A young woman had to relearn how to walk and talk after what she initially believed was a severe headache turned out to be a stroke - potentially linked to both her condition and the pill. At just 21 years old, Phoebe O’Shaughnessy, now 22, began experiencing excruciating headaches so intense that she was unable to eat. When she started having absent seizures, she was admitted to hospital where she lost her ability to speak. A CT scan confirmed she had suffered a stroke, leaving her bedridden