Gina Brock

Im so sorry for both of you above that are going through so much. I am working in putting a website together this weekend to document what has happened to me. My right implant began with a seroma IMMEDIATELY after surgery. Doctor Arguello said it was normal...when I got home 6 weeks later, I had seroma burst thru the skin and drain 1200cc of yello fluid. In September it extruded thru the incision. It had to be removed. The doctor here in Texas found nylon 5 nylon stitches INSIDE. That was another reason why I was infected. My body was rejecting the sticthes inside. By December when I was supposed to be healed, I was still oozing from a inch hole and my wound was not closing. Emergency surgery found a golf ball size mass of fibrous adipose tissue, granulated tissue, ABCESS, and foreign body (NYLON STICTHES) interwrapped ina dna round the mass! An abcess that size could have killed me, but at the very least, it has made me sick for 6 months.

Yes I had these implants too in Costa Rica and have had the same symptoms and reactions that you describe. But please don't assume that everyone who chooses to go outside the USA for surgery cannot afford it here. It wasn't a monetary reason that I had them done in Costa Rica. The doctor told me about all his American experience, ie John Hopkins, Shriner's Burn Center Memorial herman, Texas, etc...my husband and I stayed ONE MONTH in Costa Rica, for the surgery and our ONE YEAR Anniversary. We spent over $15,000 that month, so I actually would have saved money having them done here. I could have died last month if I hadnt had emergency surgery before Christmas.

Well, I found a great doctor in The Woodlands, Texas. Dr. Thomas Shannon. He is the one who has had to operate on me twice after another doctor scarred and infected me! Dr. Shannon first only had to create a two inch incision to remove my 625 silicone implant once it started to extrude. The previous doctor told me he was going to make the same 2 inch incision, but instead I have a four inch incision in my breast crease! Secondly, Dr. Shannon recognized the severity of my infection from a foreign body aka nylon stitches. Little did he know, and was he surprised when he found a large mass inside my breast that was nylon stitches and tissue wrapped up in a ball around an abcess! I could have died! But Dr. Shannon has been seeing me since September and it has cost me very little out of pocket so far.

I just found this on CNN. I will have all this info on my website SOON! But I guess I'm lucky to be alive! LAVANDERA: But traveling south for cosmetic surgery is not always so successful. A five-month CNN investigation found that some Americans are coming home with deep scars and life-threatening infections. This woman, Melissa Bold (ph), died after traveling to Costa Rica for work on her tummy and breasts. Her husband says Doctor Alberto Arguello promised the surgery was not life-threatening. Doctor Arguello's lawyer Will Solano (ph) told CNN, quote, "every plastic surgeon in the world has at least one patient die" and that Melissa had a "good outcome" but died of an embolism after her surgery.

AND THE GALL of that doctor to advertise on his website that his materials are FDA approved. Quote: "That is the reason why ALL his surgical and non surgical materials are approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States of America." THAT IS A LIE! My implant is only in clinical trials here in the US and not approved yet. So the $1000 I spent on the actual SILICONE implant is completely a LOSS. So unless I go back to the {edited}, the warranty is NO GOOD!