Mother, 32, nearly killed by multiple blood clots in lungs and leg after GP ... trends now

A mother claims she 'could have died' after developing blood clots just weeks after her GP prescribed the 'wrong' contraceptive pill. 

Emma Tuthill, who lives in Ayrshire, began taking the Pill again in March — six years after giving birth to son Kaiden. 

But in April, Ms Tuthill's heart rate suddenly spiked and she collapsed at home. 

While reassured by medics nothing was amiss, days later the 32-year-old suffered a seizure that left her struggling to move.

Rushed to A&E, scans revealed she had a life-threatening blood clot in her leg and a pulmonary embolism in both lungs. 

The condition occurs when a clot forms in a vein, usually in the leg, before traveling to the lung where it gets stuck. 

Such blockages can prove fatal if the clot blocks the blood supply to the lungs. 

Ms Tuthill's experience is believed to be a dangerous combination linked to her migraines and the Pill. 

General NHS advice warns women who have migraines with aura — where there are warning signs before the painful headaches strike — may not be able to take the combined pill as it can raise the risk of clots and even strokes.

Other health service resources go further, stating the risk posed to women who have migraines with aura by the medication is 'unacceptable' or that it shouldn't be offered for these patients. 

Recalling starting on the Pill shortly before her ordeal, Ms Tuthill said: 'I thought I'd be fine because I'd been on it so long in the past. Then one day I felt really cold and had had a migraine all day.

'I felt my heart beating really fast. I was brushing my teeth and knew I just didn't feel right.

'I came up to my bed, sat down and thought I was having a panic attack. Then I woke up and I was on the floor and my wee boy was holding my hand, asking if I was okay.'

Her mother called 999, but paramedics who treated Ms Tuthill told her that her body was simply 'resetting itself' after a cold, she claimed. 

Still concerned by her symptoms, she visited her GP the following day who echoed the paramedics' explanation, Ms Tuthill said. 

However, just days later, she suffered a seizure while with her partner, 34-year-old William Dickson, who then rushed her to University Hospital Crosshouse in Kilmarnock.

She said: 'William called the ambulance and the paramedics said my oxygen levels were dangerously low.

'After my seizure when I came around, I felt like I couldn't breathe. It was like someone was suffocating me, it was horrible.'

'I was extremely unwell at first but on day four of being on the high dependency unit the doctor came to me and said I could've died. 

'He told me that it sounds like a provoked clot due to the contraceptive pill.' 

Seizures, sudden bursts of electrical activity in the brain that affect how it works can be triggered by blood clots.

While this is most commonly reported with blood clots that appear in the

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