New to this Support Group- SO relieved I'm Not Alone!!!!

April 7, 2010

Hi there, my name is Becky and I had saline implants put in exactly 5 years ago

Today(4/05)I, like many of the ladies on here (within a year) began to feel

kinda " ill " or sick or just generally not healthy like I had a cold that I

couldn't really shake. Then came the body aches and extreme fatigue. All I

did/all I felt like doing was staying in bed all day and night. This was aweful

cuz My daughter was a preteen at the time and I feel I should have been there

more for her. I started losing a disgusting amount of weight about a year after

that-I'm 5'5 " and I was close to 109lbs.(I'm normally 125lbs)I kept getting

mysterious bruises all over My body, my skin hurt I had GI problems and GERD was

an understatement. I had Extreme panic attacks ontopof everything else and

intense migraines. I eventually stopped driving and then leaving the house all

together, I was devistated!!! I used to be So animated and flamboyant, I was

Always the life of the party...I began to feel like an empty shell of Myself. It

wasn't until the winter of '08 that my PCP found a lump on my right breast

between my nipple and armpit. I had a sonogram done, a mammogram and an MRI they

couldn't figure it out!!! Finally I realized it was on the other side too but

in a different place!!! We looked up my implants- McGhan 68hp, it was the

valve!!! Some how they shifted on both sides!!! After realizing this an the fact

My right breast was all squashy after the mammo, I saw my plastic surgeon, they

said my breasts looked perfectly fine and nothing was wrong and even took photos

to compare to the original pix, I still saw a difference, they blew me off. The

right on was clearly lower! After a few more months went by the REAL pain

started- anytime I would reach right to left I felt a tearing/ripping feeling in

my chest, after that things started to escalate into joint pain an stiffness I

get electrical shock pains that shoot through my knees and radiate up an down my

legs, I've been losing hair nonstop and finally my PCP ran blood work and my cpk

count was increased a little bit more than double the normal/high range, I now

have an appt. To see a rhuematologist to try to find out if I have fybromialgia

but I jus was these things taken out!!! I KNOW from what I have read that they

are the cause of this an I don't mean to carry on, but without sites like this,

I NEVER would have made this terrifying connection!

Thank You SO Much Everyone and God Bless You ALL!!!

Becky

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