‘The implant nearly cost me my LIFE’: Teenager was left on the brink of death after she suffered a reaction to her contraceptive which caused a build-up of fluid on her brain

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A teenager was left fighting for her life after she suffered a life-threatening reaction to a contraceptive implant – which left her needing emergency surgery.

Tasha Hughes suffered a massive build-up of fluid on her brain, which can be deadly, a year after having an implant fitted in her arm when she was just 17.

Doctors repeatedly dismissed her crippling headaches, which began to blight her life a year after it was fitted. They also ignored her blurring vision. 

It took a trip to the opticians to realise she had developed intracranial hypertension – believed to be triggered by the hormones released by the implant. They warned she would have gone blind within weeks if it had not been spotted.

Miss Hughes, from Walsall, was then rushed for emergency surgery. Surgeons sliced open her skull and inserted a shunt to drain dangerous levels of fluid away from her brain. 

Still suffering the effects two years on, she is sharing her story in a bid to warn other women of the unexpected side effects of hormonal contraceptives.

Miss Hughes, now 20, has been left partially sighted. For months she hated leaving her house as the scars on her head made her feel like ‘Frankenstein’. 

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