TO MOLLY Re: Implants-LM and anyone else who cares-Gayle

[Guest guest]

--Molly, I am so sorry about everything you have been thru. My

thoughts and prayers go out to you. Sending you lotsa hugs and better

days ahead. TERRY

- In , " MollyBloom54 " <jawlaw93@y...>

wrote:

> What has surprised me is that women with saline implants get sick

so much faster. I

> suppose this can be bad, but good in that you know what is going

on, or soon do.

> I had silicone implants for 20 years, before I ever connected that

my health was being

> affected from the implants. I think one implant may have been bi-

lumin, meaning one

> saline 'implant' and one silicone implant - like an implant within

an implant. Upon

> removal, the surgeon found a staph infection in my right breast,

grossly ruptured implants

> and migration outside of the *intact* capsule.

> Giant cells on the outside of the capsule attest to my autoimmune

response.

> I have been dx with multiple sclerosis, connective tissue disease &

possible or probable

> lupus, and Hashimoto's thyroiditis. I have peripheral neruopathy,

positive ANA (1:320),

> positive anti-SSA and anti-SM (indicative of lupus), carpel tunnel

& plantar fasciatis (both

> which are aggravated by connective tissue disease). Brain and C-

Spine MRIs show

> demyelination and a spinal tap shows elevated igG and oligoclonal

banding. Before

> explant, I woke up in the middle of the night with hives for no

apparant reason. I went

> into anaphlactic shock at the dermatologist's office (I figured i

was safer there than in ER,

> and I still believe I was right). I had had rashes for 4 years

without relief, that felt like small

> stings and then would itch until I scratched them into raw wounds.

I had to make an

> additional trip (3 total) to my surgeon in another state because

surgery had been canceled

> at the last minute because of very high liver enzymes (550/590).

Finally, I had surgery in

> April 2004. I was SO glad to have these horrible things out.

> It's been a rocky road. I still have a lot of pain,

fatigue, 'brain fog', and have deferred

> taking a bar exam now twice - the last time because I was in the

hospital for c-difficile

> colitis. That's been my most recent battle. I was in such pain

that in the hospital they

> gave me dilaudid, but my liver did not metabolize this well. My doc

has since taken me off

> all medications, and is slowly putting me back on.

>

> Five years ago I jogged, bicycled on the highest bike path in the

United States, was fit

> physically and mentally. Although I believe (my doc believes) one

implant was leaking for

> a long time and the other probably completely ruptured (gross

rupture) about 5 years ago.

>

> I have thought at times I was going to die.

> I just take it a day at a time and hope that I will get through

this and my health will get

> better. This has disrupted my health, our finances and our

lives. My husband is very

> supportive, but it has been a horrible experience. I wonder if I

will ever be able to enjoy

> life or work again.

>

> Molly

>

> Putting silicone implants back on the market would be evil. The

saline implants should

> never have been 'approved' by the FDA, either.

>

>

> > > > Lynda your statements can and are often taken out of

> > > context

> > > possibly

> > > > because the way your wording them. Which is what led

> > > both LM and I

> > > to

> > > > think you were refering to one of us as for this

> > > brainwashing

> > > thing.

> > > > I mean you can say whatever you want, but again in the

> > > post I am

> > > > replying to here your saying that most of the

> > > population thinks

> > > that

> > > > medical Dr's are god.I agree with that, but I also see

> > > that many

> > > > people actually treat Dr's with a good deal of contempt

> > > these days.

> > > > Anyhow I think there are allot of people with the

> > > misconception

> > > that

> > > > Dr's know everything. This is simply not true. There

> > > are good and

> > > bad

> > > > Dr's just like there are good and bad Teachers, good

> > > and bad police

> > > > officers etc. The fact is that because we all had bad

> > > experiences

> > > it

> > > > is easy to blame all Dr's when in fact the real crooks

> > > are the

> > > > manufacturers. Drs are simply filling the need that

> > > exists,

> > > > unfortunatly as long as there are women lining up to

> > > get implants,

> > > > there will be dr's there to put them in happily. It is

> > > sad, it is

> > > > sick and until something in our society changes that is

> > > the way it

> > > is.

> > > > If lifts became the big fad and no one wanted implants

> > > anymore Dr's

> > > > would be learning and studying how to do better lifts.

> > > It is that

> > > age

> > > > old phenomenon called supply and demand. Where there is

> > > the demand

> > > > there is the supply.

> > > > The Dr;s have often been mislead just like the patients

> > > that these

> > > > devices are wonderful bla bla blah. I agree that by now

> > > these Dr's

> > > > should know better after seeing so many of us come back

> > > ill. The

> > > > other problem now is that allot of women refuse to

> > > admit they are

> > > ill

> > > > from implants or even to complain to the PS about what

> > > is going on

> > > > with them. There fore I believe that many PS's don't

> > > know that

> > > their

> > > > patients are having problmems. Many of us did go back

> > > to them and

> > > > that is good, if only more would stick up for

> > > themselves such as my

> > > > own sister, then more and more of them might start to

> > > believe that

> > > > the implants really do cause disease.

> > > > Anyhow I got a bit off track here.

> > > > I am glad that we can all agree at least on one thing,

> > > that there

> > > is

> > > > good and bad in all and that we, the patient, the

> > > consumer have to

> > > > take a certain responsibility in making sure that

> > > whatever we do to

> > > > our bodies we are completely 100% informed. I was naive

> > > and stupid

> > > > when I got my implants, and that is why I made sure

> > > before I took

> > > > them out that i was educated and new exactly what was

> > > going to

> > > happen

> > > > upon removal. I will never ever again let another

> > > surgeon touch me

> > > > without completely researching and getting different

> > > opinons etc so

> > > I

> > > > have learned a very valuable lesson through this.

> > > > take care

> > > >

> > > >

> > > >

> > > >

> > >

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