Meningioma related to the birth control shot.
The Record became the first to highlight the plights of multiple of victims left with bulging eyes, sight loss, epilepsy and brain tumours earlier this year.
Five brave women have spoken to the Record and shared photographs of their serious health problems after years on the jab.
Kirsty Moore was diagnosed with a tumour in 2021, but despite four operations the mass has grown on her optic nerve - she has blamed a contraceptive jab she used for 21 years
Kirty Moore, 37, from Dundee, began taking the Depo-Provera shot at the age of 16.
Lindsay Tinney, 50, took the Depo-Provera shot for seven years before she came off the injection to try for a baby in 2004.
Thompsons Solicitors has confirmed it will help victims of Depo-Provera to seek legal damages after the Record highlighted the plights of multiple women left with life-altering injuries.
The mother of a woman who died after taking the Depo-Provera injection is now among hundreds of women in the UK seeking legal advice. | ITV National News
JENNY Keepe claims ditching her fake lashes helped save her life - as they hid symptoms of a brain tumour caused by her contraception. The...
JENNY Keepe claims ditching her fake lashes helped save her life - as they hid symptoms of a brain tumour caused by her contraception. The bar...
Tammy Croston, 47, Trish Saunders, 45, and Donna MacDonald, 53, were each left with meningiomas - non-cancerous tumours - inside their skulls after taking the injection for several years.
Jenny Keepe loved her long lashes - but dispensed with them during the Covid pandemic while spending much time at home. It was a decision she credits with saving her life
Hormonal contraception, including birth control pills and intrauterine devices (IUDs), is not associated with an increased prevalence of a brain pressure disorder called idiopathic intracranial hypertension, according to a meta-analysis published on March 25, 2026, in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
A woman revealed she'd been diagnosed with four brain tumours after taking injectable birth control, called medroxyprogesterone, for 21 years.
Donna MacDonald, from Kilmarnock, used the contraceptive Depo-Provera on and off for 28 years.
The health and hygiene worker from Bolton was then stunned to be asked by her neurologist if she had ever used contraceptive jab Depo-Provera.
Shelley says she would never have used the medication if she had known the risk
Shelley says she would never have used the medication if she had known the risk
Shelley says she would never have used the medication if she had known the risk
Tammy Croston, 47, is fighting a massive global company after claiming several years of contraceptive jabs led to four tumours on her brain and vision loss in her right eye
Tammy Croston, from Cupar in Fife, will meet with Willie Rennie next week after being told her London-based solicitor could not take on her case due to jurisdiction laws.