good news for all you scheduled for explant

[Guest guest]

Hi Ladies!

I know some of you remember me, my name's Lo, I'm 22 years old and I

have been a member for about a year but I haven't posted in a few

months. I had saline under the muscle implants put in when I was 19

and it was the biggest mistake of my life. I developed carpal tunnel

like symptoms within a month which persisted for about a year. After

a year I developed and then pain in all my limbs, shaking, twitching,

headaches, tingling, every weird symptom imaginable. I saw my doctor

and he had no explanation, I didnt have a high ANA therefore it was

rheumatory arthritis, and all other tests came out negative. My

diagnosis was fibromyalgia, a pain and fatigue disorder that doctors

still don't know much about but they know can be brought on by stress

and a number of other things. It's the diagnosis they give people who

they usually don't know what the hell is wrong with them because

there is no test to prove this disorder. I got explanted a few months

ago and I feel unbelievably better. I need to tell you all I'm not

so tired all the time and almost all my fibromyalgia symptoms are

gone. Just this past month I noticed significant differences since I

still have slight pain in my wrists and breasts and sometimes am a

little fatigued or get an occasional twitch when I'm stressed out but

gradually my symptoms have been regressing and I am totally confident

eventually I will be close to 100%. I just wanted to give you all

hope who aren't sure if it is your implants, IT IS. I promise you if

you have fibromyalgia symptoms, it is 99% probable that it is your

implants. I didn't want to lose mine so I kept my implants even

after my instincts told me my pain was from them. I know you spent a

lot of money on them and they give you more confidence, but they

ruined my whole life. I almost dropped out of college last year

because I had a breakdown because I didn't know what the hell was

wrong with me, I thought I had RA and MS and/or was just losing my

mind. I'm getting over my depression finally and I have been

depressed since getting them put in. Doctors told me they weren't

the cause and I didn't want to tell my family health physician

because he was a family friend and I didn't want him to know I had

them, but I told him because he is a brilliant man and I really

needed his medical opinion. Since he saw my progression of symptoms

and looked at the chart from the time I was implanted and when the

progress of my symptoms took place he told me to get them out

immedieatly before my symptoms got worse. He said he didn't know if

it was them but using the facts he had and previous experiences from

his patients who had improved after the explantation he urged me to

remove them. Because of his opinion my dad finally realized I wasn't

a hypochondriac and agreed to pay for then, but what was even more

amazing is that my physican wrote a document saying how he believed

they were the cause of my fibromyalgia and my plastic surgeon also

agreed to sign it so my insurance could pay for all of it. I am

feeling so great now and I just wanted you all to know that you have

hope of feeling so much better. I believe a few months from now I

will be 100% It takes time ladies, but you will only improve when

you have them removed, in the meantime you may unfortunatly gain more

symptoms, like I did because I waited. I know how you feel, it is a

painful, lonely, depressing, hopeless, anxious feeling.

Be healthy, don't lose hope, and I'm here for any questions about my

improvement progress, what symptoms I had/have, what prodcedure I

had, anything! (write my name in the subject because I may miss that

a message is for me). Love you ladies, Rogene, Patty, Beth, I

remember all of your help and I doubt anyone will ever take for

granted the time and effort you put in helping us. I want you all to

know I consider these women who still persist checking this website

daily to help every stranded woman who needs answers out of their own

time are angels. I wish I had the time and the bravery to check the

website everyday but it has been too harsh a reminder and made me too

anxious until now because I am feeling better and want to help as

well. I am so pleased with how my breasts look now, they feel light

and natural and look honestly beautiful (I'm not just saying this to

convince you, I really really like how they look now, I got bigger

since my implantation slightly and it is such a nice natural

difference from those " balls " as I called them). Please do what's

right for your body, and not what looks right for your body. You only

have one, and you have to live how it works or doesn't work for the

rest of your life.

-Lo