Re: just wondering--Colleen

[Guest guest]

Colleen,

I think you're onto something here! I know that implant surgery for

me was AWFUL! Extra awful. My friend (20 years older) had hers

done on a Friday and was back to work that Monday. Me, on-the-other-

hand couldn't function for 10 DAYS at all! I had to have my drains

in for like 10 days due to all of the fluid draining (which wasn't

very common). The surgeon just gave up and removed them, even

though I was still draining TONS! Then after surgery, I was

WORTHLESS for a long time after. When I finally recovered from

surgery, I began to have weird, sharp shooting arm pain episodes.

And then the other symptoms eventually kicked in....and my breasts

were ALWAYS tender. I think the whole thing was a mess. I wish my

surgeon would have taken the extra drainage as a " sign " that maybe

my body was rejecting the implants...or at least didn't like them

very much.

Explantation surgery, however, was NO BIG DEAL AT ALL. I smiled

when I woke up and felt like I could wear heels (for the first time

in sooooo long) and go dancing! I had to consciously remind myself

to take it easy as I just had surgery. I know that a lot of this

was because my steriod intake increased at the time of surgery; but

my body also looked thinner (very noticably thinner...MTV even

commented on it when I woke up!) as I had just gotten rid of my

toxic bags!

Take care, girl,

Kacey

> I've heard lots of people lately saying how when they got their

implants,

> they were back at work after just a couple of weeks. I was in bed

in PAIN

> for at least three weeks and after that, I was still pretty much

out of

> commission. I'm wondering if any of you had pain like this (more

than

> normal) when you first got your implants. Wondering if the amount

of pain

> then could relate to our illness. Just curious. It could be that I

was in so

> much pain because I had no right breast and the muscle and skin was

> stretched so much....or maybe I'm just a BIG WEENIE!