Category: Women's Issues
For individuals suffering from symptoms mimicking a brain tumor, such as headaches, nausea, vomiting and vision loss, with no signs of an actual tumor, it could be connected to Mirena IUD, Ortho Evra or Depo Provera or another type of hormonal birth control causing a rare but serious condition called pseudotumor cerebri, which occurs when the pressure inside your skull increases for no obvious reason.
Transvaginal mesh has been plagued by reports of devastating injuries among women who received the implants to treat pelvic organ prolapse or stress urinary incontinence, and to date, close to 80,000 lawsuits have been consolidated in six multidistrict litigations against mesh manufacturers like C.R. Bard, Coloplast, Ethicon, Boston Scientific and American Medical Systems.
Birth control allegedly contributes to the likelihood of acquiring the injury also commonly called idiopathic intracranial hypertension. Excess fluid in the brain can contribute to severe headaches, blurry vision or double vision, permanent blindness and other injuries.