For thinking of implants

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Girl you came to the right place to help you in your decision. Gosh I

wonder what my life might have been like if I had only found a site

like this when I was thinking of implants, but I guess there had to

be some of us to go through this so that we could warn others of the

HUGE MISTAKE implants are. I think most of us here that had saline

were all of the same misunderstanding, that these were SAFE! Ha, we

all seemed pretty aware of the risks with Silicone gel, and none of

us wanted those, I know I did not want gel, I never would have done

it had they been gel, to me the lawsuits and the stuff that I had

heard about all seemed like it had to have been true, even though the

PS's all told me it was hype I still felt that no way these women

were making this up, and to me it made sense, seemed very logical,

that gel leaking into your body would and could have the potential to

make you sick. So anyhow, my point is that I felt gel was not safe. I

understood that the envelope of saline implants was made of the same

stuff the gel was, but I felt that since there was nothing to leak

out they had to be safe. I mean salt water is very safe if it gets in

your system and I never ever thought about the fact that the shell

could be bad for you. So I went ahead and got the implants, to fix my

saggy, deflated post weight loss, child bearing breasts. I was not

happy with the job the PS did, I felt that one breast looked much

different than the other, but in clothes they did look really nice. I

mean they were a bit big to me, for my petite frame, but I liked the

way I fit in tops and strapless dresses and esp summer clothes,

bikinis etc. TOO bad that i began getting ill less than 3 months

after implantation! I felt crappy all the time, like I was getting

the flu or something. I was dizzy, spaced out, achy all over, esp my

hands and my feet. I began thinking I was getting MS, or had a brain

tumor. I mean it just got worse and worse. It turned my life upside

down, I ended up addicted to pain pills to survive the day. It made a

total mess out of my relationship with my kid, I was always too sick

to pay attention to her, she ended up spending most of her time at

her dads house, and I was alone in bed crying when I was not dragging

my sick ass to work to try to hang on to my house and what was left

of my pathetic existence. I almost lost everything I had. My plans to

go back to school and my fitness goals went down the drain and it

was hard enough just to hold onto my job. I was only 35 years old but

I felt 100! I had big boobs and nothing else. WHat a price to pay to

have breasts. It took me awhile while i sorted through my emotions

and my denial of what was causing my illness. My family was

supportive but they were growing weary and tired of hearing my

complaints. My Dr's did not believe anything I said and thought I had

emotional problems, they put me on anti depressants, but they just

made it worse. Then my labs started showing abnormalities, finally

something concrete to show the Dr's. They sent me to a rhuematologist

who diagnosed me with undifferentiated mixed connective tissue

disease, a long word for " we don't know what you have " .They put me on

pain meds and said " learn to live with it " I honestly tried to do

just that, but after 18 months of suffereing I decided to try to get

the implants out and maybe get better! I did it, and within a year I

was almost normal again, within 2 years my life was back, it took

time for me, I did not get well overnight, but it did happen!

Does this sound like something you would want to risk for bigger

breasts? I mean of course no one can say if it will or won't happen

to you, but again, it is possible. So why risk it? learn to love

yourself for you, and accept your body the way it is, your just fine

the way you are! If you want to improve your physical self work out

more, get a new fitness routine, lift weights, hire a personal

trainer. You can do more to look better in the gym than in the ps

office!

Buy yourself some new clothes and nice bras, take a nice trip

somewhere exotic, use that money you would have used to get implants,

to spoil yourself. Go to a spa. Anything but implants. Trust me, I

wish I had gone to Hawaii instead of getting implants. It would have

been a better investment.At least i would have nice memories and some

photographs from my trip rather than scars left from implant/explant

surgery. Not to mention the emotional scars which are far more

prominent than the physical ones.Good luck to you in your choices, i

would say your very smart to cancel the appt you had, and I would

hope that you will just forget about implants.

Hugs