Fwd: Support Group Messages and Great Article .... 4/24/2006

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Dearest Group ... BRAVO BRAVO to and Beth for getting their true stories in the media! See article below!

I spoke with Sally Kirkland, who most of you know is very, very active in Hollywood on raising awareness to implant dangers. She reminded me yesterday of the passing of her good friend, Elaine Young. Elaine had had silicone injections that went way wrong and died from cancer last week. Sally asked that Elaine be remembered as one of the women who cared deeply about warning women of the dangers of silicone ... a ruptured silicone gel implant isn't much different than injected silicone. Here are a couple of articles on Elaine. May her passing raise awareness to silicone dangers at a very important time.

Her passing:

http://www.examiner.com/a-84736~Celeb_Real_Estate_Agent_Elaine_Young_Dies.html

Parfumgigi has a really good article on her from earlier on Tony's site:

http://www.implants.clic.net/tony/Corner26/61.htm

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/29/eveningnews/main658177.shtml

http://www.channel3000.com/entertainment/8881520/detail.html

Here is a message from she asked me share with you ...also a link to Kathy Nye's photos from a Rally in Birmingham organized in 1999 ... what seems like a million years ago and yesterday.

http://www.siliconebreastimplant.homestead.com/

Gotta run ... remind me if I've forgotten something important.

Love from Ilena

www.BreastImplantAwareness.org

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Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 11:30 AM

Subject: Please Post

Dearest Ilena,

HELP!!!!! Is there ANYONE that can make a web page for me? I am TRYING to UNITE the 1 percent of the women that opted out of the Dow Plan and who have NO representation. I am hoping that a web page will bring us together. Dow offered me a settlement of $2500.00 a few months back. WHAT A JOKE!!!! 30 years of *#** and 9 surgeries for breast implant removal and putting them back in, I won't go on with that. Also, if anyone knows of any attorneys willing to take these ******** on, PLEASE contact me. As it is right now I think I am going to go to court alone. I am NOT signing any settlement agreement that tells me I cannot talk about implants for the rest of my life. The new "thicker gel implants" is just like the polyurethane covered implants from the 80's except that they have a silicone covering instead of a material covering. SAME STUFF!!! I held one and thought HOW CAN THEY DO THIS!!!!!!

Miss you Lady!!!

Thank You SOOOO Much for your loyalty and LOVE and TIME to keep us together!!!!!

Love

M

Study says breast implants are still cause for concern

http://www.thestarpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060424/LIFESTYLE/604240302 & SearchID=73242563724491

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Study says breast implants are still cause for concern

By NASEEM SOWTInsowti@...

MUNCIE -- If there was a worst-case scenario for getting silicone breast implants, would be the one to talk about it. With a total of 10 surgeries since 1975 -- each surgeon trying to fix the work of previous one and inserting a new pair of implants -- , who is now 57 years old, ended up with no implants and a slew of medical conditions that she attributes to silicone gel leaking into her body.

"I can spit into a white paper towel, and it looks like someone shook silvery sprinkles all over it," said. That silicone implants can be hazardous to women's health is what pulled them out of the U.S. market in 1992. But the possibility of them releasing a harmful form of platinum into the body has never been seriously debated until now.

Earlier this month, researchers reported that they have found high and potentially hazardous levels of platinum salt in some women who had silicone implants for many years.

Last June, finally found a toxicology lab in Texas -- the same one that released the recent report -- that was willing to test her saliva and urine for the presence of platinum.

"They said the level of platinum in my saliva was 1.1, and it should be zero," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention standards, she said.

"But no one takes this seriously. I live in a small town in Pennsylvania, and the doctors here think I'm a joke," said , who now suffers from fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue, Barrett syndrome, and scar tissue in her chest, which resulted from the implants and related surgeries.

The study, which was published in a journal of the American Chemical Society, comes out as the Food and Drug Administration is poised to allow silicone implants back on the market for unrestricted sale. And the recent report is challenged by chemists associated with implant makers and some of the medical community.

The study is based on findings in 16 women, and "16 is not a significant number," when it comes to scientific research, said Ansar Ansari, a cosmetic surgeon in Muncie.

Brook, a chemist and silicone-manufacturing expert at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, told The Washington Post earlier this month that the new study contained some data and conclusions about platinum that were very hard, if not impossible, to accept.

And last week, a new study, funded by Dow Corning Corporation, which was a major maker of silicone implants in the 1990s and ended up paying more than $3 billion in lawsuits, reassured the safety of silicone implants.

While, most of the previous consumers are unhappy with the possible return of silicone implants, many cosmetic surgeons are looking forward to their FDA approval, since "silicone feels more natural (than saline implants) ... It feels more like breast tissue," Ansari said.

Saline implants have been used as an alternative to silicone in the past decade, albeit there also are horror stories surrounding those implants, like that of Beth -- www.toxicbreastimplants.org.

Meanwhile, the breast-augmentation business has been growing, as there was a 10-percent increase in breast enhancements from 2004 to 2005, and a 37-percent increase between years 2000 and 2005, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

"Of course I had worries," said Whittenburg of Muncie, who got saline implants in February to go from size 34A to 36C. "I am a registered nurse, and I knew first hand about the dangers, but I think compliance and listening to the doctor means a lot, too." She added that she doesn't smoke or drink, which would lower her risk of possible complications.

There were roughly 290,000 breast augmentations in 2005 and 25,000 implant removals, according to the ASPS. From the hundreds of implants Ansari has placed in the past two decades, he said he has had "one implant that failed" and had to be removed.

Contact news reporter Naseem Sowti at 213-5829.

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" From the hundreds of implants Ansari has placed in

the past two decades, he said he has had " one implant

that failed " and had to be removed. "

It's strange . . . I've NEVER heard of a plastic

surgeon who claimed NONE of his patients have had a

problem . . . It's always ONE! . . .

Reminds me of the group of women in a plastic

surgeon's waiting room . . . all having problems with

their breast implants, but strangers to each other. As

they started talking, the topic came around to breast

implants . . . When they started asking each other

" Are YOU the woman who got kicked by a horse? " . . .

(The surgeon told every woman who had a problem that

the only patient he had with implant problems had been

kicked by a horse.)

Rogene

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Rogene, It definitely is a strange thing! All these plastic surgeons hardly know anyone who had any trouble with their implants? Hmmm, this guy's admitting to only one, yet I just read today in that same article that around 25,000 women had their implants removed in 2005? Gosh, how many plastic surgeons are in this country? Just doing the math, with a 5 day work week, that runs almost 96 implant removals a day. I am quite certain that Dr. Feng, Dr. Huang, and Dr. Kolb didn't do all those! I'd say that they just aren't owning up to the truth....(anyone surprised?) They think we are pretty stupid, don't they? They are the ones who look pretty silly! Patty Rogene S <saxony01@...> wrote: "From the hundreds of implants Ansari has placed inthe past two decades, he said he has had "one implantthat failed" and had to be removed. "It's strange . . . I've NEVER heard of a plasticsurgeon who claimed NONE of his patients have had aproblem . . . It's always ONE! . . . Reminds me of the group of women in a plasticsurgeon's waiting room . . . all having problems withtheir breast implants, but strangers to each other. Asthey started talking, the topic came around to breastimplants . . . When they started asking each other"Are YOU the woman who got kicked by a horse?" . . .(The surgeon told every woman who had

a problem thatthe only patient he had with implant problems had beenkicked by a horse.)Rogene

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