Lani's story please read

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Thought this was really important for the saline site. Please ladies read

this

----- Original Message -----

From: " Lani (by way of ilena rose) " <lani@...>

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Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 1:53 PM

Subject: my story.....please post

> I'm a 35 yrs old and always wanted implants not for the reasons most

> wanted them for, mine was more of a clothing reasons. I wanted to be

able

> to buy anything and look good, well I looked good all right and what it

> did for my self esteem was fantastic.I had the time of my life , and a

> very large price to pay...... But I'm here to tell u I wish I would of

> thought & and did more research before getting them, I just figured a lot

> of my friends have them and no problems and a lot of famous people got

> them and u really don't hear to many bad things going wrong with them. So

> why not.

>

> My life has been a living hell, if that girl could see me she would

> change her mind. (i hope) I like everyone else wanted them never thinking

> anything bad would happen to me, however it did . I should clarify that

> nothing went wrong with the implant itself ,its how my body is responding

> to them.

>

> Here is the last 3 yrs........... Within one month my tongue went numb,

> then I started getting tired all the time, 2 months later I started

> getting sick .I'm not just talking about a cold here and there I'm saying

> >from Sept till March I had about 20 colds with no exaderation.The

> pharmacy and I are on first name basis...lol I would no sooner get over

> one cold , then 3 days later be coming down with a new one. It was

> horrible. A few months later I started getting a rash on my hand, about

> 2 weeks after that it went to my face, forehead under eyes, chin . I

looked

> like I had a sunburn and acne really bad with blotchy skin.... oh and the

> sun and stress makes it worse. Then came the joint pain, followed by

> fatigue.....Never wanted to get out of bed......

>

> By now I'm thinking what is wrong with me.....could it be lupus cause I

> remembered all those women that had silicone implants came down with

> lupus or some kind of autoumuine disease. ( I have saline so i still was

> not convinced) Well after several doctors, bio-opsys,muscle test, blood

> work and many months later I was diagnosed with lupus, but wait it

> doesn't stop there...... I had to go on several medicines even had to have

> kemo. Several steroid creams, nothing will take the rash away. My body

> will not respond to any of the meds . I wish you could see me you would

> not be able to believe it . And now there saying it could be

> Dermatomoyositis . Can you believe that word try saying it...lol

> Well.......

>

> I had 6 months of fun being able to wear anything I wanted , my self

> esteem was great . But after what I've been thru theses past 3 yrs

should

> be enough to change anyone mind, ( i would hope)going from doctor to

> doctor, them all telling you the same thing " young women get lupus and

> young women get implants " . There is no connection. Up until 2 weeks ago

I

> finally went to a good plastic surgeon (what i mean by good is not

> denying it was the implants) and he has had another patient who

experience

> the same thing a few yrs back, now he said he cant guarantee it is the

> same thing but it could be a allergic reaction to the silicone casing

they

> come in , its very rare but it does happen. So needless to say there

> coming out , and hopefully it will go away. Heck, Id settle for it just

> going away on my hands and face.

>

> So If that girl mother would like her daughter to meet me and see what

> could happen to her I would be happy too, here's some advice if she saved

> enough to get them, she should save about the same to get them out ,just

> incase. PS. I have pictures there not that attractive if you would like

to

> see plus the lighting is not all that great. Its kinda hard to see it on

> my face

>

>

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Yep another one suffers because of the lure of breast implants.

Sad

----- Original Message -----

From: perlesetlacet@...

Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 4:58 PM

Subject: Re: Lani's story please read

How very sad. One more victim.