HOUSTON - 27-year-old Kayion Reed is suing Pfizer, claiming one of their popular birth controls caused her to develop a brain tumor.

A life-changing diagnosis

The backstory:

Reed says at 19 years old, she began taking the Pfizer-produced birth control shot Depo Provera .

She says she began to experience severe headaches and went to the doctor for an MRI during the time period, but the test was normal.

She continued taking the shot until 2020, about four years of continued use.

Reed says her headaches worsened over time and, in 2023, she had an experience that urged her to go back to the hospital for further testing.

"One day I was on the phone with my sister and my left arm went numb," Reed said.

This time, doctors did find something: a meningioma . The benne brain tumor was

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