It all started on September 3. Mauricio and I went for a hike at Great Falls and I felt like I was having menstrual cramps, but they were kind of at the top of my leg too! I just took some tylenol and ignored it. On Monday, I was having trouble driving my car (a standard). There was pain when I hit the pedal to switch gears. I just thought that I had a pulled muscle because the month before I pulled something during yoga. On Wednesday, I had an interview with one of my clients at the Arlington Asylum Office at 9:30 but the Asylum Adjudicator ldid not call my clients until 4:00 pm, so I was sitting the entire day. I was almost unable to walk when I got out of there. My clients were helping me to my car. I called Mauricio and told him to meet me downstairs. He made me dinner which I could not hold down. My pants on the left leg were incredibly tight and my leg was purple and huge. I told Mauricio to call 911 because I could not stop vomiting.... anyway long story short the Paramedics told me I had a muscle strain and to see a doctor the next day. My sister came home and was like "oh my gosh" you have a blood clot. We called 911 again because I could not walk and they came and rushed me to the emergency room. I was scared. So I had an ultrasound to confirm the diagnosis. From my abdomen to my calf it was a blood clot. I was in the ICU for 3 days and then 3 days in the other part of the hospital. I really wish that the gyno would have described the side effects and not dismissed my very real symptoms to YAZ (the pill). I hear more and more from women that the pill has caused them to go through a lot of medical issues and made them sick.