Fw: Implants and hyper thyroidism ...

[Guest guest]

Could any of you who have had this condition and removal of the thyroid

respond to this on the group, and I will tally up the results and let Ilena

know? Sad this is happening all over, and the same old lines are used

everywhere!

Thanks

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

From: " ilena rose " <ilena2000@...>

<ilena@...>

Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 6:38 AM

Subject: Implants and hyper thyroidism ...

>

> As some of you know, I am currently in Latin America ... speaking out and

> writing on this God forsaken issue.

>

> We are staying with friends right now, who live in a very rural area, with

> few Gringos (North Americans) around ...

>

> Yesterday we were invited to a pot luck down a dirt road ... and when I

saw

> the beautiful woman who was the owner of the house, altho very small

> breasted, I KNEW she had implants and was having health challenges before

I

> ever really talked to her.

>

> When we got a chance to talk privately, I learned indeed, she was quite

ill

> ... in fact, she was having her thyroid removed in 2 weeks ... her doctors

> told her that it was the only solution to her very enlarged heart. She had

> suffered for several years with hyper thyroidism ... and of course, never

> connected the fact that she had aging saline implants in her with her

myriad

> of medical problems.

>

> After we spoke for a while, a woman physician, half Costa Rican/ half

> Canadian joined us ... although she was open to the possibility that there

> might be some " tenuous " connection ... she quoted all the typical medical

> blah blah ... " no causal connection has ever been able to be found " ...

> " same # of women with or without implants get diseases A, B, and C " ...

etc.

> etc. etc.

>

> It was quite astounding to me ... in the middle of this jungle setting ...

> to have connected with this woman ... who went from abundant good health

....

> to near collapse in the 14 years after implantation ... and is now on the

> verge of losing her thyroid ... yet no one had suggested that she remove

her

> implants. She kept repeating, " but they are JUST saline, NOT silicone ... "

> even after I explained more about them ...

>

> We're having lunch together later this week ...

>

> She isn't the first woman I've met who had her thyroid removed ... was

> wondering how many of you have this similar experience ...

>

> With love to all

>

> Ilena

> http://www.BreastImplantAwareness.org

>

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