Has anyone had these symptoms?

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Hi,

I just joined and I just woke up from 22 years of being sick and

wondering why? It was not until a few weeks ago that I even

connected that my saline implants could be the hidden cause of my

troubles.

I was implanted (and I still am.... yikes!) in 1979 with Heyer

Schulte implants 1620 inflated with 175 cc of normal saline and 1630

was filled with 250cc of NS with 20mg of SolUMedrol placed in each

implant.

A few years after this I started having problems with my left

shoulder. I had a ton of pain and it would freeze up on me... I

started with injections of cortisone and I have had them off and on

through out the years when the soulder is too painful.

In more recent years I have had a lot of visiual problems. I was

reading my Bible at the kitchen table one day in 1996 all of a sudden

the pages looked some what like this: " F od so l ved th w rld th

H ga " the letters where gone! That freaked me out! But then what

made this worse was the fact that the next thing that I remembered is

that I was sitting on the floor in my bathroom with no clue as to how

I got there... I wasn't sure if I could even talk at that time. The

doctors told me I was having phantom migraine headaches this of

course was better than the possible brain tumor they thought that I

had at first.

Now I am having double vision! " Every now and then " I my vision will

become blurred or I will see a persons eyes on their cheeks!

King couldn't come up with some of the freaky things that I've seen

through my eyes lately! lol

The doctor told me that I had " Atypcial MS " this was then ruled out

by a specialist who only deals with MS patients after he reviewed my

records... and this was also after I found out that I developed an

allergy to Steroids... I had 1000 mg. of SolUMedrol given to me over

3 days it was continued with the use of Benedryl taken orally 1 hour

before I got my 2nd and 3rd IV's because I started breaking out in

hives before the first dose was finished. I cann't take the oral

dose pack either it made me very very sick.

Now I am left with the diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue, Chronic Pain,

Fibromyalgia and periperal neuropathy.

I have pain daily since the early 1980's. I am more stiff and

painful in the AM's. I have always contributed this to the fact that

I was a womens professional bull rider for about 3 years before I

broke my back in 4 places in 1991. But looking back over my medical

records from years ago I realized that I had a lot of these symptoms

and problems before I took up the sport of bull riding...

It's like the things that seem so " normal " to me today came on very

slowly and I didn't realize that things were changing for me. When I

started doing the visual things a few years ago I couldn't shun those

symptoms off and make excuses for them... basically they freaked me

out big time and I had to tell someone about them.

I forget things all of the time, I don't have memory of a lot of the

years gone by and no I don't take drugs or drink... I have difficulty

with speach sometimes by slurring my speach or forgetting what I was

saying in the middle of a sentence or by not using the correct

word.

I remember being in the middle of an intersection a few years

back and I couldn't figure out how to turn... horns started honking

and I was in a fog just sitting in the intersection without a clue as

to how I should get myself out of it. Lucky for me someone got angry

and pulled around me and I followed that person through the

intersection. (Thanks God! )

My eyes are so dry that I can hardly wear my contacts well I do wear

them sometimes and I have to " peel " them off of my eyes... ouch! My

throat hurts so much that it is difficult to even drink water

sometimes. My mouth is dry and I drink water all of the time I'm

talking over a gallon a day. Of course I'm in the bathroom about

every 15 to 30 minutes a day and at least 3 to 5 times at night. I

had a nerve in my arm transposed (moved over) a few years ago and I

still drop things with my left hand. I had a total hysterectomy two

years ago because of fibroids thus I had the periods from the pit of

hell. I have had cystic breasts for years and since I got married

two years ago (right before my hysterectomy) I have continue to gain

weight. I have gained over 60 pounds without changing my diet or my

activies. I was in a car accident two years ago 2 months right

before I got married and the air bag hit my chest so hard that my

right breast was the color of an eggplant for almost 3 months. It

also hit my transposed nerve in my left forearm and that trufully

hurt worse than the breast because I didn't know about the breast

until I got undressed later that night. Since this accident that

former eggplant colored breast seems to have sagged to my knees... do

you think that it ruptured? Eeeewww!

Since that time my spinal tap was pretty normal except for basic

mylin protiens were elevated other wise it was normal. My evoked

potential eye test was a bit prolonged too. My T-7 showed a very low

T-3 uptake on the thyroid... who knows what that all means or if it

is related to the implants?

As I wait to see if my insurance will pay for an MRI of my breast and

or send me to a plastic surgeon for explantation I sit in awe of how

much I don't know about any of this.

Please feel free to email me if you too have had any of these

symptoms and let me know what you found out about them.

Thanks to all of you for being here for others and me... it's nice to

know I'm not crazy or alone and if I am nuts then it's nice to be

nuts with the rest of you nice ladies... validation is a wonderful

healing tool isn't it? God Bless and keep you all. Keep in touch!

Deb

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