ambition, they are difficult to arouse and quite frankly, boring in bed. That is how a young woman would behave after her sex drive was chemically removed. And because the pill takes away our keen sense of scent, women are choosing the wrong partners when they are on birth control and realize this too late, once they stop the pill and their ability to smell increases. The young women then complain that now their guy smells different. Liking the scent of your partner, sweaty or clean, is what draws us sexually to our partners.  Young women are also losing their drive and ambition just at the moment that they need everything at their command to complete their higher education and begin their new career.

Taking the pill at a too young age, before the age of 25, can leave a legacy of infertility in later years. Undiscovered sexually transmitted diseases along with too early and long term use of chemical birth control is the foundation of the tremendous rise in infertility we are seeing in our North American society today. Young women taking some of the new birth control dugs are finding their period goes away and either doesn’t come back for years or perhaps not at all, stealing their fertility and their future.

Additional physical complaints from chemical birth control include depression, mood swings, frequent headaches, bloating, lack of energy, weight gain, lung clots, pancreatitis, risk of heart attacks, strokes, pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis, gallbladder complications and other life-threatening health problems. Don’t believe that today’s birth control pills are “safer” than they were when we were growing up, they are much, much more dangerous today. Does a bright young woman you know exhibit feelings of hopeless, lack of energy, depression, lack of desire to get ahead, cloudy thinking and mood swings? Is she mostly “down” instead of “up”? These are the young women also at risk for numerous addictions used in order to attempt to chemically feel better.

Looking back I can see that I started the pill at a too young age. At that time you were on the pill whether you were actually having sex or not. If there was any sexual activity it was certainly sporadic and rarely occurred more than a few times a year. I was continually going on and off the pill and having my prescription changed to another drug due to the multitude of side effects I was experiencing. I finally gave up using all chemical birth control and began to study my personal fertility cycle and and use barrier methods during fertility only. This difference in my ability to move forward in my career and my ability to get things done increased tremendously after I stopped taking the pill. Depression lifted and life just began to look differently allowing me to take great strides forward in my life.

Still chemical birth control free and have been since the birth of my daughter. Now, I can see what was happening to me in my twenties and why. I much prefer my sexuality intact and will not be doing anything to stop my cycles. I am happy to have my cycle to the very, very, last, last day. I recently spoke with a sexual health expert and now I understand the importance of my cycles for maintaining my optimum health as a woman. This expert had forecast long before the tremendous damage that could occur when a woman’s cycle is stopped or altered chemically.

Our daughters should not be graduating school without completing a program in Science or Health on tracking her own personal fertility cycle. The recent book, “Cycle Savvy” and “Taking Charge of Your Fertility” by Toni Weschler are excellent guides for young women for understanding their own personal body cycle and fertility pattern. Every young woman of the age of fourteen was given this book as a gift in Chicago a few years ago, what a wonderful gift to receive, free control of your fertility for the balance of their life.

Whether you are in the public or private school system, take a moment today or tomorrow and ask your school district if they will add a Fertility Planning module to the Sexual Health programing in your area. This only takes a short email to the Superintendent of your local school system. Ask them to add Fertility Awareness Programming to their Grade 9 Science or Health Classes.  Sometimes a suggestion is all that is needed to get the ball rolling. Pick up the telephone or click on the internet and send a quick email to the leader of the school system for your city. Our young women will not have any alternatives unless we teach them. This just takes a few minutes and could have tremendously positive results for the young women in your city or town, wherever you are.  I just wrote in myself to the head of our school system in my city. It took approximately 4 minutes to locate the top boss, write a one paragraph letter and attach the following recent article and email it. If ten women happened to write in at the same time, with the same suggestion, I would imagine the school system would need to pay attention.

The pharmaceutical companies and the physicians are not presenting birth control with the correct statistics and side effects. The statistics for birth control are skewed, only showing the stats from using the product correctly which they state, most don’t. The chemicals are providing no more than a 50/50 proposition of working, the side effects are not clearly noted. No mention is made of the sexual castration leading to a woman’s suppressed sexual desire, decreased drive, decreased ambition, decreased mood and energy, increased weight gain, along with the real and serious life threatening possibilities of physical damage to her body.

I understand that mom’s have enough to worry about today with young daughters, but it is really worth it to take away your daughter’s drive, ambition and ability to choose a partner at the most critical time of her life, for the sake of “peace of mind”?

Many thanks to everyone who sends in their comments and thanks also to those who let me know they passed this important article along to a daughter, granddaughter, friend, family member or physician. We need to think of better alternatives to pass on to our daughters to ensure the generational line continues in our own families and that our daughter’s are in optimal health.  Best wishes, Gail J. Dahl

Your Fertility Awareness and Charting References:

“Cycle Savvy” by Toni Weschler:  http://cyclesavvy.com/

“Taking Charge of Your Fertility” by Toni Weschler : http://www.tcoyf.com/

“The Garden of Fertility” by Katie Singer : http://www.gardenoffertility.com/

“Justisse Fertility Awareness for Women”:  http://www.justisse.com/default.htm

Free Online Guidebook at:  “Justisse Fertility Awareness”  http://www.justisse.com/eBook/

Free Fertility Charts at: http://www.gardenoffertility.com/fertilitycharts.shtml

Each one of these authors has created an excellent website to go along with their books and all have great free information. It only takes a few hours to learn how to work the fertility system and a few minutes daily to track your own personal fertility pattern. Some women track their ovulation and use it to schedule important business meetings and projects.

Ovulation is a high energy and highly creative time for all women. An excellent time to write a song, paint and do some innovative thinking about life. Tracking the ebb and flow of your body’s cycle can also assist you in monitoring your personal health throughout your years of fertility.  A free and drug-free way to have full control of your fertility throughout your life. Best, G

Need More Convincing on the Castration Part?
The birth control drugs being sold to your daughters, relatives and female friends is the same drug used for male sexual castration. This drug creates the same personal devastating effects such as of loss of sexual desire, loss of drive and ambition, deep depression, excessive weight gain, emotional turmoil, sexual confusion, isolating behavior and other serious mental, emotional and physical side effects. These drugs are usually reserved for sexual deviants and transexuals.  I was unaware of the depth of damage chemical birth control can do to women. I had an idea from watching what the drugs did to my own body, I am amazed now at how the effects are so all encompassing with the potential for devastating results. The type of drug mentioned in the article below is the foundation for the new types of birth control sold under the names of Yaz, Yazmin and the birth control shot Depo-Provera, any chemical that attempts to stop, re-program or delay a woman’s cycle. All chemical birth control has the potential to have the same castrating effect on a woman as it does on men. Take a look at this article below:

Drugs Used for Temporary Chemical Castration
By Joseph Nicholson,

The U.S. Constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, which is what actual castration would almost certainly be considered. But temporary chemical castration is used in a relatively small number of states as a way of preventing child molestation and other crimes of sexual deviance and violence. Most of the drugs used are female hormones used for birth control or regulation of the menstrual cycle. In men, they have the effect of curbing testosterone production. The same drugs are used by men getting a sex change operation to make sure they want to go through with actual castration. The effects of the drugs wear off in a few weeks if use is discontinued.

Identification

Chemical castration is not actually castration, so is sometimes considered to be misnamed. Unlike actual castration, the surgical removal of the testicles, chemical castration is temporary and fully reversible. It also does not result in sterility. Chemical castration is the use of hormones to lower the sex drive in men who have either been convicted of violent sexual offenses or who are thinking about a gender reassignment surgery.
History

The first published experiment on chemical castration appeared in 1981. The American Psychiatric Association subjected 48 men with established histories of sexually deviance behavior to regular doses of medroxyprogesterone acetate. Usually this drug is used to treat abnormally heavy menstrual bleeding in women. After being administered to the male subjects for a year, most reported less sex drive, less urge for deviant behavior and greater control of their sexuality. This groundbreaking study was the starting point for chemical castration as a treatment for sexual deviance.
Depo-Provera

In 1996, California became the first state to make chemical castration a mandatory sentence for the crime of child molestation. The drug used there was Depot medroxyprogesterone acetate, also called DMPA or Depo-Provera. Like the drug used in the APA tests, Depo-Provera is a female hormone. Its typical use is as long-acting birth control. In men it inhibits production of the chemical that triggers testosterone production in the testicles. A first time offender in California can be sentenced to chemical castration for a particularly heinous crime, otherwise it is optional. On the second offense, chemical castration becomes mandatory.
Cyproterone

Another drug used for temporary chemical castration is cyproterone acetate, an antiandrogen drug that trades under various brand names. Like the drugs previously mentioned, it has some use as a female birth control hormone, but in much more limited cases. Like Depo-Provera, cyproterone inhibits the production of luteinizing hormone by the pituitary gland. This is the hormone that stimulates testosterone production. These antiandrogen effects make cyproterone an effective treatment for any condition where androgens like testosterone prolong the disease. It’s also used in the treatment of early onset puberty in boys and of excessive hairiness in girls.
Other States

As of 2009, seven states use some form of chemical castration, with weekly injections of Depo-Provera the most commonly used method. In 2008, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal signed a bill into law allowed judges to sentence convicted rapists to chemical castration with medroxyprogesterone acetate, the same drug used in the original 1981 study. In Iowa, chemical castration is available as a sentence for all sex offenses. Florida, Georgia, Texas and Montana also allow chemical castration as criminal punishment.
References

Treatment of sex offenders with medroxyprogesterone acetate
California Child Molesters Face ‘Chemical Castration’
Chemical Castration

Calgarians join class action $15M lawsuit against birth control makers

By Daryl Slade, Calgary Herald
April 9, 2010 6:23 AM

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Despina Papparis, left, says it was “sheer luck” that brain blood clots didn’t kill her daughter Chloe, now 18.

Photograph by: Leah Hennel, Calgary Herald

Eight months after Chloe Papparis began taking a birth control pill for acne, she almost died from severe side-effects, she says.

The teen started suffering from a bad migraine headache and frequent bouts of vomiting last August. Her family doctor thought it might be swine flu.

Six days later, however, Papparis was rushed to Foothills Hospital. Doctors told her she was 24 hours from dying.

“When I was in ER, the doctor by fluke said to give me a CT scan. They found five blood clots on my brain,” Papparis, now 18, said Thursday.

“I was told I had had a stroke and I wasn’t supposed to be living. If we had waited . . . I would have died.”

Papparis is among 800 Canadians taking part in class-action lawsuits against the manufacturer of two birth control drugs, Yaz and Yasmin, which they allege have caused severe reactions, including seven deaths.

All of the claims have been filed by Tony Merchant of the Merchant Law Group.

Fifty-four of the 90 Alberta plaintiffs in the $15-million lawsuit are from this city. That suit was filed at the Court of Queen’s Bench in Calgary.

None of their allegations have been proven in court, and the defendants, all subsidiaries of manufacturer Bayer Inc., have yet to file statements of defence.

Merchant said Thursday his firm has filed or is about to file similar multimillion-dollar claims in all provinces except Prince Edward Island.

“The seven deaths are all similar in that they were all young women who were healthy,” Merchant said.

“One woman who died was 28, the rest were 14 to 19 years.”

“Of the 400 who do have problems, many have lost their gall bladder. All of them have continual blood pressure problems or blood clots related to blood pressure effects,” said Merchant.

In the claim, it is alleged the Bayer companies “participated in the common purpose of concealing the adverse effects of Yasmin and Yaz from regulatory authorities, the medical community, the public and class (action) members.”

It also alleges the FDA in the U.S. received more than 50 reports of deaths among users of the two drugs between 2004 and 2008.

“These reports include deaths associated with cardiac arrhythmia, cardiac arrest, intracardiac thrombus, pulmonary embolism, and stroke in women in their child-bearing years,” says the statement of claim.

It alleges the defendants knew or should have known that use of Yaz and Yasmin created an increased risk to consumers of personal serious injury, including but not limited to gallbladder disease, blood clots and strokes.

Papparis, meanwhile, spent six days in hospital and was placed on the anti-coagulant Heparin for six months to prevent clotting.

She is now off the drug but can never take birth control pills again. Doctors will have to be careful with her if she ever goes through surgery, for fear of more blood clotting.

Despina Papparis says her daughter was the first person to be admitted to the stroke clinic at Foothills Hospital because of reactions to Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella — all birth control pills with synthetic estrogen — but there have been several more since then.

“It was scary, it was horrifying, we’ve had nightmares,” she said.

“She started in December (2008), because she was graduating in May. She was taking it to clear up her acne for grad and her grad photos. The doctor handed it over and we didn’t think anything of it.

“We were lucky the doctor ordered the CT scan. He said had I not brought her in, she wouldn’t have survived Saturday. It was sheer luck. Why would I expect blood clots?”

Chloe said she doesn’t want anyone else to suffer.

“What happened to me is the worst thing of my life,” she said. “I don’t want other girls to go through it, too.”

dslade@theherald.canwest.com

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Yasmin, Yaz Class Action Lawsuit Filed for Women in Canada

Published: March 12th, 2010 • Comments: 8

A class action lawsuit over Yaz and Yasmin birth control has been filed in Canada against Bayer Pharmaceuticals on behalf of women who were prescribed the birth control pill, alleging that the drug maker hid the risk of serious and potentially life-threatening side effects of Yaz and Yasmin. The Yasmin and Yaz class action lawsuit was filed earlier this week in the St. Catharines, Ontario, by Christine Lovelace and Jennifer Demunnik. Both women say that Yaz and Yasmin cause health problems above and beyond those caused by other typical oral contraceptives. In the United States, about 1,100 Yaz lawsuits and Yasmin lawsuits have been filed on behalf of individual women who allege that they suffered injuries that were caused by the birth control pills, such as a stroke, heart attack, pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis, gallbladder disease and other injuries.

Lovelace alleges that she suffered a transient ischemic attack, also known as a “mini-stroke,” last fall after taking Yaz for several months. She was temporarily paralyzed on her left side and could not communicate. She has mostly recovered, but still suffers hand and foot nerve damage. Demunnik alleges that she developed gallstones after a year and a half on the birth control pill and had to have her  gallbladder removed from Yaz. Yaz and Yasmin are similar pills that are both manufactured by Bayer, containing a combination of ethinyl estradiol and drospirenone, a new type of progestin. Drospirenone, or drsp, impacts the body’s normal mechanism of regulating a balance between salt and water, which could result in elevated potassium levels. This can cause a condition known as hyperkalemia, which is linked to potentially life-threatening heart problems and other health issues. The lawsuits over Yaz and Yasmin have suggested that the oral contraceptives have been responsible for at least 50 deaths in the U.S. alone.

The Canadian Yaz class action lawsuit claims that Bayer knew, or should have known, that the birth control pills carry a higher risk of side effects than other birth control pills. The lawsuit is seeking $487,000 for each Canadian woman prescribed Yaz or Yasmin, and an additional $20 million in punitive damages against Bayer. There have been at least four Canadian Yaz and Yasmin class action lawsuits filed against Bayer in Canada. In the United States, all federal Yaz litigation has been consolidated for pretrial proceedings in a multidistrict litigation (MDL), under Chief Judge David Herndon in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.

There Are 8 Comments So Far • (Add Your Comments)

Comment by Robin on 14 March 2010:

I was on Yaz for 5+ years just last year had to have my gallbladder removed because I was having a lot of problems breathing and not feeling right took doctor a while to figure out that my gallbladder had stopped working correctly actually wasn’t working at all. Not sure if Yaz caused it or not but after hearing all the size effects I think there is a good reason to think maybe my birth control might have had something to do with all of it. I was unaware of all this.

Comment by Jennelle on 16 March 2010:

I am 20 years old and I have been taking Yasmin for about 3 years. Last November I started having random chest pain. In January I also discovered that I was having very low blood sugar, and my pulse and blood pressure were higher then normal, on average about 135/85. I went to the doctor in February and I got him to change the birth control I was on to another one. I had one episode of chest pain and I decided to stop that one as well. If there is anything I should be doing about this please inform me.

Comment by Melissa on 18 March 2010:

I’m 20, I was on Yaz for about a year when I started getting severe heart pains, dizzy spells that would last more than 12 hours, and I would have a stomach ache everyday. I heard about the class action and stopped immediately and started a new pill. I am yet to have those symptoms again.

Comment by Brenda on 19 March 2010:

I’m 37-years old. I was having abnormally long periods (10 days long every 26 days) and my Dr. perscribed Yaz to shorten my period. The greatest side effects that I have noticed are: 1) a complete loss of libido; my libido was fine before taking the pill and 2) a great deal of hair loss. I had beautiful thick hair prior to taking Yaz. It has thinned so much that now it just looks long and stringy so I am having it cut shorter this weekend in an attempt to make it look fuller. If it would have known about these possible side effects ahead of time I would not have opted NOT to take this pill. I’ve noticed occasional sharp chest pains too but I’ve always just dismissed it. I will start paying more attention now and talk to my doctor about a better option than Yaz.

Comment by ERIN on 22 March 2010:

I was put on Yasmin after I had my baby to regulate my periods. It worked for a while but my doctore decided to change my perscription to YAZ. I was on these pills for a total of 2 1/2years. During this time I suffered from major chest pain that I went to the hospital thinking I was having a heart attack. I had all the tests done.. which included a lung scan, stress test, echo cardiogram etc. The doctors kept telling me I was fine. I was suffering huge headaches and began to suffer from severe dizziness to the point I thought I was passing out and having to hold onto something to stop me from falling. I had major heart palpitations and shortness of breath several times a day. I kept going back to my doctor weekly and she tried to tell me I was suffering from anxiety attacks and these were causing all these symptoms. I would wake up in the middle of the night feeling like I was going to die from the pain in my chest. My heart would be racing and pounding out of my chest. I would take my pill faithfully every night at 11pm. I would wake up faithfully everynight at 2am-3am.
I was taken to the hospital one day by ambulance because I had no energy to even get up. My husband called the ambulance and they took me to the hospital where I was suffering from such low blood pressure.
my doctor insisted that the pill had nothing to do with my symptoms so i kept taking them….I finally stopped taking them myself and feel better…

Comment by Summer on 23 March 2010:

I am 27 years old, and have been on Yasmin for two years. One year ago, I was suffering from periodic chest pains that resulted in a shortness of breath. After a few visits to the ER, I eventually had my gallbladder removed. Again, not sure if Yasmin caused this, but after hearing the side effects, I am forced to wonder.

Comment by Candace on 23 March 2010:

I am 28 years old and have been on Yaz for aprox 8 months. I have never had any serious health issues and have never been hospitalized for any serious illnesses. Quite healthy over all in fact. In December I had my first gall bladder attack and have proceeded to have them since. I have been in Emergency 3 times in the last 3 months due to gall bladder attacks, and otherwise usually try to ride them out at home. Just over two weeks ago, when I was in emergency for my last attack, I started to experience shortness of breath and a few days later side pain. After seeing my doctor I was sent to emergency and found out I had a pulmonary embolism in both my lungs. Now I go to an IV clinic twice a day to get heparin shots (my evening visit is my kids field trip before bed), and get my blood work done once a day. I am on warfarin as well to prevent clotting. After being released from the hospital I was told about the links with my medical conditions and Yaz from a friend. Now I am left with the question “Could my birth control be the culprit??” The doctors have identified my birth control to be my only risk factor at this point. So when I die due to a Pulmonary Embolism from my birth control are they going to sooth my two children I leave behind?? This needs to come off the market, so many people have had issues with this how can we turn our heads. I am lucky to have been diagnosed before it got too complicated. This may have not taken my life this time but it had drastically changed my life, and my families.

Comment by Rose on 23 March 2010:

I was put on yasmin to decrease the flow of my period. Within the first month I had to go to the emergency room with severe adoninmal pains. The doctor didn’t know what cause these pains and I was told to continue to take yasmin. However over the next few months I develop severe depression to the point where I was becoming suicidal and it was only at this point that the doctor told me to stop taking yasmin. Since then I am experiencing wide mood swings; one moment I am estactic without a cause and the next moment I am deepen sadden and get upset with people around me. I now wondering if the pill has caused this to happen to me.

Yaz Lawsuit: Birth Control Injury Evaluations – USA
Yaz, which is nearly identical to Yasmin birth control, is a newer type of oral contraceptive sold by Bayer. It has been aggressively marketed without adequate warnings about serious and potentially life-threatening side effects.

Women may be entitled to financial compensation through a Yaz lawsuit if they have suffered from a:

Heart Attack or Stroke
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
Pulmonary Embolism (PE)
Gallbladder Disease
Sudden Death on Yaz
>>MORE INFORMATION: Yaz Side Effects

Throughout the United States, a number of Yaz birth control lawsuits have been filed against Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Inc., which was formerly known as Berlex, Inc. and Berlex Laboratories, Inc., alleging that the drug makers:

Failed to adequately warn consumers and the medical community about the potential risk of Yaz side effects.
Failed to adequately test and research Yaz birth control before placing it on the market, which could have shown that users will face an increased risk of heart attacks, strokes, pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis, gallbladder complications and other life-threatening health problems.
Failed to issue a Yaz recall or remove the birth control pill from the market after it became apparent that it is an unreasonably dangerous drug, for which the harmful side effects outweigh any potential benefits provided over other available birth control pills.
Aggressively marketed Yaz and encouraged misuse and overuse despite the known Yaz dangers to maximize profits at the expense of users’ health.
The drug makers had sole access to facts concerning the potential Yaz problems, and ignored the correlation between their drug and potentially life-threatening side effects.  Yaz safety concerns were concealed and misrepresentations were made to to convince potential users and the medical community to use the birth control pill instead of other available products.  This increased the drug makers’ profits at the expense of women throughout the United States.

Yasmin Lawsuits – Yasmin Claim Center – USA

Yasmin Side Effects

The oral contraceptive Yasmin has been on the market since 2001, marketed by Bayer. The drug has been subject to some degree of medical questioning because of the higher incidence of side effects than is shown by other oral contraceptives. There have been persistent complaints of depression either caused or exacerbated by Yasmin, along with mood swings and general emotional turmoil that seems to halt when the drug is discontinued. There have also been a disturbing number of strokes incurred by women who were using Yasmin. Blood clots cause strokes; because of the chemical makeup of oral contraceptives in general there is warning language on virtually all of them about the possibility of an embolism resulting in a stroke. In the case of Yasmin, there have been so many complaints about this type of severe side effects that several lawsuits have been filed against Bayer by women who have either been affected by a stroke or by severe and debilitating emotional swings.

Bayer has kept the product on the market and maintains that its impact is no more severe than any of the similar contraceptives on the market. In December of 2008, the FDA stepped into the Yasmin debate with a public health advisory that cautioned of possible bouts of pancreatitis associated with Yasmin. Normally associated with alcohol abuse or gall bladder dysfunction, pancreatitis is an extremely painful condition that involves inflammation of the pancreas.The complaints about Yasmin continue to pile up. They are more numerous and far more severe than complaints about other oral contraceptives. The reason that Yasmin stands out may be the fact that the drug takes a slightly different approach to preventing pregnancy than most oral contraceptives. In the eyes of many product liability lawyers, this biochemical variation may be the weakness in Yasmin that is resulting in such serious problems for so many women.  More at the following:  http://www.yasminclaimcenter.org/

Class action lawsuits launched for Yaz/Yasmin patients – Canada
TORONTO, March 11 /CNW/ – Regarding a widely prescribed birth control drug, Tony Merchant, Q.C., and his law firm is today launching a class action lawsuit in British Columbia on behalf of women who have used Yaz/Yasmin. “The B.C. lawsuit is similar to the Yaz/Yasmin national class action lawsuits our law firm launched with the Courts last year in Ontario and Saskatchewan.”

“Our firm has received complaints from dozens of women across Canada who have suffered blood clots, pulmonary embolisms, gall bladder removals, and other serious medical emergencies, which our class action lawsuits allege were caused by Yaz/Yasmin. Our national class action litigation is intended to ensure that these individuals receive significant financial compensation for the harm they have suffered, and in our view, any individuals in Canada who have used Yaz or Yasmin should receive compensation from the manufacturer of these drugs (Bayer).”

Yasmin/Yaz contain a “Fourth Generation” Progestin. It is asserted in the lawsuits that Yasmin and Yaz are different from other combined hormonal birth control pills in that they contain drospirenone, a progestin that is unlike other progestins available in Canada, which was never before marketed in Canada (or the United States) prior to its use in Yasmin and Yaz. The allegations have not yet been proven in court. Copies of the lawsuits are available to the media on request by contacting merchant@merchantlaw.com

Individuals interested in joining the Yaz/Yasmin class action lawsuits may contact one of our firm’s 10 law offices across Canada by telephone at 866-982-7777 or at http://www.merchantlaw.com/classactions/yasmin.php

More Interesting Vitamin D3 Information:

For those of us in the northern climates who are attempting to get enough Vitamin D3 from the sun, you are probably a bit chilled by now, brrr….. I know I am.
Still receiving great responses from those who are on the Vitamin D3 and K2 program. 1,000 IU’s of Vitamin D3 are exactly enough for some people to receive relief, some are taking 5,000 IU’s daily, some 10,000 IU’s daily, and others, like myself, seem to require more to see a good and positive response.  I am continuing to take 50,000 IU’s a day along with daily small amounts of Vitamin K2. I did stop my own program for three days and sure enough the severe pain and accompanying depression returned just as quickly. I am very grateful to be feeling so much better in mind and body.  I am so very pleased to hear that others are also receiving pain relief and an increased sense of well being from this program. Looking forward to seeing more positive results in myself and hearing more positive stories from you all.

Here is a copy of the Vitamin D3 Council and their additional information on receiving enough Vitamin D3 from the sun:
Hello Gail,  Newsletter looks great! I see you like my vitamin D quotes page that I created. There are some rather good quotes on there…I’m glad you included them. One thing you should know. Only 15 minutes a day and only exposing small areas of skin may not be sufficient for many people, especially at your latitude (Canada, right?).

Here are factors to take into account when obtaining vitamin D from sun exposure:
age — those who are elderly will not produce as much vitamin D in response to UVB
latitude of residence — those further from the equator will have a longer “vitamin D winter” (this includes Canada)
time of day — needs to be between appx. 10am-2pm for UVB
amount of time spent in the sun/skin melanin content — fair skinned around 20-30 min, blacks may need 5-10 times longer
overall health (eg: obesity) — obesity may impair the skin’s ability to produce vitamin D to some degree
amount of skin exposed — need to expose as much skin as possible
amount of smog/air pollution — smog can have some effect on the amount of UVB that reaches the ground
sunscreen use — SPF 8 can block as much as 95% vitamin D production
I’m not sure if the time of day advice for 10am-2pm applies to your latitude, this window may be shorter like you have stated from 11am-12pm. A good way to tell (and a good rule of thumb) is: If your shadow is longer than you are tall, you are not making any vitamin D. This rule will naturally apply to season of the year, and time of day.  Dana Clark, Vitamin D Council

Best wishes,
Gail
Gail J. Dahl
Award Winning – National Bestselling Author and Childbirth Researcher
National Bestselling “Pregnancy & Childbirth Secrets”
National Bestselling “Pregnancy & Childbirth Tips”
Executive Director, Innovative Publishing Inc.
Founder and Director of the Canadian Childbirth Association

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Gail J. Dahl is a childbirth researcher, award winning and national bestselling author. She is the founder and Executive Director of the Canadian Childbirth Association. Dahl has received many awards, including  “The YWCA Woman of Distinction Award”, “The Woman of Vision Award” and “The Great Women of the 21st Century Award” for her contributions toward women’s health and education.

Copyright 2010, Copyright released with references if the article is to be used for the purpose of childbirth education. “Pregnancy & Childbirth Secrets” by National Bestselling Author Gail J. Dahl. Now available across North America at Barnes & Noble, Borders, Chapters and Indigo Books & Music. For more great secrets see the website at:  http://web.mac.com/pregnancysecrets. The information contained in or provided through this publication is intended for general consumer understanding and education only and is not intended to be, and is not provided as, a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your midwife, physician,  or other qualified health care provider before you undergo any treatment or for answers to any questions you may have regarding any medical condition.

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