Re: Re: Breast aug done on 3/6/09 and I have shortness of breath...

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To tell you the truth the way I have explained what I felt after surgery is "it felt like an elephant was sitting on my chest". After much research and the support of this group I have realized that I was young, uninformed and made a descision that has changed life. For the last 5 years implants have restricted me from being so much that I wanted to be in life. At first to tell you the truth I was very upset by the fact that everyone told me "to just have them removed". Never in the 11 years that I had them had I regreted getting them. Now that I have been informed by this support group, my personal research and information that my implant maker has supplied and/or failed to supply I realize had I been informed of ALL the risks involved i could have saved myself, my Xhusband (yes I do say X with a capital letter for a reason) and my children

alot of misery because maybe from the getgo of these symptoms I would have know where to go to get the correct treatment. I have only known for a few days that this is even a possible cause for the misery that I have suffered. But in the last few days the inforation I have found is overwelming. I have an appt Monday with my P/S and I have to say I am quite interested in seeing what she has to say about all of this. I can tell you I am not sure that after all the information I am walking in with and the questions that I have I am not sure that she will even touch me. I can not say that when I got my implants (at age 24) I would have made a different choice but I can promise you this I will take the information that I have gotten and make sure to use it now. In my opinion at 24 years old you are not prepared to make this kind of choice. I wish you the best of luck. Be openminded when looking at the information given and make sure you make an informed

choice on what you what to do about it. I have made my choice and no matter what my p/s says I know what I want to do. Welch

From: glory2glory1401 <glory2glory1401@...>Subject: Re: Breast aug done on 3/6/09 and I have shortness of breath... Date: Saturday, March 7, 2009, 5:27 PM

Hi, and welcome,I'm sorry to hear you are having trouble with your breathing... .You will have to give yourself some time to heal from this surgery,though we've had women who have reacted negatively right away from theirbreast implant surgery, and have never recovered well enough to keep theimplants in. Some women have had to remove their implants quite soonafter the initial implantation due to symptoms that never get better.In fact, I just got off the phone with another young lady who is 6 weeksout from getting her breast implants, and she is getting them removedASAP, because she has been so ill.Gretchen Cannon is another woman who got ill right away from herimplants, and suffered so much...you can view her story here:www.myimplantstory. comYour doctor sounds like he lacks skills in relating well to hispatients.. Maybe he is going through some personal problems of hisown???

I've never heard of him, and we have never had anyone on ourgroup go through explant with him. We have two female doctors listedfor explant in Washington, both in the Seattle area.Give yourself a few weeks to heal, but keep track of those symptoms andwatch for anything else that may happen in the future. I got sick about8 months after getting my implants, while some women don't get sickuntil several years later. It can happen at any time, and it can besudden like you hit a wall, or it can creep up with many little symptomsthat seem like "aging". Except that women in their 20's don't age,right?I wish you well!Patty--- In , "miznusbaum" <miznusbaum@ ...>wrote:>> Hello everyone,

I am so glad that I found this group! My surgery wentvery well and it was yesterday; however today I am having troublebreathing. My chest area feels so tight and constricted. I feel it isdue to the bra being so tight and the strap they put over them to "holdthem down" is SO TIGHT. Has anyone else had this symptom?>> I did alot of research on my doctor and he came extremely wellrecommended but man he is not a people person. I would say he is on theverge of being a .... well for lack of better words a jerk. He alwaysseemed uninterested in what I have to say. When he called me thismorning to check on me I asked him if it was normal that one breast wassmaller than the other. He went on to tell me he expected this out of mypersonality type, he stated I was "high energy" and that he expected meto very "picky" but not to worry because it is normal for each breast toheal differently. I felt that was

his way of calling me a bitch. Histone sounded annoyed, now I do not feel comfortable to call him with anyquestions or concerns! I hope to give the info on my doc to peopleconsidering going to him, it would have been worth it to pay the extrafrom the other surgeon I interviewed. I wwould have paid 500 bucks extrafor some compassion!>> I am located in Olympia, WA and went to Dr. Reus who is with the FineArt Plastic Surgery Group. Any information from this group would be wellappreciated! !>