Re: to ashley Breast Implant Sickness- New To The Group

[Guest guest]

Hi - it is so good to hear stories of recovery, as I'm waiting

for my explant and I know I'm doing the best thing for my body that I

can possibly do - but it helps to get affirmations from people who've

been through it all.

Sis

[Guest guest]

dear ash,

I had all these same exact symptoms for at least 10 years. I even went on lexapro 2 years ago, then went off. I am planning to have both of my implants (both ruptured this year) removed. I would have never put them in, if I had know the side effects. Now to get healthy, them must be removed. You need support and knowledge of all the options. I am new to the group too. This place can be very helpful.

Sincerely,

Lori Waldodiana dickieson <scissorstar@...> wrote:

hello ashley.....i can relate to your story so well....i had many of those symptoms and a few more....iam a girl who could do anything... very active....i could barely get out of bed in the end....i was explated two years ago, and now Iam doing amazing.....iam almost 100%. when you get those things out, your body begins healing instantly....we are young so our bodies respond well. your body is fighting a foriegn object right now....you will be so thankful when you get them out....iam such a changed person because of what i went through, i thank god everyday that i lived through the hell i went through with my implants....i have learned to love my small breasts....dianaDIANA D

From: "ashleyhelper2005" <ashleyhelper2005@...>Reply- To: Subject: Breast Implant Sickness- New To The GroupDate: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 04:12:01 -0000Hi Girls! I have read your stories for months and now I feel like I need to tell mine. I am considering getting my breast implants removed in a few weeks. It all began in May 2003 when I got my breast implants put in. I was 22 yrs old and had always had small breasts and the nipples were tubular shaped. In Jan 2004 I began feeling very tired all the time but I was planning for my wedding in St. Lucia which was in Feburary so I thought I may just be tired from all the planing so I didn't think anything of it. Once I got to St. Lucia is when I all began, it was 3 days before my wedding and I woke up one morning and got ready to go to breakfast. I started

feeling very dizzy and when we got down to the breakfast area I almost passed out. I spent the next day in the room crying because I didn't know what was wrong with me. I am so lucky because my husband(to be at the time) was so wonderful, he has taken care of me ever since and I felt great on my wedding day. My flight back home to Atlanta Ga, I had 105 temp and felt like I had the worst case of the flu. I had a headache for about 1 week that I cannot describe. I went to doctors adn they tested my blood. At that time they told me I was alittle anemic, this was a first, adn they even thought about putting me in the hopital. I then got sent to an infectious disease doctor who said nothing was wrong with me. A few months later I came back to her with a lump under my right arm pit, she said once again it was nothing and shot something in it. A week later it was bigger and even more painful than before so I went to my PS who I have

known becuase he put implants in my mother 10 yrs earlier. He sent me to the breast specialists at Peidmont Hospital who were going to biopsy it but my PS said he would remove the lump because it didn't need to be in there. At that time I also got lipo on both legs. When my PS removed the lump he described it as a golf ball of key lime pie and sent it off to the lab. The results: MRSA a terrible staff infection! This was in June 2004. Since Jan 2003 to June 2004 I had hardly worked, and slept, or wanted to sleep most of the time(my daughter was 4 at the time). I never felt right, my heart would race, I would feel dizzy and like I was going to faint all the time. I criedalmost every day. I should mention that before this I have never been sick, never even felt bad! I have always been very healthy. In Sept of 2004 I began having joint pains through my arms, legs, fingers etc. At this time I had a physical at which

everything came out normal again. I have my ANA checked along with many other things. Does any of this sounf familer? I have spent Sept of 2004 up until now waking up in the morning hoping that I won't feel to bad. In June 2005 I was put on Lexepro which has helped alittle. Now when I wake up my main pain is leg soreness, from my calfs all the way around. I don't know what to do. I know I have left so much out of this story but I could write for days about the pain that I have been through in the past few years. So now I think I am to my pointm, although I do not want to do it and I have talked myself out of it several times I guess I am going to try it, pray that it works, and get my breast implants removed. Doctors say that this is not from breast implants, but my PS says he will remove them if I want him to. Thank you so mcyh for letting me read your stories and for listening to

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