Support Message from Ilena

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Dear Friends . . . The beat goes on . . . This is the

longest list of requests for help Ilena has sent in a

while . . . I'm going to invite them to .

If you respond to their message, please use their

personal address until if/when they join the group.

My question is: Where is the FDA? Why are implants

continuing to be put in women when so many are getting

sick? Is this some kind of sick joke they are playing

on American women?

Rogene

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Dearest Group,

Wanted to remind all that our Kacey will be on the

Montel Show today. The producer is even

talking about more implant related shows. Yeah!

An article being widely distributed is this ... any

help to counterbalance this type of promotion will be

appreciated.

http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2006/2/emw348913.htm

Breast Implants Company MyFreeImplants.com Gives Away

Another Free Breast Augmentation Procedure

There is so much hype and propaganda being circulated

right now ... between tearful (and deceitful) media

portrayals of " poor Dow Corning " " forced into

bankruptcy for no reason " to the expansion of Dow

silicone throughout the world.

Go figure!

Several women need support ... please write them

directly and feel free to copy me.

Also, prayers today would be so appreciated for Rogene

.... a mighty advocate for women and children harmed by

implants... who I believe is having a lumpectomy. (I

had the lumpectomy today - sentinel lumph node is

clear, and I'm doing great - Rogene)

To our 'new women' below ... please stay in touch and

welcome to our support group.

If you haven't signed the new petition asking the FDA

to WAIT on any implant approval ... please visit link

at our site.

Ilena Rosenthal

www.BreastImplantAwareness.org

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Our Hamelin - hotseytotsey2003@... is

being explanted soon and also needs some good support.

Please write her personally!

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Breast reconsrtuction

Dear Dear ilena ,

I had implants 20 years ago that

went disastrously wrong resulting in eventual removal

of the breast, several lymph nodes tissue, including

the auxilliary muscle along the way. I was filled with

fear and certainly had my share of aches and

pains...HOWEVER i chose to believe that i had been

most unfortunate in the damage the breast implants had

caused in local tissue rather than systemically, and

had silicone again in my lattismus dorsi flap

reconstruction. Around that time i was having major

problems with my legs/back-well allover really but

again i chose to believe that these pains were

likely due to one strained part of the spine putting

strain on other parts, and that there was no eveidence

comming to light that showed auto immune as increased

in silicone recipients.....Now however i am in real

trouble , i have finally been diagnosed after ongoing

symptoms that i do indeed have `lupus type

syndrone`-not a typical case.....i have the whole

fybromyalgia thing and a c-reactive protein of 12..and

a PH of 5!!. i want my implants out and am very afraid

of going back to the surgeon who`s helped me so far as

he does not believe silicone is any risk, i am sick

with worry -and now struggling with everyday

life with my symptoms/ despite yoga, alkali forming

diet and homeopathic medicine-i want My implants out

now but want some kind of other reconstruction or at

least uplift as i will be a mess-but i have a young

family and i owe it now to stop being so naive and

vain and give my immune system a little help-if thats

not already too late....long story!( I am currently

living in Muscat Oman)

Please write asap, best wishes, Anne Ewan.

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From: kristinmonday@...

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Yes I did, thank you. Dr. feng is amazing.

My right implant fell apart in the operating room

after it was removed; it ruptured and ended up in

pieces.

The right implant was brittle, it also had very little

scar tissue, just a paper thin piece, like rice paper.

I was also easy to remove.

The left implant was hard to remove, I bled for a week

and it was a normal implant.

My husband who is an ND said, " I would have been

exposed to a huge toxic load all at once if it had

burst in my body, because the water absorbed all the

chemicals " I had them out just in time.

My implants were 9 years old.

I'm going to take a glandular breast pill in a few

more weeks to fill my breasts back in on top. Maybe

I'll grow a cup size and round them back out. My

friend has mammograms showing her " before " an old

flacid breast of 50 years old, that breast feed three

times and her " after " a young breast of about 23 that

never had children. She went from a flat A, to a full

C and lost 4 dress sizes. She has maintained her

breast size for the last few years.

My breasts do not look as good as they did before I

got implants. If I had known they were not permanent I

never would have gotten them. I was promised a

lifetime of perfectly round breasts with no problems

ever, no surgery, no hardening (the only true

statement.)

Any ideas on finding an attorney? I read a copy of

Torn Illusions, the FDA knows full well that implants

of all kinds cause disease, so do all the

manufacturers.

I think it is part of the conspiracy to kill people

off younger and collect more money along the way.

" The unexamined life is not worth living " -Socrates

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Just in from our SweetCaroline:

New doubts about devices

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-devices21feb21,0,6081404.st\

ory?coll=la-news-comment-editorials

FOR DECADES, PHARMACEUTICAL companies have lavished

gifts on doctors, including meals, sports tickets and

extravagant trips billed as " educational seminars. "

Now there's growing evidence that such graft, to use

the term in its nonmedical sense, is migrating to the

fast-growing medical device industry.

Earlier this month, the renowned Cleveland Clinic

announced tighter conflict-of-interest rules after a

hospital investigation found that its chief executive

had a financial relationship with a medical device

firm that sold products used in a type of surgery the

hospital has advocated. Last month, it was revealed

that a former employee at industry giant Medtronic

Inc. has filed a whistle-blower lawsuit alleging that

the company improperly paid millions of dollars to

dozens of surgeons across the country, possibly

encouraging them to perform unnecessary surgeries.

(One doctor allegedly received $400,000 for eight days

of work a year.)

Another worrisome trend: surgeons who own their own

medical device companies, which then sell to hospitals

where the surgeons work. The practice may be legal,

but California's attorney general has started an

investigation into the issue.

At best, questionable financial relationships such as

these dilute the public's faith in doctors. At worst,

they may be putting patients' lives at risk.

Since last year, Guidant Corp. has recalled or issued

safety advisories for nearly 88,000 defibrillators and

more than 200,000 pacemakers. At least seven deaths

have been linked to faulty devices, and company

executives evidently knew of problems long before they

disclosed them to physicians. The company has used

financial incentives to sell its products to doctors;

surely those who've taken advantage of those

incentives without asking too many questions deserve

some scrutiny, if not blame.

Like the pharmaceutical industry before it, the

medical device industry has agreed to a voluntary code

of ethics that bans most industry gifts to doctors.

But voluntary guidelines aren't enough, and few

companies are paying attention. As baby boomers age,

the industry is set for a huge financial windfall. For

their own good as well as that of their patients,

doctors and manufacturers must clean up their act.