Re: - good news for all you scheduled for explant - To Lo

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Lo - thanks so much for your message. I'm having mine explanted on

11/7 and I am counting the minutes at this point. I find it so

interesting that you experienced the same thing with your dad that I

did with my husband. He dismissed all of my complaints and thought I

was being neurotic, and only within the past few weeks started taking

me seriously. I was going to have this surgery with or without him,

so luckily he woke up and will be there to support me. Had he been

in my corner all along, I probably would have had them removed months

ago, but I felt so alone in my world which had suddenly gotten so

small. Luckily I've only had them in for 6 months, but my symptoms

started right away and are getting pretty severe at this point. I

see there are alot of women with supportive men in their lives, too,

so I don't want to generalize - but in my case the person I really

needed in my corner was off in his own corner.

My joints are very swollen and sore, my muscles ache, and seeing

testimonials from people really helps me have hope that my pain will

end soon as well. I've had heartburn since about a week after

surgery that has not gone away, and this anxious feeling. I always

had low blood pressure, like 110/60, and when I recently went to the

doctor it was like 140/90. I don't know if that's from the stress,

or if it's because my body is fighting the implants so hard that it's

messing everything up. I also have to take enzymes when I eat

because I wasn't digesting my food very well.

The implants never gave me confidence, it seems like they took away

my confidence. I don't really know why I got them in the first

place, because at this point in my life, I felt comfortable being

small breasted. Just a really bad judgement call. I treat them

almost as if they're not there, I don't wear anything that

accentuates them, I don't look in the mirror at them when I get

dressed, I never wanted to accept them as part of my body because I

knew they were making me sick and I did not want to get used to

them. I liked how I looked better in clothes without them, too. When

I get home from the surgery, I'm burning my 34C bra's. I hope mine

look ok once they settle down after the surgery, but like you it's

more important for me to feel good.

Thanks again for checking in, it really helps people like me who are

feeling sick and hoping to get better.

Sis

--- In , " lolosky3 " <lolosky3@y...>

wrote:

>

> 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

>