Please call FDA today and make your opinion heard ... And other support group

[Guest guest]

Good morning Support Group!

We still have time to make a difference with the FDA. Please call in

today.

http://capwiz.com/commandtrust/issues/alert/?alertid=8625651

For decades, the breast implant industry has been selling various

unproven and oft dangerous generations as implants as " new &

improved. "

As we know, the industry is working on every level to get the

FDA ... the US Government ... to lie to people and say they

are 'safe' too.

You might remind them that the 'conditions' are totally non-

enforceable ... that we've heard of MRI's costing from $1,000 to

over $5,000.

What percentage of women are going to be able to afford this bi-

annually?

I've put the original " conditions " below that were released with

the " approvable " vote to Mentor a year ago .. on April 13, 2005.

Since that time, the day before he 'resigned,' acting FDA head,

Lester Crawford, also sent an " approvable " letter to Inamed ... just

acquired for $3.6 BILLION by Allergan. (I just looked at other news

sources who report between $3.2 BILLION. This source says $3.6

BILLION.)

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?

ndmViewId=news_view & newsId=20060329005648 & newsLang=en

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Click here for all the info on the Call-in TODAY, April 5th.

http://capwiz.com/commandtrust/issues/alert/?alertid=8625651

For those who can ... please extend some support to Antolick.

You can see her photo on Kathy Nye's FDA photo page here:

http://fdahearings2005.homestead.com/WeWereThere2.html 's

note is below.

If you haven't yet seen it, please visit Keeling's

information page on the platinum and implanted women issue. A new

peer-reviewed study was just released.

www.BreastImplantAwareness.org/cando.htm

I'm keeping our website updated with up to the moment information at

this time.

With love to all, Ilena

www.BreastImplantAwareness.org

From: Antolick mailto:karenantolick@...

Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 8:49 PM

Subject: Please help Me

Ilena,

My name is Antolick, from Birmingham, AL.(red hair.)

I just don't know what I can do, I have been in bed for the three

past weeks with headaches, joint pain, and chest pain.

I am losing my hair and am so fatigued I cannot get out of bed.

Every time I go to the doctor they say it is just the fibromyalgia

but I know it's something else I just don't know what. I now weigh

153 lbs, My plastic surgeon said I had silicone poisoning but none

of the doctors know anything about it, if I remember right my ana

was positive before I had the silicone removed but now is neg, my

sed rate was elevated and I'm not for sure of the rate now. My

memory is so short termed I had to drop out of college because I

could not retain the information.My fingers feel so heavy even

typing this email. I have heard things about platinum poisoning but

what are the symptoms. I have dry eyes from the silicone, but now

my vision blurs all the time, whether I am reading, driving etc. My

motor skills seem to be slow. I burn myself every time I cook and

it takes me awhile to complete simple things like writing a grocery

list, rolling my hair etc.

I don't know what to do. There has to be more to my life than what

I have now, between the depression and pain ,I feel helpless, I do

think about dying so it will be over. Is there any direction you can

point me to. I have got to do something because the doctors here

will not even discuss it.

Can someone please try and help me. Please ask all of the other

wonderful ladies I met for any ideas also.

Antolick

http://www.newsday.com/news/health/wire/sns-ap-breast-implants-

conditions,0,7083132,print.story?coll=sns-ap-health-headlines

Conditions on Breast Implant Manufacturer

By The Associated Press

April 13, 2005, 11:04 PM EDT

Food and Drug Administration advisers recommended that Mentor

Corp.'s silicone-gel breast implants be allowed to sell if the

company follows these conditions:

* Prospective patients must sign consent forms acknowledging implant

risks, including that they ultimately may break and require removal

or replacement.

* Mentor may sell silicone implants only to board-certified plastic

surgeons who complete special hands-on training to insert implants

in a way that minimizes odds of breakage.

* Mentor must open a registry to track how patients fare long-term.

* Patient education and implant labeling must warn that because

implant breaks don't cause immediate symptoms, patients should get

an MRI scan five years after implant insertion and every two years

after that. They should consider having broken implants removed to

minimize risk of silicone oozing into the breast, or beyond.

* Mentor must make postapproval commitments including to finish

ongoing studies designed to determine how often implants rupture

within 10 years.

* Those studies must undergo scrutiny by an independent data

monitor.

* Those studies must include analysis of patients who have their

implant removed and not replaced. Currently, how those women fare is

not being tracked.

* The FDA advisory panel must publicly review all of Mentor's data

in five years to doublecheck how the implants are performing.

* Implants must be linked to their recipients by a tracking number,

similar to those used to alert pacemaker recipients of recalls, to

allow for better study when problems arise.

www.BreastImplantAwareness.org