Re: Re: So nervous about explant..Cheryl.

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Cheryl, Cheryl, Cheryl,

You can't go on like this. You know that... yes you

do.

What good are breasts if you are too sad and too sick

to enjoy them?

In addition to the enjoyment of the breasts... What

good are they if they rob you of enjoyment of your

boys? What good are they if life sucks and just isn't

worth living? What good are they if our butts are so

big it doesn't matter if we have breasts!!!!(referring

to the weight gain we both spoke of!)

What good are they if you just continue to get sicker

and sicker and sicker?

How about consulting with another doctor? I don't know

Kolb and I'm no one to say whether she does a good job

or not, I have heard she is great... but I can speak

from personal experience about Dr. Feng, she did a

totally unbelievably beautiful job on me. And there is

also a procedure that can be done where fat is taken

from another area to reconstruct the breast... Were

you concave before? I don't know why Kolb would say

that you would be concave.

Keep your chin up...

(((((Hugs))))))

Dawn

--- Cheryl <sunbum256@...> wrote:

> Hi there, Don't believe we've chatted before, but

> everyone else here

> pretty much knows my story. Anyway, I am in exactly

> the same boat as

> you. I went to see Dr. Kolb in Feb. for a consult

> and it was at that

> point that the whole prospect of explant became VERY

> REAL. Like you,

> she told me that I have little to no breast tissue

> of my own once the

> implant and (very large) capsules are removed. Well,

> ever since my

> consult, I've been very depressed (haven't really

> even been posting

> much). This is the only post of yours that I've

> read, but it sounds

> like I may be alot sicker (is that even a word,lol?)

> than you, which

> really doesn't even make the decision to explant any

> easier, knowing

> that post op I'll be flat maybe even concave. I have

> textured, over

> muscle, salines put in in '94, approx. 300cc. I was

> told the same

> thing, after 6-12 months, I could reimplant, what,

> if I still have

> symptoms,then it wasn't the implants making me ill?,

> sounds kinda

> nuts to me. It is true, from all the message boards

> I'm on, I've only

> met about 4 other women willing to admit that they

> are very unhappy

> post explant and are considering reimplanting.

> Lately, I've been trying to boost my immune system

> and have been

> fighting chronic systemic (scalp,mouth,nose,skin &

> vaginal) yeast

> infections. I was hoping to get well enough to be

> reimplanted (in

> diff. site, under muscle) at explant, but Dr. Kolb

> thinks my implants

> and site/capsules are so contaminated that she will

> not consider

> reimplanting at time of explant. She's planning on a

> lift for me,

> also. Guess that's pretty much where I'm at; have

> Dermatology &

> Endocrinology appts. this month, kind of last ditch

> attempts to see

> what else could be going on with me.

> I just wanted to let you know, you're def. not alone

> in the feelings

> you are having. Please feel free to email me, if

> you'd like to chat

> further. Take care of yourself and I wish you luck

> in deciding what

> you are going to do.

> Cheryl

>

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