Did Ortho Evra Patch Cause DVT?
Toronto, CA: Karen had blood tests–on her doctor’s advice–before she went on the Ortho Evra Patch. Everything was fine until two years later, on a flight back to Canada from a back-packing trip around Europe. Her leg went numb and swelled up to double its size. “I was in the middle seat and it was agony,” she says. “It was a tingling sensation, like when your leg is asleep but it went on for the entire flight,” says Karen (not her real name pending a lawsuit). That was July 31st, 2007. Karen barely walked off the plane. “By August 3rd my leg was killing me. “”I went to the local walk-in clinic but the doctor told me to go to emergency immediately. They did an ultrasound but didn’t find anything and told me to come back five days later. I told them I had recently flown so they made note of that. The doctors also told me to get rid of the patch. I had another ultrasound and it detected DVT (deep vein thrombosis) in my right calf. The doctor gave me oxycontin. I thought it was weird tha
