Kristi's post to 's board

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Kristi has been so brave to tell her story on MTV, and wouldn't ya

know that there are girls out there who just don't want to hear it????

What a shame that Kristi has to defend herself from morons like that.

She made her point though, and it is the truth: It is time to stop

denying that saline implants are dangerous!

Patty

http://www.implantinfo.com/cgi-local/index.cgi?read=282374

HERE'S MY FULL STORY

Posted By: kristi <SAPHIRE435@...>

Date: Friday, 15 December 2000, at 11:18 p.m.

I know many people are aggrivated with my story and I think alot of

it is

because people are worried. Tons of you have written me and wanted to

know

alot of things, so I am going to tell the group my story here so

everyone

can read it. I had my implants put in May of 1996. I had to prior

medical

problems and was very active, no allergies or anything. Six months

after I

got my implants my blood pressure started suddenly dropping and I

would

pass out. Finally to the point that I was clinically dead for a few

minutes. My cardiologist put me on meds which worked for awhile, but I

steadily became worse. Eventually I was fainting again. Next the

doctors

found and ulcer, so I was treated for that. Then my vision started

getting

really bad and I was having terrible headaches. So my prescription was

changing every few months. Well by 1998 I was having seizure like

spells

and diagnosed with epilepsy. I didnt believe I had epilepsy so I

ended up

making an appt with one of the best neurologists in the U.S. He saw no

epileptic activity. Once again I was told it was my blood pressure. By

this point I was seeing doctors all over the south. By the summer of

99 I

could not even function. My hair had fallen out like crazy, I could

not

remember anything. Went from a 4.0 to a 2.0, eventually got to the

point

where I would not even recognize my parents. (I was back living at

home by

this time) So my parents packed me up and brought me to Houston to a

diagnostic center. After many doctors, tons of tests and 18 tubes of

blood.. The doctors told me that I had an autoimmune disease caused

from

silicone and that I needed to have my implants removed. I had them

removed

about a month later and now a year later I am fine. I have not passed

out

in over a year, i no longer need glasses. I graduate college tomorrow

and

I feel great. I left out many episodes in here like the heart attack.

I am

getting ambushed for telling my story and all I wanted to do was to

educate. I don't expect for women to stop getting implants because

they

are dangerous. I mean smoking kills too, but everyone smokes... I

know I

am just an unlucky one, but I think people need to stop denying that

this

is dangerous. Have you ever read the chemical makeup of an implant and

actually looked up each ingredient? I have and its horrible! Take time