A 22-year-old student said she was left "traumatised" after suffering a blood clot which was likely due to being on the contraceptive pill.
Recollecting her experience two years on, psychology student Nia Phillips' described how it all started with a headache on the night she was supposed to be at a freshers' ball at Royal Holloway University, Surrey.
Instead it was Friday night and the then 20-year-old was bed-bound and could hardly lift her head from her pillow. The headache turned into a migraine that caused her such unbearable pain that by the time she got to Sunday she said "enough is enough" and called the GP.
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