Support Group Messages ~ 8.24.2006

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Dearest Group,

Just a quick note to bring the following items to your attention and welcome new members. Please meet and welcome our newest member, Cyndi below.

I'm very excited to be doing a Radio Interview with Dr. Sherrill Sellman, author of Hormone Heresy Monday morning at 11am ... check website for links.

Some good news ... Lany's site is up again ! Click

here.

God's blessings on us all.

Love from Ilena

www.BreastImplantAwareness.org

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1855602,00.html#article_continue

Excerpt: " Plastic surgery is as cheap as joining a gym, " she told the Guardian. " It's like dying your hair red

or something. "

http://www.sfdct.com/newsdocs/Cumulative%20Payments%20Made%20as%20of%20June%2020,%202006.pdf chart shows the (small) amounts paid out in the Dow Bankruptcy.

For more information on the changes in the accepted plan ... click

here and/or send link to your attorneys, please.

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NEW & VERY IMPORTANT !!!

From: Rogene <saxony01@...

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Date: Aug 24, 2006 12:11 PM

Subject: Important Notice - sick implanted women and offspring sought

www.BreastImplantAwareness.org/offspring.htm

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ilena@...

From: cyndileep@...

Date: Aug 22, 2006 10:01 AM

Subject: SUPPORT

I just wanted to say thanks for the support. I am also a silicone breast implant survivor. I received my breast implants in 2001. My implants were from a study for Mentor to try to prove how safe they are. I started having a lot of muscle pain and other symptoms about a year after I received the implants. Every year I would go in and fill out paper work to tell them how I was feeling and if I had any change in my health. I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Fibromyalgia in 2003. All of my blood test were normal. The diagnosis was based on physical symptoms. I started taking all kinds of RA medication, like methotrexate, humira (which is very expensive), bextra, flexeril anything to relieve the symptoms. I had all kinds of side effects from the medication. The plastic surgeon that I was seeing for the study told me it couldn't possibly be the implants, even though most of the paper work that I filled out asked if I had developed any Rheumatic symptoms. I was told by several doctors that it couldn't be the implants. These were new and improved implants and they were not leaking. To be in the study I was asked to have an MRI at different times to make sure that they were not leaking. I had one in my first year and then I asked them to pay for a second one when I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Which they did and they were still not leaking. I had a third MRI a couple of months before I took them out. I had to quit my job because I could barely walk and was very fatigued. I could no longer take care of our four children at home and my husband is a minister so he was not at home a lot. Our finances were getting worse with all the medical bills and me not working. I had become very depressed. This was my second marriage and my husband and I had only been married since January 11, 2002. I had been sick almost the entire time we had been married. I felt like at the age of 35 my life was being sucked out of me.

My husband and I started doing a lot of research and decided that I should take the implants out. What was the worst that could happen? I would take them out and not get better? At least I would know that they were out and not causing me to have more symptoms. I had them taken out this year, February 2006. I have regained all of my mobility and am no longer fatigued. My implants had not ruptured or leaked according to the plastic surgeon. I did receive them back for a few days until they realized that Mentor wanted them back. They looked in good shape, but I believe that because the outside of the implant is made of silicone, that that is what I had the reaction to. The capsules inside my body had contracted so much that the implants had doubled over on themselves. In other words they folded over like a sandwich and made me look bigger than I really was. There was a permanent crease down the middle of each implant. My body was rejecting them and making me have all kinds of symptoms and I was very glad that they were out. I just wanted my life back. I am doing much better now and am going back to work. If I can say anything to someone considering implants it would be that, " Your health is not worth having bigger breast " . Breast cancer runs in my family and I told my husband that if I ever get breast cancer I would rather have nothing, then to put implants back into my body.

I just want to say thanks for the support.

Yes you may share my story with your group. I think there are a lot of us out there that want to know that we are not alone in this.

Blessings,

Blessings,

Cyndi P