comments.gif - 3.8 K I sincerely appreciate this, and, other websites that offer information & support for silicone implant survivors such as myself AND, my daughter - who has many of the same symptoms and debilitating pain, that I do. I breastfed her with the assurance from my doctors that it was "perfectly safe" to do so, and, afterwards, when it was far too late to prevent the damage, I learned that one of those "perfectly safe implants (that Dow Corning promised would last me my lifetime!)", had been ruptured as my baby girl innocently was being fed!!! I just saw a segment of "E.T." on tv this week, which featured a number of 'swimsuit' models who were carelessly insisting on having silicone breast implants, in spite of all that's being discovered about the horrible risks involved - because they beleive these are imperative to their 'looks' and subsequent 'careers'. To those misguided women, I would like to say LISTEN to someone who has been right where you aspire to be - spare your bodies, your health, AND, your lives, and spare yourselves from being "the STAR of your own personal nightmare"! I am a former swimsuit model, renowned personal trainer, and successful athlete, who was featured in, and on, the cover of, many magazines (such as "SHAPE"). Please, get that poisen out of your lovely, healthy young bodies before it destroys you, as silicone breast implants have destroyed me, and my promising career. If you could only see my portfolio, and pictures of how lovely, healthy, vibrant, and athleticly fit I once was, compared to what devestating, chronic illness AND PAIN, has done to me in only a few short years - because of a ruptured silicone implant. THINK AGAIN!!...if you believe it won't or can't happen to you, and THINK AGAIN!...if you believe your 'career' will be enhanced, when, after a few years, you become horribly ill, from the 30 or 40 poisenous chemicals in your implants,as they begin to break down your bodies defense mechanisms! HOW MANY MODELLING JOBS will come your way, when you are in bed from fever.
J.S. Lacy
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I CAN SAY FIRST HAND THAT THEY ARE DETRIMENTAL TO THE HEALTH OF THE AMERICAN WOMEN. THEY HAVE MADE ME SERIOUSLY ILL, AND I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THEM TO ANYONE!!!!
SANDRA HARDIN
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New Zealand
Date = 8 Nov 97 10:53:00
The pain we live with from the effects of silicone can't be put into words. Men will never be able to under stand how we continue to keep on going each day. If men were able to make it through ONE day with the pain from silicone, Perhaps things whould be settled and we could move on with lives!

New Orleans, USA
Date = 8 Nov 97 21:25:43
I wish my mom had never gotten breast implants. She is sick all the time and I have a lack of NK cells so I have to be careful about viruses and such. I also have too many ANA cells and they are banded and speckled. My mom had implants put in 6 months before she got pregnant with me. I love my mom and I'm glad she is my mother but I wish she did not have implants. I also wish all her great friends who are also sick from implants had not gotten implants. It is really bad that so many people are sick because women have been made to feel they should look like BarBie Dolls. I gave all my BarBies away when I was 10 years old because I elt BarBie had made my mom sick, I am 12 now.
Lakeside, CA USA
Date = 29 Jun 97 04:18:47
Hi Everyone: 
I am a 49-year-old former Medical Office Manager, breast implant survivor. I have been totally disabled for almost three years now. For many years before I was forced to go on Disability I kept trying to find out what was wrong with me. I believe that breast implants are fatal. Every day is a struggle for me. I must go to a local hospital once or twice a week and have immunoglobulin IVIG because I have developed Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathies. This causes me to be so weak there are times when I cannot even hold my head up or walk or even sit up. I walk with a cane. My husband of 31 years must take me in a wheelchair if there are stairs or alot of walking to do. I rarely leave my home except to go for Doctor appts and to the hospital. I am the mother of two wonderful sons. They call me and check on me all the time. If it were not for the support of my family, I don't know how I could make it. I feel so very sorry for the women who have lost their homes, families, jobs, everything they loved including their memories. I am trying desperately to get better. My husband and I were very involved in our children's lives and even raised a niece and nephew. I never dreamed that I would be so disabled at such a young age. Silicone breast implants have devastated my life and my future. Bur more than that it has affected my family and my ability to be a companion to my husband, a wage earner, and I can't even be the mother I was to my children. I have lupus markers, Raynauds, Sicca, Degenerative Joint Disease, very abnormal blood tests, high blood pressure, severe complicated migraines with stroke like symptoms and I even had a mild stroke at age 46. My cognitive skills are gone. My short term memory is a big problem. I get rashes, severe photosensitivity such that I can never be in the sun--ever. I have no idea what the future holds for me and my family. I believe that we were so very wronged by not having informed consent. Would anyone consent to this? The manufacturers knew of the auto-immune problems when I got my implants at age 22. I had them for 23 years. I tried desperately to find out what was wrong with me for years. I believe the plastic surgeons knew what was happening too. I didn't want to believe this because I had worked with doctors for years. But I know they had to have received the information of ruptures, illness, etc in their journals. How could they have stood by and watched us get sick. The doctors in San Diego have been silenced. Our great President of the American Medical Assn threatens to publicly censure and go after the license of any physician who tries to help us. I think that is so evil when so many of us are so very ill. What do I think of breast implants. I think they are toxic and fatal and I resent the fact that the FDA did not step in to give us the information and the Courts had the damning records sealed from us while we were all going from Doctor to Doctor to try to figure it out for ourselves. They knew and did nothing. That is murder. My prayers and thoughts are with all the survivors and I just wish this nightmare would end and no one would suffer the way we have. Thank you for listening. Love, Judy
unknown
Date = 28 Jun 97 18:50:01
I just wanted to say thanks to all the women who told their story in here about breast implants because for a long time now, I have been wanting to get implants but I never knew where I could go to get some informaton about all of the risks and everything like that because you can't always belive what you see on T.V. I heard from somewhere that they can inject something besides silcone not that supposibly doesn't have the same effect but i can't remember what it's called, if anyone know's what i am talking about, please sign this screen and let me know where it is and how i can find out more info about it. thanks H.H.
Date = 26 Jun 97 04:07:11
Sale Creek, TN
I feel my implants are making me sick. I am always hurting every minute of the day and night. I have had most symptoms that every- one else is having. How can we all have the same sickly medical symptoms and there not be a link to our illness's? I feel comp- ensation is necessary. I can no longer afford to pay anymore of the medical bills from where I continue to have to go to the doctor. I am constantly on medications. And of course they can't find anything wrong. I'm 37 years old and feel and act 57. I am so tired of being tired. Why can't someone help? When is someone going to wake up and admit we were done wrong. I feel faulted for trying to make my apperance better. I feel wrongdoings for some- I tried to do right. Could someone please help? I want my implants out. I want to look normal again. I want to feel normal again. Please someone help.
Thank You Debra Levi
Cold Water, MI USA Date = 23 Jun 97 00:48:01
I don't appreciate being used as a guinea pig. I now know the truth behind this wrongful doing and I am teaching my daughter about these truths. My daughter is 29 years old and has just recently been diagnosed. I do not want her to fall prey to this madness. Her doctors told her Saline Implants are OK. She has told them different. She told them, "No way will I have even Saline Implants because the shell is still made with silicone" and she does not want to go through the Hell that implants put me through since 1979. After multiple ruptures and contractures I had my implants removed for good in Oct. 1996. I think they need to accept responsibility for their actions and insure that this form of horrendous torture never ever happens again.
Ponchatoula, LA USA
Date = 29 Jun 97 19:27:25
Since i have had my implants removed i have never been well. every doctor that i go to really do not know if i got sick from them or what. well i know that i got sick from them i do not care what they say i wish i would never had them but now they are removed. now if i could only get better. some times the pain that i have is unbearable sometimes i wish i would leave this world but i guess the good lord will make that decision..
VIRGINIA BEACH , VIRGINIA USA
Date = 11 Jul 97 00:12:17
I was considering getting breast implants within the next year, but I wanted to get as much information as I could before I made a final decision. I'm really insecure with my breasts, that they aren't the actual size that I would want them to be, or my husband. I know that my husband loves the way I am. And after reading and looking in to the risks, I am happy to say that I would never do anything that could bring harm to my body. I love myself the way I am. Thank you for the information that you provided for me, and helping me make my final decision not to go thru with the surgery.
Ukiah, CA USA
Date = 12 Jul 97 16:10:44
I think that they are dangerous, but I would like to learn more. Would you please mail me some more info? I am writing a speech about implants and I need alll the info I can get, thanks
Florida, USA Date = 13 Jul 97 03:09:48
I believe they are a nightmare to any person to have. They have ruined my mother for life. She is now losing her hair and her left arm gives out all the time. And everyone looks the other way when she tries to get help for this. Dr. Vassey is the only fighting for right now. How dare any such person or company risk the lives of women. People say that women were warned about the risk. That is a bunch of malarky because any women with a two cent brain would have declined if they knew that they would have so many health problems with making this change. Natural would have sounded much better to them. HELP FIGHT THIS! If anyone has any advice that I can tell my mother please e-mail me at Hady2@aol.com Thank you for your time.
Sincerely, Heather
N. Augusta, SC USA Date = 13 Jul 97 03:44:00
MY THOUGHTS..IT IS THE GREATEST SIN SINCE THE HOLOCOST......THE POSIONING OF MOTHER ,DAUGHTERS...CHILDREN.....LOVE AND BLESSINGS ...PAULA
Little Rock, AK USA
Date = 14 Jul 97 02:49:49
I think it's so sad that we live in a society that is so driven by the way we look that it forces millions of women to put foreign objects in their bodies, and starve themselves if necessary...whatever sociey wants. When will it all end?
Ensenada, Mexico Date = 20 Jul 97 04:05:39
Well, all this problem of women that are worried in having a good body because they don't accept there self as they would like, its because moral values of women have been always impossed by thoughts of men, we are always worried of what is going to think the man of us, we are always thinking to delight a man, and well its Ok, but not at that point and introduce chemics to our body without thinking that there is going to be sideeffects, breast implants its the fastest way or the lacy way to obtain something, I mean that theres other ways toi look better as doing excercise. If we start accepting our self just as we are, we can change the way men see us, like a model our something like that. But like me there are many thoughts of women so different or likely that thats why there's still breast implants. Its a matter of women education, and it has to start since elementary school. And also men's education, because they have to change there thoughts: woman its not a sexual object or that has to be perfect, because there aren't beings perfect, (Just God). Well something like that. I hope my thoughts can help to enrich your campaign agaist Breast Implants. Thanks for you attention.
Sincerely, Edith Duarte
Date = 25 Jul 97 04:26:18 Date = 25 Jul 97 04:26:18
Solon IOWA USA
I had Dow implants since 1974. When I was 20 yrs. old. Just to please husband. Wrong! Diagnosed with m.s. 1990.Body aches all over.Face is hard for me to smile tight skin.Also had child 1985 he has a chronic disease.Almost miscarriaged him.All from lies!!!
Springfield, IL USA
Date = 6 Aug 97 02:31:22
I got saline breast implants 20 years ago and have been completely happy with the results. No ill side effects, improved outlook on life, greater self-confidence. I look good and feel good. I had an excellent doctor who had the foresight and intelligence to recommend saline over silicone.
unknown
Date = 8 Aug 97 02:02:14
As I have been considering breast implants, I read this page and was very concerned about the possible adverse effects on my health. I am 20 years old and do not want to do something to my body that could ruin my health and cripple me for life. However, this page focuses on silicone implants and does not talk about saline or the new vegetable oil implants. I would very much like non-biased information on these. Before I even consider going through with the surgery, I need to know more. I want to know what the bag itself is made of in these new vegetable oil implants, and if it has been found to cause the ailments suffered by women with silicone and saline implants. If any information is available about this, I have listed my email address.
Atlanta, GA USA
Date = 9 Aug 97 01:42:55
I had no idea that implants were causing so many problems. Call me naive, but I didn't know. I just had no idea. I used to be self-conscious and thought that my breasts were small. My boyfriend could tell you. I'm a 36c and I thought that was too small! How stupid was I to believe society. I'll be honest. I thought about getting them. the only thing that probabaly stopped me was the fact that I could not afford them. I am so glad that I know what I know now. This taught me that I should reseach everything thoroughly, no matter what the situation may be. I am so sorry that you are ill and that you have to deal with this. By you telling your story, you are preventing a large amount of women from making a deadly and grave mistake. It takes courage and heart to do what you are doing, God knows that the manufacturers didn't do it. Thnak you so much. I will continue to think about you and pray for you. "For I know the pans that I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future." -Jeremiah 29:11-NKJV I look at this verse everyday, it keeps me holding on to the promise. God Bless You Gloria.
Destin, FL USA
Date = 9 Aug 97 20:51:48
I have had my implants for 22 yrs. and can not at this time attribute any physical problems to having them. I am sure I need to know more about replacing them because what they have provided for me emotionally has been phenomenal. I can't imagine not having the figure I have. My breast are not large by a lot of plastic surgeons standards....36C, but they fit my body shape perfectly. I am sure there are many women who are experiencing terribly debilitating problems stemming from the implants but for those of us lucky enough to tolerate them, it is wonderful.
Dallas, Texas USA
Date = 12 Aug 97 05:10:37
20 months ago I had Silicone Breast Implantation. I had heard the horror stories that women with Silicone Implants had endured but very little about Saline Implants. My mother, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and several friends had had Silicone Implants with no problems (atleast none they were aware of yet...) Less than a year after implantation I started experiencing a burning sensation down the left side of my body. The doctors were grasping at straws to determine it's cause...an injury from moving furniture (their solution a splint and rest for a week or two), a possible stroke (no that wasn't it) a heart condition (several expensive tests later...no that's not it) after 6 months of this discomfort I was forced to admit that my left breast was "shrinking". I visited with my surgeon who confirmed that the implant was infact leaking but insists that it is not the cause of my "burning" and discomfort. Now, in addition to missed work, frustration, and medical bills I have a choice to make...have the implant removed and replaced (at my expense) or have them removed (at my expense). I knew that the implants were not permanent but did not anticipate the requirement of additional surgey after only 1 year (and at my expense as the manufacturer's (McGhan) allowance will cover only a portion of my surgery and only after I have sent the implant to be sterilized and then sent to McGhan for their inspection. Who knows how long that could take...and if the implant is the cause of the burning, will it stop once the implant has been replace? It is a shame that our society has come to this...the demands are put on women today are so unrealistic "I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan (raise the kids, clean the house...) and never him forget he's a man (and look like I just stepped out of a salon and the gym while performing this multitude of tasks) O.K. I'll get off my "soap box" but seriously, I would appreciate any words of wisdom (my e-mail address is D'LynEads@aol.com) and to those of you considering implants do your research...it's not worth the frustration and hassle...there are too many other ways to boost our self esteem (and most of them are alot less expensive and will last longer) Thanks!
Coppel, TX USA Date = 13 Aug 97 02:35:10
Being a topless dancer I've seen more breast implants than the average person. Out of every 20 pairs of breast I've seen maybe one pair that looks great. I used to want to get mine done but after seeing and reading information about them I'm now to scared!!!! For me thats's good. I belieave that there very dangerous. But every now and then I'll see one good pair of breast that are implanted and it makes me very envious. But I still have to look at the big picture. Even though my breast are a c cup I still make just as much money as the girl that's got the implants. I think I'll keep my own..
Vero Beach, FL USA
Date = 16 Aug 97 14:11:37
I was implanted in Sept 1990 within 1 month one had to be removed because of infection (pseudomonis) became very ill, and subsequently lost 3 years' work. Had implants removed in 1992 and here it is 1997 and I am still not well. Personally I feel the F D A is at fault as well as the physicians, and the implant manufacturers. Most people are not research oriented and believe what the medical community says to be "gospel". The F D A is just another "government" agency and we all know what the government is like now! I certainly hope that all of the implant survivors will triumph and recover part of their loses and e able to carry on with their lives as best as possible.
Date = 17 Aug 97 22:10:52
Ponca City, Ok
I'm a teenager who wants to get implants when I am an adult. Its true, they are very dangerous but girls who get them look very attractive and I want to look that good when I become an adult. Society just looks at image these days,(like how beautiful a girl is) I dont feel that I'm beautiful enough and that if I got implants one day it would help raise my self-esteem. Is there any way they are getting safer? Or could be safer in the future??
Thank you very much for reading my thoughts about implants.
Lindsay
Petaluma, CA USA
Date = 19 Aug 97 03:20:23
Have them now. Last six months ill without a cure. 33 yr WF good health and have had implants close to ten years. Tired of living like this.
Danville, CA USA
Date = 19 Aug 97 01:35:21
I have been I'll from silicone implants that I had removed in l993. Had them placed in l987 and was told I'd revceive McGhan double lumen and after pathogist report found out that I received both silicon and saline in one envelope which was quite unusual for Mc ghan ( they called them mcghan 42's). Had 5 capsule contrractures , knew nothing about other women illness because i was running my own business and was too busy to pay attention to news, etc. and thought maybe my illnesses where from being tired, etc. Started with earached left side, and no doc. could figure out what problem was then i was on antibiotics for 2 years and ended up with cnandida overgrowth ? , couldnt eat anything except chicken and lettuce, down to 98 lbs. and continued to get sicker. Finally told doc. to remove implants, even though he doubted that this was cause. Went for prelab blood work and met a gal in room , we startted talking and low and behold she was in for same thing. She had me go to a local support group that sat. and everything that I had wrong with me was listed on their black board as possible symptoms. Needless to say I had my implants removed and have gained weight and feel better except for frozen left shoulder and pain persist in that left ear. Also extreme exhaustion and depression and some neur. difficulties. What I cannot work becuase of these problems, does anyone else have ear pain and found any sucessful treatments? What do I think of breast implants, I wouldn't wish them on Hitler!!!
Quesnel BC Canada
Date = 22 Aug 97 01:32:23
I think its kind of a silly thing to do to one's body. I would be curious to know how many women in the United States and Canada have had this done and what ages women are when they consider it? I liked being (full chested) when i breast fed my children, now I'm "small" but I've done what nature intended my breasts to do "feed my babies" I wouldn't consider surgery to have a false look.
Winter Park, FL USA Date = 22 Aug 97 02:33:49 I had Dow Corning silicone-gel implants for 20.5 years and had them explanted with no replacements on 10-19-94. I was so sick, I had to quit my employment but have slowly been improving now. Aetna refused to pay for my explant and I am now suing them. It helps me to help others; I have a free brochure I will send anyone on how to go about obtaining approval for explant from whoever their insurance carrier is. Just send me a SASE, No. 10 (4 1/4" X 9 1/2" approx.) envelope with 32 cents in postage to Barbara Stock, 415 Kilshore Ln., Winter Park, FL 32789, brstock@aol.com. After you have read it, if you have questions, I will be happy to try to help your personally, if my energy and health permit. Let me know what insurance turned you down; I am particularly anxious to hear from women turned down by Aetna or U. S. Healthcare, UNITEDhealthcare and Metrahealth who merged with them as of 7-19-96. It is time they paid or gave you approval! I know what their guidelines are as well as those of a host of insurance companies; no more keeping us in the dark! I have won count 1; they have agreed in court filings they should have paid for my explant. On to count 2 in that they negliently done this not only to me but others!
If you have insurance problems in regard to insurance, I look forward to helping you!
Barbara Stock
Solon, IOWA USA
Date = 25 Aug 97 04:29:16
I would say to every women don't have them.I had mine when I was 20.I had to quit my very good paying job because I was to sick to work.Put on disability.Almost miscarriaged my son and he has a chronic disease since 7yrs old.It's hard getting up in the morning because you look at your child going through the same severe pain you are.And now a doctor says they can take my child away from me if I can't take care of his disease.It's all from lies and greed.I would have never got implants if I knew the risks.Every day I wish I could turn time back but you can't.
Alameda, CA USA
Date = 26 Aug 97 00:48:11
I had one implant 28 years ago to correct "uneven size" I have had burning pain ever since. I breastfed my two sons and I am so scared for them now. I want to have my implant taken out and I am afraid to go under the knife. I hope some other people who have been through this will write to me.
California, USA
Date = 26 Aug 97 20:47:34
I have suffered for over 10 longer year. I am now on o2 24 hrs. a day. My implants were put in 22 years ago. Removed for the first time after cancer in 1989 and re-placed. I now live with the on going pain and life style. Signed
The Young and the Breastless
Shreveport, LA USA
Date = 5 Sep 97 04:03:09
I have had my implants for 13 years. About 18 months after the surgery, I developed severe migraine headaches which to this day I still suffer from. As time went on, I developed extreme fatigue, felt "lazy" all the time, my entire body hurt. I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis approximately 5 years after my breast surgery and now along with the above, I have an un- explained seizure disorder. Believe it or not, before I had the "boob job" I was totally healthy, with none of these problems. To add to the story, at the time I had the surgery, I was working at an outpatient surgery center, and had the surgery done for 1/2 the cost. So I guess I got my boobs on sale, but look at what it has cost me.
Savannah, GA USA
Date = 7 Sep 97 01:24:26
I think more people need to know the truth about implants.
Alta Loma, CA USA
Date = 10 Sep 97 02:32:22
I have silicone implants as a result of reconstructive surgery after mastectomy in 1991. I have had the implants replace once, because they became hard. They are hard again, and my breasts are becoming more and more painful and deformed. I began experiencing fatigue and joint pain, primarily in my hips, about 6 years ago, and recently consulted a rheumatologist who could not explain the pain. They are calling it possible bursitis. I believe my symptoms are caused by my implants and I am looking for a source to have them removed. I don't think implants should have ever been used in humans until properly tested. I also think its a disgrace to our medical profession that some doctors refuse to believe their patients are truly experiencing problems.
Phoenix, AZ USA
13 Sep 97 17:54:17
I am currently weighing the pros and cons of putting implants in my body. While it would greatly enhance my self esteem, it seems the risks involved might not be worth it. The greatest debate for me at this point is the potential risks and differences between the silicone and saline implants. I am not sure if one is dubbed "safer" than the other. I am beginning to think maybe science should stop interferring with mother nature, as it habitually does in this century especially, but, on the other hand, everytime I see a woman with a large chest, I want to change my size. I think it is a definite catch 22 scenerio.
Spring Texas, USA
Date = 19 Sep 97 01:26:34
I think it is shame that the manufacturers were allowed to destroy the health of so many lives. I personally have aged 20 years in the last five and with no hopes of getting better.If silicon causes no health problems, why are we all sick with the same ailments? Also, I would like to know how many wives, daughters, mothers, etc. of the manufacturers have had breast implants. I would personally like to see all the men get penile implants and lets study them for the next 25 years.
Placerville, CA USA
Date = 19 Sep 97 01:51:43
I feel that they will slowly kill you. It's happening to me.
Debi Johnson
CaveCreek, AZ USA
Date = 21 Sep 97 18:00:22
I am living the nightmare with many others. Right now it seems my life is ruined. No energy,depression debilitating pain,confusion,memory loss. After the silicone rupture, my new P.S. convinced me to implant saline. I had read that the silicone envelope was toxic to those of us who show allergic reaction to the gel. People around me pooh,poohed that. So, 6 1/2 hrs. of surgery later, major infection, rehospitalization... The left implant(saline) has leaked, I have pain etc. My doctor(!) says in 3 months we can think about explant, in the meantime she suggests massage therapy, acupunture any alternative medicines...I was not informed that the saline was not FDA approved, I was told they were safe. Not told of the rupture rate etc. I would like to know what right do I have to informed consent? Was my doctor obligated to tell me the negatives of the saline implant? am anxious to hear. My doctor wants another 2,000.00 to remove the implants with out any reconstruction. This after I have already spent 7,000.00 I dont have any insurence.
phone = 6024882549
fax = 6024881245
Christine Anne Goodman
Canada
Date = 21 Sep 97 03:36:02
I had the surgery for breast implants nearly 14 years ago. It was one of the best things I ever did for myself. I haven't had any trouble at all.

eh?...ed.

Perry, FL USA
Date = 28 Sep 97 05:50:12
I was so happy to find your site...Nice job, ladies! I have had multiple sets of implants due to mastectomy 1982... Everything out now...but I am still very sick and 100% disabled. If I had only known the facts before.... Breast Implants have ruined my life and that of my family... Best wishs to you!
Petrified forest NP, AZ USA
Date = 30 Sep 97 05:20:09
I have had my implants for 7 years now. I carried my 5 year old little girl while I had the implants. I just pray that this will not effect her in any way. I have not experienced any bad side effects until just the past few years. It started with hair loss,(which is the one thing that my daughter has problems with, her hair has been falling out for a couple of years now.......can anyone tell me if this is normal?......she is 5)I also suffer from fatigue, infections........I suffer from at least one infection every month either a bladder infection or a yeast infection........My doctor has tested me for everything and keeps coming up empty handed, he actually shrugs his shoulders and gives me a prescription. I also have a lot of pain in my muscles, infact right now I am having severe pain while I am typing this. I also have a lot more colds and flus........last winter was terrible....I seemed to catch everything that was going around and when I got sick I would get extremely sick, I had fevers up over 104 at times......it was an awful season for me and I'm not looking forward to this winter......I cannot afford to have the implants removed out of my body so I am stuck with them until Dow pays.....or if they ever pay!!...I just want my implants out right now I wish that Dow would at least offer to pay the medical costs for woman to have these taken out,,,,,,,,,,,if anyone can send me info on how I can lessen my symptons I would really appreciate it.....My e-mail is mystify@cybertrails.com ...right now I am taking several different vitamins and herbs.....but I am open to anything at this time.......God Bless You All!!.........sheryl
Scottsburg, IN USA
DATE = 7 Oct 97 21:02:13
I am one of thousands of women who is very sick from implants,they were removed in 1992 in Houston ,I have a law suit filed against Bristol and we have been set for trial in Feb.1997 and then moved to Sept.of 97 and as of today the Judge has not given me a new date.STALL tactic.My case is the first one that is to go to court in this district(Federal court in Louisville,Ky.)I sure could you any support near or far.I will visit the site and update you on any new dates or information.
Byron. CA USA Date = 11 Oct 97 15:43:32
You can certainly make this comment public - I'm looking for input! Have been thinking about getting implants, but know its not a good idea. I need someone to talk me out of it. Let me know the bad part of implants, so I can fully understand what I would be subjecting myself to.
Byron CA USA
Date = 12 Oct 97 18:10:31
Please make my comments public!!
Thank you all very much for your very quick support. I received many responses to my questions on 10/11 "whether to get implants or not." I have saved all the messagesl so that in the future if I think I need implants I will read the responses I received from this web site. I have realized how important my health is and how lucky I am to have heard from those of you who had the time and interest to share with me. I wish all of you the best.
Kay Smith
Clarksville, TX USA
Date = 12 Oct 97 15:47:16
Find out in my new bookBreast Implants: From Hell to Healing. I will send a free copy to anyone who cannot afford one. (while supplies last) My book contains a story that must be told, especially with manufacturers trying to get silicone implants back on the market without restrictions. We must stop more unsuspecting women from playing Russian roulette with their health and lives. Send requests to P.O. Box 1204 Clarksville, Tx 75426 or e-mail me at 105674,607@compuserve.com
E. Lansing MI USA
Date = 13 Oct 97 23:28:44
I feel that breast implants should be allowed to women if they want to have one. However, I feel that it is very important that the individual knows the consequences and elements involved with getting implants. Everyone has the choice to do as they please. Furthermore, everyone has the right to know the side-effects.
St. Catherines ONT canada
Date = 15 Oct 97 02:00:33
As a dow corning implant survivor, I believe that implants are dangerous and should be banned. Also, I believe we were lied to about the effects of silicone on our bodies.
Eugen OR
O.K. I get the picture these things are dangerous. I have considered going through with it but now I'm scared and at the same time I guess I susffer from really low self-esteem and want to do something. So now what?
541-346-0681 unknown
Date = 17 Oct 97 00:44:43
I was wonering what it would be like to get breast implants. Are there cases where some are successful and some or not? Does it depend on the doctor, the particular implant, or the way you take care & follow up after it has been done?
Ohio Date = 17 Oct 97 02:03:38 Poison!!!!!! Your list of chemicals omits one very important ingredient. Chlorplatinic acid. The platinum in a set of 300cc implants is 1500 times the amount allowed in workplace AIR in an 8 hour period. (OSHA standards) It's hard to equate what is in the air to something implanted in the body, but it can't be good. There are NO standards for what is allowed in the body, because it is not supposed to be there. The use of platinum in the body is in the form ofPlatinol, the chemotherapy drug. It is self limiting even in cancer patients because of the toxic effects, yet it's in our implants in the same form! There is research going on now.
Great site! I just got on line .
Marine City, MI USA
Date = 19 Oct 97 01:34:16
I am a 6 yr.breast cancer survivor and am very glad I did not decide to get an implant after my mastectomy. I have met several women who are very sorry they did for many reasons. After this surgery most look terrible.
Unknown
Date = 19 Oct 97 17:40:55
I can tell you what I KNOW!! my life as i once knew is gone.I am different body mind and soul. I don't like this ill person I became when I lost my health, but I don't have a choice. I hope others will someday learn. Suffering and dying will come to us all wheather we are a rich head of a big company or like many many poor people we all die some way or another. The silicone is man made death.
Greensiville, SC USA
Date = 20 Oct 97 21:58:28
Biggest mistake I have ever made.
fayetteville, AK USA
Date = 24 Oct 97 21:36:07
I think they are the reason I have been sick for the last six years.
Georgia USA
Date = 25 Oct 97 02:52:51
I have a friend who has had a very very bad trip with them. Even though she had hers removed, she has been through several years of pain, suffering, and uncertainty as to the length or quality of life she had left. I am a mental health counselor and had a client who is undergoing the same problems. It took going to "several" doctors before she was able to get any help. Then she had to interview at least 6 to get the proper antibiotics used because of previous staff infection. It appears that the average doctor doesn't have any knowledge about this problem. And those same doctors are performing the surgeries or sending women home with diagnosis unknown. This is a nightmare for women. God bless each and every one of you who are dealing with this issue.
Unknown
> Date = 25 Oct 97 12:03:06
I would like to express my sympathy to those who have had misfortunes with implants. I would also like to let you know that I received saline implants December 1990. I have not had any problems and don't regret having the procedure.
All these folk who leave these msg's never have a return address or name...ed :(
Broussard, La USA
Date = 27 Oct 97 01:36:48
I know what the implants have doen to my body.. I just wish I could stop anyone that wants them to be put in.. I got a post from someone the other day wanting the answer to the BIGGEST question I know. What has the implant done to you? Boy did I tell her.. I listed all of the symptoms and then told her that I was one of the lucky ones.. I can still move around and take care of myself at times. Most are not as lucky.. I pray that we can stop this madness and show the world that we will stand united and not give in to what the big companies want. OUR SILENCE.. As one we are quiet... As a group we are LOUD and LARGE.. We will be HEARD!!!!!!!!
Unknown
> Date = 27 Oct 97 00:59:24
young woman of today need to realize what they are doing to theire bodies. In the future there may not be a class action to afford them the finical help needed to fix breast surgery gone bad!!! Forget the pain every one knows the rest of the story, hit them in the pocketbook! $6500.00 Dec. 97!!!!
Reading PA USA
Date = 30 Oct 97 03:26:49
In 1968 I had a bi-laterial mastectomy..I was 22 years old. Three months after the mastecdomy I was IMPLANTED WITH THE OLD DOW Implants that had a mesh backing that grew into the chest wall and had to be cut away.In 1969 I started many health problems. and have them to this day. Implants are time bombs. I have had around 30 operations associated with the implants, includinging a re- accurance of cancer in 1986. I have experienced nicrosis with an implant that "popped out" of my skin...On tues. Nov 4th the LEEZA Show is having a 35 year prospective on the silicone breast implant I was flown out to Ca. to be on the panel..watch it..pass the info on.. .plus the women who had the first set of implants. I would like feed back if anyone watches the show.
Thank you, Kathy Nye
Winter Park , FL
Date = 30 Oct 97 01:00:36
I was going to place a link from the SILICONE IMPLANT SURVIVORS Web Site to yours and wanted to know what name you would like the Link to your Web Site listed under. We already have a link to SILICONE IMPLANT DISASTER you are linked to also. We are new, I help out and am not the Web Master (Louise is at JunkLady44). I was trying to see the Links are coordinated. I appreciate you considering providing a Link to http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/8689/ under SILICONE IMPLANT SURVIVORS which I could also E-Mail and what name you would like the Link from that site to yours!!
If you have trouble with my new E-Mail address above, use brstock@aol.com; if one doesn't key it precisely correct, it will not work per usual with computers!
Thank you -- keep up the good work!!
Barbara Stock
Camarillo, CA USA
Date = 5 Nov 97 22:41:06
They should be completely banned.
St. Anthony MN USA
Date = 7 Nov 97 03:46:04
They are a terible thing to have in one's body where it turns a healthy happy life into one that loses quality of life. I have them and my body has been riddled with FMS,CFS,IBS, and other related deseases, including OA. I'd not reccomend them to anyone. Unfornuately, I do not have the funds or insurance to have them removed. I'd rather have no Breasts then these things.
Lower Hutt, New Zealand Date = 8 Nov 97 10:53:00
The pain we live with from the effects of silicone can't be put into words. Men will never be able to under stand how we continue to keep on going each day. If men were able to make it through ONE day with the pain from silicone, Perhaps things whould be settled and we could move on with lives!

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