Symptoms go away after explant

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I saw this post on the new forum and thought is was a worthy post.....I would like to do some more research on these journal articles if I can find the time, but in any case, there is hope for you recent explantees, and it sounds like there is proof to back it up!

Patty

Silicone-Associated Symptoms go away with explantation

SILICONE-ASSOCIATED SYMPTOMS GO AWAY WHEN IMPLANTS ARE REMOVED. Doctors at the University of Alabama at Birmingham observed that 103 of 142 women attributed a variety of symptoms to their implants and that 50% of these women reported improvement in their health problems when the implants were removed. (ls of Plastic Surgery 34:1 [January 1995], 1-6.) Of 33 women who underwent implant removal (average age, 44) 24 experienced significant improvement in numerous silicone-associated symptoms within 22 months. (Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatology 24:1 Suppl 1 [August 1994], 22-28.) Among 300 women with implants and musculoskeletal complaints, 70% who underwent implant removal reported "improvement in their systemic symptomatology" (Clinical Rheumatology 14:6 [November 1995], 667-672.) Dermatologists at the Medical University of South Carolina at ton report that when a woman, 46, with scleroderma had her implants removed, "the scleroderma gradually resolved." (Archives of Dermatology 126:9 [september 199 , 1198-1202.) Doctors at the University of California, School of Medicine report that for a woman with debilitating multisystem sarcoidosis (multiorgan granulomas), "her clinical condition dramatically improved," after her silicone implants were removed. (International Archives of Allergy and Immunology 105:4 [December 1994], 404-407.) Canadian researchers polled 100 women for health changes they experienced after having their silicone implants removed (mean age, 41) after having had the implants for a mean of 12 years. After an average of 2.7 years, 45% of 75 women in this group (those who had lost nipple sensitivity) believed, in retrospect, their implants had caused permanent health problems and 43% were suing the implant manufacturers. Those women who had no previous signs of autoimmune symptoms responded "most favorably to explantation" as 80% reported "major improvement" in their symptoms and 93% said they had a "significantly improved psychological well-being." (ls of Plastic Surgery 39:1 [1997], 9-19.)