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From: Kathynye@...Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 4:28:02 PMSubject: POST: lynn has questions and other "stuff"Hi All,First thank all of you for your kind emails and letters of support. I will try to get out POST a few times a week. If anyone wants me to POST something, email it to me.I will answer your other emails individually.I received this email yesterday and asked permission to share this, so read on, and if you can offer advise or a kind word of encouragement, that would be nice.Kathy

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Dear Kathy,Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord for your web sight. I am lynn Maudlin from town,IL and would really appreciate any help or suggestions you can give me. I am desperate and do not know what to do. My e mail address is : jmaudfarm@...I have had implants for 32 years and am scheduled to have them removed July 5th, if I make it that long. I had them put in to please an ex-husband and prevent a divorce--I thought. I have had much pain

in the breasts and upper chest and underarm. The plastic surgeon did not want me to get a mammogram thinking it would rupture the implants. I'm concerned I may have cancer. I am sitting and waiting while the cancer grows and cannot do anything. I have lost 40 lbs. I have severe headaches and tingling in my head--feels like my brain is being killed--starting to lose memory. My head feels like it is spinning. I had the surgery scheduled earlier but cancelled due to heart problems--could feel heart beat in chest and had chest pain. I had a stress test and it came back okay. I assume the silicone is flowing throughout my body. I think I was so busy dealing with other health problems the past year, I did not realize pain was developing in my breasts.They feel hard and like they have ridges in them I have had a variety of health problems over the years but unfortunately never attributed them to the implants. I did not have a computer and never checked out all the problems women had experienced with implants. I was shocked what I saw on your sight and feel so stupid I never did something before now, If only I had known and been more aggressive in checking out information. The surgery is outpatient and I am very concerned about all the possible complications. Will the silicone in the body cause problems with proper healing? I am not getting new implantsI know you are a very busy woman and I am so thankful for all the testimony you and the others gave at the conference trying to get implants outlawed Keep up the good work and the fight against them.I would really appreciate any help or suggestions you could pass along to me. I feel so desperate and so sick. I tried to get some other web sights but was not very successful. I could not get into any of the discussion groups. I do not know much about the computer so may not have accessed it correctly.Thank you for any help you can offer.Sincerely, lynn ====================================================Subj: BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO .. THE HISTORY OF SILICONE-GEL BREAST IMPLANTS ON THE MARKET AND IN THE COURTS Date: 6/21/2006 11:59:29 AM Eastern Standard Time From: ilena.rose@... Alliance for Justice Releases Important New Study; Silicone Implant Saga Illustrates Vital Importance of the Civil Justice System6/21/2006 11:03:00 AMNational Desk, Health Reporter Contact: Landis of the Alliance for Justice, 202-464-7350 WASHINGTON, June 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Alliance for Justice today released "Independent Justice: How Our Civil Justice System Protects Consumers and Patients in Ways the Regulatory System Does Not." Using the civil justice system, women injured by silicone breast implants confronted medical manufacturers. Plaintiffs peeled away layers of secrecy, obfuscation and outright dishonesty to reveal the real danger of leaking silicone implants to the unaware public. "The implant story illustrates the danger of relying on manufacturers and government regulators to guarantee

the safety of consumer products when the government is reliant on research submitted by the very companies it is supposed to be regulating," said Nan Aron, president of the Alliance for Justice. "It was only through litigation that the danger caused by implants was exposed," Aron continued. Responding to the report, the Senior House Democrat on the FDA's funding subcommittee, L. DeLauro (D-Conn.) said, "There is a growing list of FDA approved drugs and medical devices -- products like Vioxx, Fen-Phen, silicone implants and defibrillators -- that have subsequently proved to be dangerous. The FDA must increase its oversight of approved products so that women will not have to fend for themselves when their health is at risk." The report examines the history beginning in the 1960's when implants came on the market without any government approval, and continues through the onset of problems and the first successful lawsuit against a manufacturer in 1977. During the course

of the litigation, company documents emerged that revealed strong internal concerns about the implants and established a startling lack of research into implant safety. As the courts steadily uncovered information about implants, the FDA took halting steps before finally forcing manufacturers to do research that demonstrated their products' safety. In the end, the manufacturers failed to do so, and the agency pulled implants from the general market in 1992. Only through the civil justice system was the general public made aware of the dangers that these implants could potentially pose to women's health. Despite subsequent research that has confirmed that nearly all silicone implants eventually rupture, the FDA today appears poised to allow silicone-gel implants back on the market for cosmetic purposes. "Our civil justice system has proven invaluable in the past to ensure that American patients have ultimate control of their health and well-being, and it is crucial that

Americans can continue to stand up for their rights," concluded Aron. --- The full report is available at http://www.allianceforjustice.org/independentjustice.pdf. For more information, or to speak with Alliance for Justice President Nan Aron, contact Landis at 202-464-7350. http://www.usnewswire.com/ =====================================================From :Title: SYNDROMES ASSOCIATED WITH SILICONE BREAST IMPLANTS: A CLINICAL STUDY AND REVIEW , By: sson AD, Journal of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine, 13590847, March 1, 1998, Vol. 8, Issue 1Dow said this???? TREATMENT Dow Corning recommends, in their package insert 1641 from 1985, that: "if an immune response is suspected and the response persists, the prosthesis and the surrounding capsule should be removed. Such patients should not be re-implanted." We support this treatment recommendation. In addition, a ruptured implant itself is an

absolute indication for implant removal because the free silicone that leaks into the surrounding tissue from a ruptured implant is considered as hazardous as the procedure of injecting silicone, a procedure now illegal in the US, because of the enormous clinical complications that it has caused in the many topless dancers in Nevada [79,97,98].