To donna.......conteplating implants

[Guest guest]

Hey there donna. I do hope you stick around long enough to decide

NOT to get breast implants. You are smart for researching first. I

have repeated my story 100 times to women like you, and will keep

repeating it a million more times, to keep someone else from ruining

their lives and health over big boobs. I was 30 when I got my implants

(for my birthday). I was in awesome shape, and life was great! I had

everything going for me!! Except I thought out of no where I would

look 'better with big boobs'. I lived in Fla. I was a workout person

faithfully for over 8 years, and I started to lift weights. I too

quit a habit..drinking. WEll my family pleaded with me NOT to get

them. My 'so called FRIENDS', and plastic surgeon argued

how 'everyone has them and they are safe. I made the stupidest

desicion, and got them anyway. I went against my BAD feeling. After a

few months I had a cough that would come and go. I blamed it on

allergies. I felt wound up all the time. There was always an excuse.

I was working too much, I was 'over doing it..ect. Long story short,

14 months later, I collapsed, and was bedridden for nearly 2 years. I

did not link it to the implants at all. I had just gotten a bueatiful

new apt, had saved enough $$$$ to buy a condo, and signed up for

college, and was going to be personal trainning at this point in my

life. I COLLAPSED. I could not walk down the stairs. I could not

shower or make a meal. You see Donna, get that little booklet that

comes witht the implants(or is supposed to come with them)..and READ

it carfully. Those so called 'symptoms' that are listed that women

experience, is a REAL DISEASE called Fibromyalgia/ Chronic Fatique

Syndrome. Bet you never heard of these diseases? Well look them up on

the net and see what a horrible debilitating disease it it. There is

no CURE OR treatment for them !!! All us implant women have similar

symptoms.Some women get LUPUS or Ruematiod Arthritis. My sypmtoms are

deblittaing fatique, HAIR LOSS( still falling out 4 years later)-do

you really want to risk loosing your hair?, muscle and joint

pains,blurry vision, chronic yeast infections/gyn problems-YES

implants can effect your SEX LIFE( alot of us have that too!!), flu

like symptoms, chronic fevers, vertigo, MEMORY LOSS( I could NOT

drive or balance a check book or remember how to add for almost 2

years!!!, anxiety,and depression. I was suicidal. I lost my health,

my friends, my job, my life savings. My family had to come and get

me, and i live with my mom now at 35!!!!! I HAD multiple chemical

sensitivies-I got to a point where I was so allergic to everything, I

could not leave my room for about 6 months(after explant, this went

away). Donna, it has been 3 years after my explant, and I am NOT

WELL. I have improved ALOT.I am self suffecient now, but I cannot

work. BUT my life will never be the same. My health is so

unpredictable. I am CHRONICALLY ILL at 35. I long to work out, go to

work, hang out at the beach with my friends, dance all night. NOT SO.

Because of those implants. Also, they may not make you sick right

away. It took me 14 months, and hit my like a BRICK. Some women get

sick a few years later. I think there are women here up to 4 years?

BUT we all have the same symptoms and diseases. Please donna, do

yourself a favor, work on other parts of your body, get your hair

done, go on vacation, but don't get the implants, it is not worth

the 'would if's. Right now, I wish I were YOU coming here, healthy,

happy, and smart with a whole wonderful life full of great choices to

make, travel and adventures. Instead I am ME, living a life of 'I

shouldn't have, I wish I never' and why me. Hope this was not too

lengthy, and hope you are smart enough not to do it. Peace. dimonds68

[Guest guest]

Hey there donna. I do hope you stick around long enough to decide NOT to get breast implants. You are smart for researching first.

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Wow!! I am so sorry for what you've been through. I know someone with fibromyalgia(sp), she's 24, has a small son and is just in constant pain. She can't do anything other that lay around most of the time. She doesn't have implants, but I can't imagine doing that to myself *intentionally*.

If there's even a *chance that those things might happen, it's just not worth it to me. It sounds bad, I guess, but the biggest reason is that I'm not willing to give up my sex life. I'm sure my husband doesn't want to give up his sex life either

I took some time and looked at the pictures and they are scary. Even under the best of circumstances, an explant does not sound like a pleasant experience. I guess I should be thankful for my 34B.

I have another friend with RA and I know what she goes through

Thank you everyone for allowing me to stay for a bit and learn some more.

Donna