Megan Henry

[The doctor] started to tell me, you have multiple pulmonary embolisms in both lungs, they're sending an ambulance, they're going to come and they're going to rush you to the emergency room ... it just really took me by surprise and you know I knew it was something bad but I never imagined it would be something like that.

I mean I was struggling, I was struggling to breathe. it's like an elephant was sitting on my chest all the time.

I said, you know I started taking this birth control, is it related to this? and he was like, yeah, I definitely think that you have blood clots and it's from the birth control.

There are other options out there for birth control that have risks, but not doubling the risks, if I would have known that I never would have taken it.

Easy. Safe. That's really how it was presented -- easy, safe, low-dose hormone -- you know, and it turns out it wasn't. It wasn't that at all.