Healthy Illinois woman, 30, suffers TERRIFYING and life-threatening side effect ... trends now
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A 'healthy' woman in Illinois began bleeding from her backside after suffering a rare and deadly complication of the pill.
The unnamed patient, 30, suffered the side effect for three weeks not long after starting birth control with progesterone, sometimes called the 'mini pill'.
A colonoscopy revealed the rare bowel condition ischemic colitis, which occurs when blood flow gets cut off to parts of the large intestine.
Without that circulation, parts of the bowel can die, leading to death. The doctors treating her said that it was only the second case of its kind.
An unnamed patient, 30, suffered a bowel condition and rectal bleeding after taking progesterone-only birth control
In this image of the patient's colon, the researchers pointed out inflammation and tissue damage from ischemic colitis
The woman visited her local emergency room after three weeks of increasingly worse cramps, debilitating nausea,
