Re: this is my story- for all women considering implants please read

March 29, 2005

Hi Lo,

Someone did hear you, I did and your story has made a huge implact on me. I am

so sorry you have gone through so much, especially at a young age. Your story,

and others here like it, have stopped me in my tracks. I have a surgery date

for

augmentation on 4/22 -- an augmentation you stopped me from getting.

Thank you so much for posting about the real problems with saline implants.

Obviously they aren't as inert as our plastic surgeons would like to have us

believe.

I am seeing my ND today and I'm sure he'll be pleased that I have come to my

senses without him having to kick me.

Kenda

> Dear new members,

> I'm only 21 years old, I've had my implants less than 2 years and

> take my advice, do not get them. I am not out to tell people what

> choices to make and am not usually an opinionated person what so

> ever. Never would I spend the time to write this unless I thought

> maybe if you heard my story it would change one of your minds and

> possibly save one person's health from turning into what mine is.

> I got into a hit and run accident while walking home at age 18 and

> it left me with a lot of scars and body issues. I was finally

> feeling better months later and fully recovered health wise, but

> mentally I was very depressed and had post-traumatic stress

> disorder. So in my parents' attempt to make me feel better about my

> body they told me they'd do or pay for anything. I had always felt

> awkward about my A cup boobs, I was always a pretty self-consious

> person and until my late teens looked pretty gangly. So I actually

> went through with it and got a breast augmentation.

> At first they looked good, and actually did help a little with my

> self esteem. I got on the birth control pill as well as started

> eating more. Suddenly I felt self consious about my chest more than

> I ever did before because I gained just a little weight and they

> went from a full B/small C to a big C/small D. People were

> commenting on how huge my boobs were, and again I didn't show any

> clevage because they started to look fake and like the fake balls

> that they are. They even felt a little heavy and started getting

> more achy. I regretting getting them a little but I wasn't about to

> tell my parents I wanted them out after all that money they had just

> spent on me to make me happy, so I figured in a couple of years if

> they still felt fake me and I still felt awkward about having such

> large boobs on a skinny body to explant when I had the money after

> graduating from school.

> I started noticing about 2 months after my implantation that my

> breasts had sharp pains in them. My doctor said they were probably

> still " settling " and it only happened occasionally so I dismissed

> it. Soon, I had shooting pains up my arms. I thought I had been

> using the computer too much and completely unconnected it to the

> implants. The arm pain turned into wrist pain, and then crippling

> pain in my hands. The doctors had no idea what was wrong since I

> tested negative for carpal tunnel as well as rheumatory arthritis,

> and I'm too young to have osteoarthritis becasue I have never broke

> or strained my wrists and hands too much. I have lived with that

> pain for about 18 months when suddenly it seemed to have gone away.

> A few weeks after it went away I started noticing aches in all of my

> joints. Horrible aches like pins and needles. It was horrible, and

> I was convinced I had some disease but again I tested negative for

> rheumatory arthritis and all other tests were negative. I saw on

> MTV Kacey Long's story about her implants and it clicked in that

> they could be the culprit.

> In just the past 3 months I have begun to get additional symptoms,

> pains in my spine, muscles, joints, muscle twitches everywhere that

> are very frighetening, and worse yet brain fog. I used to be a very

> articulate writer and now I'll be trying to write a midterm and I

> can't think of the word I want and my head feels like I have someone

> squeezing it. All my symptoms come and go at different times, but I

> know it all started with shooting pains in my breasts. A girl knows

> these things about her body and I can just feel it literally and

> figuratively that it stems from my chest.

> I can't explant until late May when I'm out of school because I

> can't miss any classes and I am SO anxious and miserable. Some days

> my life feels like hell, I feel like I'm 90 years old, other days

> are better. I felt so hopeless but these women on this site who

> have recovered give me hope. They don't know how they've been

> angels to me and feel I found this site for a reason, because fate

> wanted to lead me towards my key to good health. And I am so

> grateful for Peggy who made this site because without it I would

> still be oblivious to what my health issues were from. I hope I can

> inspire just one of you to reconsider.

> Although all my doctors have told me they doubt it is related, my

> plastic surgeon has told me that it may be worth a shot to take them

> out. He told me he can remember 2 times when women had similar

> symptoms that were dismissed as Fibromyalgia (which is a diagnosis

> for someone who has a ton of weird symptoms and tests negative for

> everything else), but these 2 women whose doctors thought they had

> fibromyalgia didn't care what the doctor thought because they hated

> their implants and the way they made them feel and got explanted

> anyways. He said those specific women came back and let him know

> they felt SO much better, but he said there were many cases where

> women just happened to get diseases while having the implants so

> getting them out wouldn't cure anything if this is the case. The

> trouble with studies is no hard proof that in some cases women do

> get sick in several ways, because many symptoms that are aquired are

> not able to be tested for in blood tests (such as aches and pains)

> and if you read through the stories you will see that so many do.

> It makes me so sad that many women are oblivious the implants are

> the reason for their health problems and live with the poision to

> their bodies just sitting there as lumps in their chest. I KNOW

> it's my body freaking out from the silicone lining of the saline

> implant because I have read through ALL the message board and I read

> through several women with the SAME exact symptoms. In my ears I

> can't wear anything but gold because my body freaks out and my

> earlobe becomes infected from many metals, and the silicone shell is

> made from many similar chemcials.

> I was finally healthy and living my life how I wanted and then this

> nightmare came from getting these implants. Many of our bodies are

> having a reaction, and if you are considering implants, I don't know

> if you will get sick, I know many women obviously don't. If you do

> decide to go through with it I wish you luck but if you were my

> friend I would plead for you not to on hands and knees if I had to.

> But eventually many do get sick, and because of the wide array of

> symptoms, they may not even make the connection. Any type of

> irritation my body has currently I account totally to the implants,

> and with them you will never know if that is the reason you are sick

> with anything. Every woman's body reacts differently with them,

> some well, some poorly (thousands more than actually know it), but

> it's completely unpredictable from person to person.

> Think about it like this- put 2 car tires into a woman's chest and

> maybe some would be fine, but I don't think that I would, and even

> if right away I recovered from the inital shock of foreign objects

> in my chest, after years of those tires in my chest I might get a

> flat tire (leakage), or an infection around it I would imagine. We

> all eventually need tires replaced no matter how expensive or

> durable they are. They don't last forever, and mice have died by

> eating the silicone shell. I feel sick thinking about all this and

> I should really stop ranting because I am not trying to complain.

> I'm just trying to help and I'm sorry if I upset anyone. I am

> awaiting anxiously my explant so my health can start regaining it's

> orginal state. I feel God picked me to react to them badly for a

> reason, as well as many of us I don't think they're right for every

> body, and honestly now I don't think they're right for anybody.

> It's kind of like smoking, I know people who smoke for the quick

> buzz or gratification they get from it. But it takes a toll on

> their health, wallet, and eventually they will regret it when they

> are stuck with the habit (or in our case the implants), both which

> continue to make us feel worse.

> To the women on this support group, I want to let you know I feel

> we were chosen to read each other's messages for a reason. I have

> been tested by God or fate so many times in my life and I am so

> young, but feel I have had enough pain and life experience for 5

> lifetimes. I feel I have always had good intution and I beat up

> myself everyday about not following mine about my breasts,

> especially after the intial symptoms- I may have never developed the

> more recent ones.

> I don't think God or whoever it is that watches over us wants us to

> be miserable but he chooses for us to become stronger through

> situations and trials such as these. Maybe mother nature is trying

> to tell us something. I try to remain positive as we all should

> because with time I have read so many women get better, almost every

> woman explanted over time has been close to 100%. I am so miserable

> I can't explain and there's no guarentee I will ever be 100% and I

> am in the prime of my life- I'm just a baby. Please don't do it

> because it is painful for me to see so many beautiful girls get

> them. I feel so naive and I was so uneducated what I was doing to

> my body.

> When I get them out my breasts will be saggier than before and I'll

> still be so young with saggy breasts but I will love them how they

> are because I know I'll feel better. I think small breasts are cute

> now, and I wish I could wear a little tank top like I used to and

> not feel like my boobs looked out of control, so I can't wait for

> that. My physical and mental health are in shambles but I do the

> best I can because I know in 2 months I will be there. The

> emergency room will seriously be like an oasis to me, I will be more

> excited then scared. I NEVER in a million years would think I would

> feel so strongly against my very nice looking rack right after I got

> them, they aren't a quick fix, they aren't safe, I don't care what

> anybody ever says again, not even my plastic surgeon who went to

> Harvard Med School and is the head of plastic surgery in his

> department. He's an honest man and even he admitted to me that

> there are no guarentees someone wouldn't react negatively to them,

> that most research hasn't documented anything very profound but not

> much testing has been done. And because a lot of times no blood

> tests or analysis can determine that diseses came and went because

> when we react to implants we don't get any cut and dry diseases we

> just get horrible reactions, so when they are resolved after

> explantation the doctors just have to take your word and sometimes

> think it is all psychological. All I know is that there are real

> women with real problems directly from saline breast implants.

> Don't make the mistake I did and dismiss the accusations that they

> make you sick because it's disputed by doctors. I did and I regret

> it more than anything in my life, even more than someone driving

> into me with a car. Feel free to ask any questions or comment on

> the longest entry of all time(sorry!) I hope someone hears me.

> Thanks again for listening, Lo

March 29, 2005

Thank you Lo,

You said it all so well . . . We've all been there and

understand completely.

Please take very good care of yourself while you're

waiting! . . . It's won't be long!

Take probiotics, drink plenty of water, avoid

chemicals, eat organic and well, no sugar, etc. Hot

Epsom salt baths may help too. Let us know if there's

anything we can do to help!

God Bless,

Rogene

March 29, 2005

hello,

I have been dealing with similiar symptoms for about 3 months and am getting them explanted on monday. i can hardly wait, i am so excited.

lizhomemadesoaper <skaggs@...> wrote:

Hi Lo,Someone did hear you, I did and your story has made a huge implact on me. I am so sorry you have gone through so much, especially at a young age. Your story, and others here like it, have stopped me in my tracks. I have a surgery date for augmentation on 4/22 -- an augmentation you stopped me from getting. Thank you so much for posting about the real problems with saline implants. Obviously they aren't as inert as our plastic surgeons would like to have us believe. I am seeing my ND today and I'm sure he'll be pleased that I have come to my senses without him having to kick me. :)Kenda> Dear new members,> I'm only 21 years old, I've had my implants less than 2 years and > take my advice, do not get them. I am not out to tell people what

> choices to make and am not usually an opinionated person what so > ever. Never would I spend the time to write this unless I thought > maybe if you heard my story it would change one of your minds and > possibly save one person's health from turning into what mine is. > I got into a hit and run accident while walking home at age 18 and > it left me with a lot of scars and body issues. I was finally > feeling better months later and fully recovered health wise, but > mentally I was very depressed and had post-traumatic stress > disorder. So in my parents' attempt to make me feel better about my > body they told me they'd do or pay for anything. I had always felt > awkward about my A cup boobs, I was always a pretty self-consious > person and until my late teens looked pretty gangly. So I actually > went through with it and got a breast

augmentation. > At first they looked good, and actually did help a little with my > self esteem. I got on the birth control pill as well as started > eating more. Suddenly I felt self consious about my chest more than > I ever did before because I gained just a little weight and they > went from a full B/small C to a big C/small D. People were > commenting on how huge my boobs were, and again I didn't show any > clevage because they started to look fake and like the fake balls > that they are. They even felt a little heavy and started getting > more achy. I regretting getting them a little but I wasn't about to > tell my parents I wanted them out after all that money they had just > spent on me to make me happy, so I figured in a couple of years if > they still felt fake me and I still felt awkward about having such > large boobs on a skinny body to explant when I had

the money after > graduating from school.> I started noticing about 2 months after my implantation that my > breasts had sharp pains in them. My doctor said they were probably > still "settling" and it only happened occasionally so I dismissed > it. Soon, I had shooting pains up my arms. I thought I had been > using the computer too much and completely unconnected it to the > implants. The arm pain turned into wrist pain, and then crippling > pain in my hands. The doctors had no idea what was wrong since I > tested negative for carpal tunnel as well as rheumatory arthritis, > and I'm too young to have osteoarthritis becasue I have never broke > or strained my wrists and hands too much. I have lived with that > pain for about 18 months when suddenly it seemed to have gone away. > A few weeks after it went away I started noticing aches in all of my

> joints. Horrible aches like pins and needles. It was horrible, and > I was convinced I had some disease but again I tested negative for > rheumatory arthritis and all other tests were negative. I saw on > MTV Kacey Long's story about her implants and it clicked in that > they could be the culprit. > In just the past 3 months I have begun to get additional symptoms, > pains in my spine, muscles, joints, muscle twitches everywhere that > are very frighetening, and worse yet brain fog. I used to be a very > articulate writer and now I'll be trying to write a midterm and I > can't think of the word I want and my head feels like I have someone > squeezing it. All my symptoms come and go at different times, but I > know it all started with shooting pains in my breasts. A girl knows > these things about her body and I can just feel it literally and

> figuratively that it stems from my chest. > I can't explant until late May when I'm out of school because I > can't miss any classes and I am SO anxious and miserable. Some days > my life feels like hell, I feel like I'm 90 years old, other days > are better. I felt so hopeless but these women on this site who > have recovered give me hope. They don't know how they've been > angels to me and feel I found this site for a reason, because fate > wanted to lead me towards my key to good health. And I am so > grateful for Peggy who made this site because without it I would > still be oblivious to what my health issues were from. I hope I can > inspire just one of you to reconsider.> Although all my doctors have told me they doubt it is related, my > plastic surgeon has told me that it may be worth a shot to take them > out. He told me he can

remember 2 times when women had similar > symptoms that were dismissed as Fibromyalgia (which is a diagnosis > for someone who has a ton of weird symptoms and tests negative for > everything else), but these 2 women whose doctors thought they had > fibromyalgia didn't care what the doctor thought because they hated > their implants and the way they made them feel and got explanted > anyways. He said those specific women came back and let him know > they felt SO much better, but he said there were many cases where > women just happened to get diseases while having the implants so > getting them out wouldn't cure anything if this is the case. The > trouble with studies is no hard proof that in some cases women do > get sick in several ways, because many symptoms that are aquired are > not able to be tested for in blood tests (such as aches and pains) > and if you read through the

stories you will see that so many do. > It makes me so sad that many women are oblivious the implants are > the reason for their health problems and live with the poision to > their bodies just sitting there as lumps in their chest. I KNOW > it's my body freaking out from the silicone lining of the saline > implant because I have read through ALL the message board and I read > through several women with the SAME exact symptoms. In my ears I > can't wear anything but gold because my body freaks out and my > earlobe becomes infected from many metals, and the silicone shell is > made from many similar chemcials. > I was finally healthy and living my life how I wanted and then this > nightmare came from getting these implants. Many of our bodies are > having a reaction, and if you are considering implants, I don't know > if you will get sick, I know many women

obviously don't. If you do > decide to go through with it I wish you luck but if you were my > friend I would plead for you not to on hands and knees if I had to. > But eventually many do get sick, and because of the wide array of > symptoms, they may not even make the connection. Any type of > irritation my body has currently I account totally to the implants, > and with them you will never know if that is the reason you are sick > with anything. Every woman's body reacts differently with them, > some well, some poorly (thousands more than actually know it), but > it's completely unpredictable from person to person. > Think about it like this- put 2 car tires into a woman's chest and > maybe some would be fine, but I don't think that I would, and even > if right away I recovered from the inital shock of foreign objects > in my chest, after years of those tires in my

chest I might get a > flat tire (leakage), or an infection around it I would imagine. We > all eventually need tires replaced no matter how expensive or > durable they are. They don't last forever, and mice have died by > eating the silicone shell. I feel sick thinking about all this and > I should really stop ranting because I am not trying to complain. > I'm just trying to help and I'm sorry if I upset anyone. I am > awaiting anxiously my explant so my health can start regaining it's > orginal state. I feel God picked me to react to them badly for a > reason, as well as many of us I don't think they're right for every > body, and honestly now I don't think they're right for anybody. > It's kind of like smoking, I know people who smoke for the quick > buzz or gratification they get from it. But it takes a toll on > their health, wallet, and

eventually they will regret it when they > are stuck with the habit (or in our case the implants), both which > continue to make us feel worse. > To the women on this support group, I want to let you know I feel > we were chosen to read each other's messages for a reason. I have > been tested by God or fate so many times in my life and I am so > young, but feel I have had enough pain and life experience for 5 > lifetimes. I feel I have always had good intution and I beat up > myself everyday about not following mine about my breasts, > especially after the intial symptoms- I may have never developed the > more recent ones. > I don't think God or whoever it is that watches over us wants us to > be miserable but he chooses for us to become stronger through > situations and trials such as these. Maybe mother nature is trying > to tell us something.

I try to remain positive as we all should > because with time I have read so many women get better, almost every > woman explanted over time has been close to 100%. I am so miserable > I can't explain and there's no guarentee I will ever be 100% and I > am in the prime of my life- I'm just a baby. Please don't do it > because it is painful for me to see so many beautiful girls get > them. I feel so naive and I was so uneducated what I was doing to > my body. > When I get them out my breasts will be saggier than before and I'll > still be so young with saggy breasts but I will love them how they > are because I know I'll feel better. I think small breasts are cute > now, and I wish I could wear a little tank top like I used to and > not feel like my boobs looked out of control, so I can't wait for > that. My physical and mental health are in shambles

but I do the > best I can because I know in 2 months I will be there. The > emergency room will seriously be like an oasis to me, I will be more > excited then scared. I NEVER in a million years would think I would > feel so strongly against my very nice looking rack right after I got > them, they aren't a quick fix, they aren't safe, I don't care what > anybody ever says again, not even my plastic surgeon who went to > Harvard Med School and is the head of plastic surgery in his > department. He's an honest man and even he admitted to me that > there are no guarentees someone wouldn't react negatively to them, > that most research hasn't documented anything very profound but not > much testing has been done. And because a lot of times no blood > tests or analysis can determine that diseses came and went because > when we react to implants we don't get any cut and dry

diseases we > just get horrible reactions, so when they are resolved after > explantation the doctors just have to take your word and sometimes > think it is all psychological. All I know is that there are real > women with real problems directly from saline breast implants. > Don't make the mistake I did and dismiss the accusations that they > make you sick because it's disputed by doctors. I did and I regret > it more than anything in my life, even more than someone driving > into me with a car. Feel free to ask any questions or comment on > the longest entry of all time(sorry!) I hope someone hears me. > Thanks again for listening, LoOpinions expressed are NOT meant to take the place of advice given by licensed health care professionals. Consult your physician or licensed health care professional before commencing any medical treatment. "Do

not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world." - Linus ing, two-time Nobel Prize Winner (1954, Chemistry; 1963, Peace)

March 30, 2005

What a beautiful post you have written!! I can guarantee you if I

had read your post before I got implants, I never would have done

it. I am so sorry for all your problems. I feel especially bad

that so many really young ladies like you are getting implants and

getting sick before they even get married or have families. At

least I was in my late thirties before I started getting sick. I

had the support of my husband and my children when I got them out.

My heart goes out to you and all the others like you. But you will

get the word out. Maybe like Kacey, or others, you will become a

spokesperson or get on tv, etc to get the word out. May is almost

here and then you can get those horrid things out of you and start

down your road to recovery!

I was thinking the other night that we all need to write oprah

winfrey. I know she hasn't responded to some of us in the past, but

maybe if we could all deluge her with letters---especially you

younger ones--maybe someday she would listen and do a show. She has

such a huge following. Heck, if she can tell the truth about the

cattle industry, why can't she help her fellow women out here? I

know I am going to write her. As more and more of us get sick and

find out why, we will reach more and more people out there and

hopefully someday the tide will turn on the popularity of implants.

Keep posting, we love hearing from you.

Hugs

kathy

--- In , " lolosky2 " <lolosky2@y...>

wrote:

>

> Dear new members,

> I'm only 21 years old, I've had my implants less than 2 years and

> take my advice, do not get them. I am not out to tell people what

> choices to make and am not usually an opinionated person what so

> ever. Never would I spend the time to write this unless I thought

> maybe if you heard my story it would change one of your minds and

> possibly save one person's health from turning into what mine is.

> I got into a hit and run accident while walking home at age 18

and

> it left me with a lot of scars and body issues. I was finally

> feeling better months later and fully recovered health wise, but

> mentally I was very depressed and had post-traumatic stress

> disorder. So in my parents' attempt to make me feel better about

my

> body they told me they'd do or pay for anything. I had always

felt

> awkward about my A cup boobs, I was always a pretty self-consious

> person and until my late teens looked pretty gangly. So I

actually

> went through with it and got a breast augmentation.

> At first they looked good, and actually did help a little with my

> self esteem. I got on the birth control pill as well as started

> eating more. Suddenly I felt self consious about my chest more

than

> I ever did before because I gained just a little weight and they

> went from a full B/small C to a big C/small D. People were

> commenting on how huge my boobs were, and again I didn't show any

> clevage because they started to look fake and like the fake balls

> that they are. They even felt a little heavy and started getting

> more achy. I regretting getting them a little but I wasn't about

to

> tell my parents I wanted them out after all that money they had

just