Gummy Bear option

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Hi All,

I am one of the women who had a bilateral mastectomy, did my fact finding, and

chose not to implant.

Thank you for your informative group. You have taught me a lot.

Now, I am active on a support group for breast cancer. There, the women often

arrive just after they get a questionable mammogram or they find us later after

their biopsy.

Anyway, they are often in the process of deciding about implants.

I don't think the medical profession is giving them all the facts.

The women want a safe and beautiful answer. They are so hopeful and

uninformed...so they go ahead and follow the first thing that the plastic

surgeon suggests...expanders and soon-to-follow implants.

I try to tell them to seek more information, but they say all the " trouble " is

with the older generation of implants. They think the gummy bear type is

trouble free.

Have any of you ladies experienced the body aches, finger tingling, fatigue,

etc. from a reaction to the gummy bear type?

My thought is that the cover is STILL in contact with the body...it's STILL made

of silicone and metal...the body STILL starts to reject it...side effects STILL

show up.

Are any of the photos in our group photo area taken of gummy bear type implants?

(I don't see that they have been labeled with saline or silicone...It would be

more informative if that were included and the date of implant and the date of

explant.) Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words :-)

Thank you.

Hugs of Support,

M.