The stupid thing I did the other day.

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Hi girls!

Hope all are having a good week Happy valentines day (((HUGS)))

I wrote a post to you all about my call to Mentor Corp Patient

services on Tuesday, then deleted it - cryed a while - was gonna

write again - and today I think I can share this now. Please bear

with me if my thoughts are choppy

I called the RN. , since Diane was not there. Diane and I

talked at lengths when I first got my implants and I registered their

serial numbers with the company. I had so many concerns within a

month after the BA, I called her probably 6 times! Anyway --

I asked if they had a study or questionairre since I was explated

last month. She said no and that my serial numbers on record were

only for a recall, nothing more. And made it clear that now that

doesn't pertain to me since I am now explanted.

After I had just read the FDA hearings on approval for saline

implants in 2000, was when i decided to call Mentor. I was already

upset, and this RN made it worse. You see, I HAVE had many

discomforts listed, like memory fog, sleeplessness, flu-like

feelings, and about 14 months ago I developed terrible IBS (

irritable bowel " syndrome-like " problems) My internist did not

diagnose me with it, because my colonoscopy, sigmoidoscopy and

something else - all came back normal = no polyps, crohns disease

etc. This major bout lasted 7-8 months, and tore my insides up. I

was sick all the time with a bad belly , zero energy and on the

couch. I had to have a fissurectomy in July 2001 because of the

damage from severe diarreah for so many months.

I had no idea saline implants have been linked to these allergic type

of reaction in the bowels until I read about it on Tueday.

Now before today, I would have said I have not been ill/sick because

of my implants. Not ill in the way many of you are here. Its true I

never liked how they felt inside me either, but I absolutely

experienced many " Discomforts " that I never had prior to getting

augmented in 1998. My heart and mind comes from a place where I do

not use the term " sick " lightly. I have nursed a sister with

advanced stage MS and lost both parents to Cancer. So when I think of

myself, I see discomforts, not illness. Maybe you gals can help me

with that mental block in time So...

The Mentor RN. said she has heard this type of thing often and said

that women have called & said they get better for about 3-4 months

after explant and then all the symptoms return. Hence , leaving the

evidence NON CONCLUSIVE and non correlating to saline implants. She

used the word psyco-somatic illnesses in there somewhere and I got

flustered. I think inside i started crying then, but it came out

after I hung up the phone.

She also went on to say - Many people react adversely to any foreign

object inside their bodies and may develope auto-immune responses. I

said " you mean like hip/knee replacements? " and she said " yes " .

However, by the end of the conversation - I felt stunned, alone, and

like the little no-one I am in front of a MAJOR corporation.

Thanks for letting me vent and for beign here.. I still feel oddly

angry,sad, irritated -- humm, I am sure i could go on!

hugs, Trinity