carrie sister's implants

[Guest guest]

Not yet, they haven't......The FDA still has the chance to dump the Advisory panel's vote and not give their stamp of approval to silicone gel's, which I know is what we all are praying for. I am not sure when the final decision is going to come down, but I am sure it will be within the next few months. Let's hope the FDA wakes up and makes the right decision not to approve them.

Patty

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

From: naturalbeauty38

Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 12:02 PM

Subject: Re: carrie sister's implants

thanks Kathy for your response. I did not mean to get whiney about no one answering my question, but I just was expecting to get some feedback and was surprised that only one person had written. I mean lets face it, this situtation is one that probably a good number of us will be dealing with, either with friends or family members getting implants. Esp now that silicone has gotten a stamp of approval from the FDA as well!Take care girl

[Guest guest]

There is so much money involved in this issue. I m pretty sure they

will be approved. It would be a miracle if they were not, but yeah

lets all pray for that miracle, and hopefully save a few million

lives!

In , " *~Patty~* " <fdp@l...> wrote:

> Not yet, they haven't......The FDA still has the chance to dump the

Advisory panel's vote and not give their stamp of approval to

silicone gel's, which I know is what we all are praying for. I am

not sure when the final decision is going to come down, but I am sure

it will be within the next few months. Let's hope the FDA wakes up

and makes the right decision not to approve them.

> Patty

> ----- Original Message -----

> From: naturalbeauty38

>

> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 12:02 PM

> Subject: Re: carrie sister's implants

>

>

> thanks Kathy for your response. I did not mean to get whiney

about no

> one answering my question, but I just was expecting to get some

> feedback and was surprised that only one person had written. I

mean

> lets face it, this situtation is one that probably a good number

of

> us will be dealing with, either with friends or family members

> getting implants. Esp now that silicone has gotten a stamp of

> approval from the FDA as well!

>

> Take care girl

>

[Guest guest]

Your welcome! I don't think you are rambling at all. The fact that

you share how you feel often validates our feelings too. Like you

said at the end of the post, alot of us have to be dealing with

similar situations. That is one of the things I really like about

this site. We can share feelings here that we cannot with our

friends and family. And be understood. And receive support,

compassion, and good advice too! This is such a lifeline for so

many of us. I joined this site 2 years ago. Today I was looking

back over that time when Ilena first posted my letter to you all. I

will never forget all the people who took time to reply to me---

including you,patty, and rogene. I printed those out and kept them

for a really long time. I also went back and read when you first

posted to this site wondering if your implants were really making

you sick or not. It was neat to see how much your life changed over

this past couple of years--with your health and also your personal

life. I feel like some of you are old friends. And people I can

count on. And as my health has improved, I have tried to be there

in that same way for our newer posters. I don't think you can help

but want to be there for others the way people were there for us and

because you know just how much a difference this group can make to

others. Take care my friend!

kathy

In , " naturalbeauty38 "

<naturalbeauty38@y...> wrote:

> Hey Kathy girl!! thanks so much for your response. It helps allot

to

> get feedback from all my silicone sisters, this is the toughest

thing

> for me to deal with ya know. I mean I love my sister, and always

will

> of course, but the feelings of betrayal are enormous! When I saw

her

> (no one warned me or anything) it was total shock! I felt like

> someone had kicked me in the stomach or something. I mean I still

> cannot believe that they actually thought I would not notice her

> boobs were fake! DUH! ha, we implant/explant girls know fake boobs

> when we see them, sure hers are not huge, but still I knew it, but

I

> sat there and tried to tell myself it could not be, it had to be a

> padded bra or maybe enhancers ya know. I finally just asked her

> because it was driving me nuts.She admitted it.Of course she has

all

> these friends that have implants and all of them say they are

fine.

> One friend of hers imparticulary has had her silicone gels for 13

> years, and just loves them.The fact that she has chronic arthritis

> and urinary tract infections for which she takes antibiotics for

> continually does not mean anything. I guess once I had moved away

to

> Idaho it was probably easier for her to put me and my experience

out

> of her head,or maybe it just seemed distant or unreal to her. Not

> only that but her PS sounded like he manipulated her allot, saying

> how the gel implants (even though they were not approved by the

FDA)

> were so wonderful and even his own wife has them and she loves

them.

> He explained away to her how whatever happened to me was very very

> rare and probably was due to me being so allergic to things. This

> makes me really wonder about her and my mother because they seem

to

> think I have all these allergies, it is so strange, I mean I told

> them the only allergy I ever had in my life was sensitivity to

nickel

> in cheap earing. But this is an excuse or way they can just pass

it

> off as being my wierd thing ya know. It makes me mad, to say the

> least. Anyhow, I could go on and on about this topic let me tell

ya.

> In the end though, I concluded that I needed to make peace with

her

> and just try not to let this eat away at me. I have to just try to

> give it up to god ya know, and pray that she will be luckier than

me.

> So far she has been, as it is almost a year now that she got them

and

> she is still ok. I got sick almost right away after getting my

> implants, so who knows, i mean I am sure that she feels really

> confident that she won't get sick since she made it this far. Part

of

> me wonders why it happened so fast to me and nothing has happened

to

> her yet, but then part of me knows that it can and does happen to

us

> all at different points. Some of us got sick right away, and some

it

> took longer.At any rate, if she never gets a single problem it

will

> just further convince them that I was the freak ya know. I guess

that

> it just hurts allot to know that all my suffering, all my pain,

all

> the sickness and tears I cried everyday, when it came down to it,

to

> my sister it did not mean much. In her opinion it is her life, her

> body, it is none of my business what she does with it. Oh well,

what

> can I say. I guess she is right. I feel bad about it, and I do

> suspect that someday she will have problems of one kind or

another,

> until then I just have to accept that this is the way it is. I

have

> grown so much from my experience with implants, learned so much

about

> what human beings are capable of enduring. So much suffering and

pain

> like I never even knew existed. In the end I know I am a better,

> stronger, wiser woman. I will never take life forgranted again.

>

> Anyhow, I guess this was mostly just rambling, I hope it all makes

> sense!

> thanks Kathy for your response. I did not mean to get whiney about

no

> one answering my question, but I just was expecting to get some

> feedback and was surprised that only one person had written. I

mean

> lets face it, this situtation is one that probably a good number

of

> us will be dealing with, either with friends or family members

> getting implants. Esp now that silicone has gotten a stamp of

> approval from the FDA as well!

>

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