Explant my Implants Saved my Life

I wanted to give my testimony to as many people as possible. I had saline implants after my delivery in 1996 following a huge breast ptosis after breastfeeding. Indeed, at the time it seemed to me that mastopexy was not really mastered, I had seen the scars of some operations not really successful, I therefore opted to put implants large enough to fill in order to have the minimum of scars (periareolar) ... and I was wrong. I decided to change clinic and surgeon. I chose the Bizet clinic, Paris 16ème with a surgeon of reputation in 1997 for his talents of microsurgery of the hand, my prostheses were changed for Allergan saline profiled. Everything went pretty well until 2013, when I decided to change my implants as advised. With the saline prostheses I had a relatively soft shell, although the left prosthesis was mobile and sometimes turned on itself when it came back to its place when standing. In 2013 I was operated on by a reputed surgeon from Toulouse who consults at the Carmes whose name starts with S...., he proposed textured implants profiled in polyurethane (supposed to make less shells) filled with Silimed silicone, larger than the saline ones "so they won't turn"... his post-op follow-up was bad and void, we can clearly see that the half-periareolar sutures are bad, poorly sewn, too thick... in short, disappointed. In 2016 again a huge retractile capsulitis appears, on the right, this time, reoperation and in the meantime the Silimed implants have been banned because the health authorities have found "waste" in them. The famous surgeon replaces, in 2017, the Silimed on the right by a larger polytech still textured in polyurethane (knowing that polytech and Silimed were exactly the same companies and therefore had the same products, I did not know it) My implant is relatively unaccepted by my body, which develops a small retractile capsulitis again, the famous surgeon takes me for an idiot and tells me that the scar irregularities are in fact adhesions, which was FALSE! The retraction of the prosthesis into the shell gives a kind of suction to the half-periareolar scar. In short, the years go by and the shell stabilizes and the implant goes back down a little in its box... it's not perfect but in the meantime .... December 2021 I have an operation on my teeth for a dental implant, the surgeon makes me a sinuslift and unfortunately (which happens in a third of the cases) perforates the sinus floor which means that the bacteria of the sinuses can easily enter the gum bone, the prophyllactic antibiotic treatment should have stopped them but it was not the case and 10 days later I find myself with a 39°c fever and a new stronger antibiotic treatment. January/February 2022 the dental part of my life is fine except that I have terrible pain in my right breast and in the right side under the ribs. My doctor orders tests and a gastro-pelvic ultrasound. I had a suspicion of pelvic adenomyosis, and nothing conclusive gastrically, my leucocyte analysis showed an elevated formula, proof that the immune activity was disturbed. February/March 2022 my right breast is completely deformed, goes up horizontally, gets bigger, hardens incredibly like stone and makes me suffer a lot. At that time I met Dr. Ilmi Behluli from the Ambroise Paré Clinic in Toulouse, whose advice was unanimously positive, even for complicated cases. Dr Behluli told me straight out "Silimed/Polytech in polyurethane is dangerous and has been BANNED even in the US, you have to have implants removed and then a mastectomy". His waiting list lasts 5 months during which I suffer the martyrdom, my breast is deformed more and more the shell is as calcified so much it is hard, I begin to have pains everywhere in my body and especially gynecological problems, thus begins a very abundant metrorrhagia on June 16 which will stop only the day after my operation on July 8. I lose so much blood that I start to be anaemic which is not relevant before my operation. On the 7th of July the operation takes place, I fall asleep at 1pm and wake up at 7.30pm.... an apparently very long, very complicated and delicate operation, according to Dr Behluli During my consultation with my Dr. the day before leaving the clinic, Dr. Behluli tells me that the condition of the right breast was horrible that no one in the OR "had ever seen before", when the breast was opened inflammatory lymphatic fluid spurted out, but the worst thing is what they found in the right capsule after the total removal of the capsule, I was able to see the video and I never thought I would see this, usually these are the things that professionals must try to hide from us. On the video my Dr. opens the capsule with a scalpel, with great difficulty, and there we see an open implant that is no longer watertight, with BLACK silicone flowing out, everything is as if rotten, necrotic. I am convinced that these prostheses would have been the cause of my near death (sepsis) if I had not met Dr Behluli. The uterine haemorrhage stopped the day after the operation and must have been directly linked to my generalized inflammatory state due to the total disruption of my immune system in contact with this "rotten" or mouldy silicone, all my body pains disappeared, the right mammary gland compressed for years atrophied but my surgeon told me that this would be reversible. I feel better than ever 7 days after the operation that saved me (thanks Dr Behluli!) Some pundits in their field have no scruples and above all do not have the honesty to say exactly what the risks of this surgical procedure are, one can die from having prostheses fitted, even if they have been perfectly fitted and even if they are very well supported during the first years, it is a foreign body introduced into our body and we are never safe from a deleterious reaction of our immune system and/or a "dirty" prosthesis: waste, micro-organisms. Professionals are absolutely not aware of all the hazards of the immune system, the consequences of implants are not yet all mastered, nor all known but can be fatal.