Birth control pill causes 23-year-old woman to suffer massive heart attack

Aol.com reports: When Sarah Brison was 23 years old, she was at her physical prime. She played soccer, ate healthily and always took care of her body. That's why she was so confused when she woke up one morning in excruciating pain. It was so bad that she began to lose her sight. Sarah was having a heart attack. Experts believe that Sarah's heart attack occurred because of her contraceptive pill. Sarah, who is now healthy and fully recovered, recounted the experience. She said:  "Everything went blurry then, within seconds, I lost my vision completely. I couldn't feel my limbs, had no control over my body and I was sweating uncontrollably. The pain was unbearable. It was like brain freeze except it was all over my chest, as if someone was pressing down on me with all of their weight. They say your hearing is the last sense to go before you die. Everything else had gone. I felt like my body was shutting down.'' After Sarah's boyfriend Billy Pamment, 23, called an ambulance the morning of her heart attack, she was wired to defibrillator pads and taken to St. George's Hospital in London. There, she was tranferred to the cardiology department for tests. The doctors were shocked to find blood clots on the vessels leading to Sarah's heart. Sarah said: "I just kept asking the doctor how it could have happened. I was 23. Surely 23-year-olds didn't have heart attacks? I kept asking if I was going to die."  After tests came back, it was revealed that Sarah had a hole in her heart. While this condition typically causes no health problems for the 25 percent of the population who has it, a blood clot passed through the hole in Sarah's heart, which in turn caused her massive heart attack. Sarah said:  "The consultant told me the most likely reason was because I was on the Pill."...