Fw: 'A nightmare from beginning to end' ~ Oil leaked from one ofLynsey's implants (re-post)

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Subject: 'A nightmare from beginning to end' ~ Oil leaked from one

ofLynsey's implants (re-post)

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_780000/780097.stm

>

> Tuesday, 6 June, 2000, 16:17 GMT 17:17 UK

> 'A nightmare from beginning to end'

>

> Oil leaked from one of Lynsey's implants

>

> As the government advises the removal of breast implants containing soya

> bean oil, one of the 5,000 women who have received them explains how her

> health has been affected.

>

> Lynsey Irvine, 24, from Edinburgh, had the implants put in in December

> 1997 for cosmetic reasons.

>

> She was told they would be safer compared to silicon.

>

> " Right after the operation I noticed something was wrong. I had pain from

> the word go, but my surgeon said it was just post-operative pain, " she

> said.

>

> " Then about six months after the operation I noticed a big bubble that

> appeared on the left side of my chest - it was the oil that had been

> leaking.

>

> " Once the doctors saw that they took the implant straight away, because

> they thought it was going to burst. "

>

> Open wound

>

> " For two or three months the wound had to be left open so that the oil

> could drain away. Every two days or so the dressing over the wound would

> be saturated with oil.

>

> " It smelt horrible and the whole thing was an absolute nightmare from

> beginning to end. "

>

> She was advised to have the other implant removed, but her health

> insurance company told her she had to pay for the operation herself.

> It seems amazing that they could think these implants were so safe and now

> think they are so dangerous

>

> Lynsey Irvine " I had to wait to have the right implant removed on the NHS

> and it was awful - for a few months I had one A cup and one D cup. "

>

> " Quite a lot of oil leaked from my implant and was in my system. They

> tried to get it out, but of course, they couldn't get it all out.

>

> " When someone says the word cancer to you, of course you start thinking

> the worst.

>

> " And they haven't really told us what is going on. It seems amazing that

> they could think these implants were so safe and now think they are so

> dangerous. "

>

> 'Sharp pain'

>

> Mrs Irvine, the mother of three-year-old Joe and 10-week-old Lucy, is also

> concerned about the new advice that women with the implants should avoid

> becoming pregnant or breastfeeding until they are removed.

>

> " I was breastfeeding Lucy, but I had to stop because I had a very sharp

> pain in my left breast.

>

> " I know I have had the implants removed, but it is very hard to know what

> the situation is now. "

>

> She said she would warn any woman considering having implants to think

again.

>

> " It is difficult to dissuade someone when they have got their mind set on

> it, because women are always faced with images of the perfect body and it

> can be very difficult psychologically, but I would tell them to really

> think about it. "

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