Re: Re: Still NO Implants.....and I'm still here! :)

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BIG {{{Hug!}}} back, Tina!

I'm so thankful for your wisdom in this....oh, how I wish I could go back in time and change my decision. I wish I had done as much research as you. Stay strong! And remember how special you are, just the way God made you!

Hugs,

Patty

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From: Tina

Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 9:48 AM

Subject: Re: Still NO Implants.....and I'm still here!

Thank you so much Patty,and the rest of you that allow me to be here. Although I do not have implants and have not experienced what you have all been through,the reason why I stay in this group is I REALLY need support and encouragement to NOT get implants.Patty~ you couldn't be more right in your response to my post.I am in the Beauty Industry....quite a few of my co-workers have implants...some have had them for MANY years with NO complications....or so they say.Although getting implants are indeed very tempting...particularly when I am not feeling good about myself at times...what I have noticed is my feelings about myself change like the weather~ but the TRUE facts of Breast Implants DO remain the same.I'm not a Doctor....but I have researched this topic EXTREMELY well.Visually speaking....it is a temptation... BUT the fact that remains is that the Implant envelopes are comprised of Silicone and VERY harsh chemicals which are ALL toxic...and it would depend on how strong a person's immune system would be in first fighting off a foreign object that has been put in the body...and THEN secondly...fighting off all the MANY toxic chemicals that the implants are made of.For instance look at why it takes cigarette smokers a long time sometimes to develope cigarette related diseases...it takes a LONG time of EXPOSURE to the chemicals in cigarettes for people to develope irreversible damage....and yet DENIAL is the big issue as most smokers don't think health problems WILL eventually occur to them.You are correct in what you told me Patty at one time..that implants are "time-bombs" as it certainly seems that way with Implants as it is with smoking ciggarettes.I wish I researched ciggarettes before I smoked my first one many years ago...but I am happy to say by the grace of God I was able to stop smoking one day at a time...for 16 years now. In my heart I know I would be foolish to think that with the knowlege I've aquired through research that "if" I were to get implants "I" would be an exception to the rule.........my luck JUST doesn't work that way.These days I am working on me from the "inside" out ..... (it's VERY difficult with life issues I've had recently)...instead of the "outside" in.Thanks again for your encouragement Patty...it really meant alot. {{{Hugs!}}} Tina