Re: Illness/Explant Questions/Erie PA

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, the neorological stuff is what is had me running to get explanted! I had muscle spasms, wierd sensations under the skin, twitch, twitch twitch. Was tested for MS, came out ok. Bells palsy attack, Hashimotos, been told I have all the symtoms of Fibromalgia, and meet 11 points out of the 18, testing + for Rhematoid Arthrits,(but do not believe I have it) found through a live cell I had an yeast overgrowth with leaky gut snydrome. I am 28 years old, and have been tested for cancer on a thyroid nodule, been through about 100 tests, only to find the truth myself. I had severe stiff hand anf feet joint stiffness, muscle pain, hair loss, headaches from hell, neck pain, dizzy spells, constipation, and dry skin. The truth was: They were killing me! I was explanted by Dr Kolb about 4 months ago, I had it covered by my ins, and am slowly feeling better, blood work greatly improving!

My surgery took almost 7 hours as my capsules were full of nasty infection, all the way down to my rib cage. I had mine for 8 years (too long) and now thanks to Dr Kolb, as well as the girls here with detoxing tips (esp Patty) I am on my way to healing, and freedom from this mess! I cant tell you how great I do feel that they are out, and when I hold the containers they were in, I cant believe what a heavy burden I had in my chest so close to my heart for so long! If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. You are on your way here on this site though.The girls are great! Good Luck to you.

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Welcome to our board. I am glad you finally posted. Actually, receiving letters like yours is really hard for me--I am so glad that you've come for help, but at the same time, reading about your suffering brings tears to my eyes, especially knowing you have children and have been struggling so long and going to so many doctors. I am glad you have been lurking and getting to know all of us, and so you won't be surprised when I tell you that unfortunately, YOU are another victim of the "safe" saline implant. I can say that with a great amount of certainty, because all of your symptoms and your whole experience with doctors happens over and over and over again, you just have a different name. Like I said, this gets really hard hearing stories like yours over and over again.

, you story is classic....so many symptoms, so many tests, nothing ever coming up that is specific as to why you are so sick, only more questions, more drugs, more tests...it's time to get off that merry go round, and I hope you will be willing to take that step. You do need to get your implants out if you ever want to have the hope of healing and returning to a normal life. Many have done it, many others are doing it. I have a normal life once again, and I can honestly say that I am so glad the implants are gone. I wish I had never had them.

I know this is so very hard....no one wants to depart with the implants that have given us self confidence, joy, pleasure and delight. I went through the whole denial thing, as did . Yet, the most important thing in your life is having your health, for without your health, how can you be the mom and wife you want to be? It is a miserable state to be in, I've been there. Daryl is there now, and so many others that don't even write to this board. The suffering is tremendous

[Guest guest]

This is a great letter, , and I just want you to know how much I love you for your dedication to helping the sick women. I know you have a hectic life now, and sometimes it seems like its tempting to just put all this behind us, and move on, forget about implants totally......so to have you here, I am so grateful. And that goes for all you other women who continue to post, , Martha, Daryl, Dr. Kolb, Lani, Leanda, and the many other unnamed women. Thank you so much for having the hearts of gold that you all do.

Love,

Patty

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

From: Heer

Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 2:42 PM

Subject: Re: Illness/Explant Questions/Erie PA

Hi ! My name is I can tell that we have allot of things in common. I don't post too much anymore because my life is so hectic and I really don't have too much time and also because I felt the need to put a bit of distance between myself and my issues with implants, however when I saw your post I had to write to you to let you know how much in common we do have.

I esp. felt just like you about my sex life and about the "what ifs" but I also think that any of us in this situation feel concerned about how we will look and feel without the implants. I mean I was single when I had my explant and I new what sad shape my boobies were in before implants, how would I ever have sex again was what haunted me allot. Then there were the questions, what if I not only ended up with no breasts, or ugly scared breasts, but what if I was still so sick like I was! Oh man the thoughts drove me so crazy, but it finally dawned on me, this is just me personally but others may agree. I was laying around, on one of my many days off work and crying and in pain and dizzy and thought, "what good is my life with these big fake boobs if I am not happy or healthy"? I realized then and there that I had to do something, and I took action, something that can be tremendously hard to do when you feel like crap. I got up, off the couch and called Dr Feng and just did it, took the chance and made the appt and then sent in the money to hold it and that was the hardest part for me. The rest just sort of happened as if it were a blur, and about a month later I was in Cleveland and getting explanted. It was scary but man am I glad I did it! Today I live a totally new life, one where I am not sick all the time, where I have energy, and yes a sex life that is good, in fact awesome. My husband (yes I got married after explant) loves me for me, not because of a couple of bags of saline in my chest! Yes I admit it has been hard, and yes I have my moments where I look at myself naked and wish god had given me a little more in the boobie dept, but realistically I am just normal now, a normal 38 year old woman with a normal life, and a buffed body most women my age would kill for even with my little boobs. I try not to focus on boobs, sometimes I see implanted women and wonder, not about why she is seemingly happy but when it will strike her too, and I feel sorry for them mostly. Maybe it does not get everyone, but regardless there are so many lurking out there and the ones who are not even on line, who are suffering because of implants. I remember getting on line and being shocked by what I saw and wondering how I got myself into this whole mess. Ya know what though? I am glad I got implants, and in many ways grateful for what I have been through, while it has been the worse thing ever, I also know it has made me twice as strong and twice as appreciative of all that I have now in my life.

Oh yeah one thing you said that is not really true is that most of us have been diagnosed with a real disease, that is not at all true, in fact most of us were told it was all in our heads or that we were just depressed, in fact I even tried to believe that one, ha took anti depressants to see if it helped but it just made me crazier! I swear those drugs made me feel like total crap. I wanted to tell you too that I have taken some of the stuff your on, the effexor made me so nauseated and dizzy, and the vicodin made me constipated, and made me addicted. I had to switch to other pain meds and those also made me very constipated, a problem I still have to this day at times if I do not eat carefully. I am two years post explant and now I take only my Armour thyroid and some restoril for sleep, and that is it. I am so happy with my choice of plastic surgeons and can only say that I feel very connected to my Dr because she helped me to overcome my illness and look good after my lift. Dr Feng is an awesome PS and she is probably not far from you. I also know that Dr Kolb is good at getting people well too, and she knows how to get insurance to pay for explant, something I did not know about when I had mine. It was pricey but I look so good I am happy with Dr Feng! I cannot even find my scars anymore and I have 13 year old breasts for the rest of my life, how can I complain!

I will include you and Daryl in my prayers as I always pray for all sick implant women, this is something that I almost died over and so no matter how far I move on in my life it is something that I will never ever forget about, I will always try to stay connected and to help others who need it.

If there is anything I can do to help you, let me know.

I care and I think that when the time is right you will make the choice to live a life with health rather than big fake boobs.

good luck and god bless you