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SALINE IMPLANTS MADE ME SO SICK! SALINE IMPLANT DANGERS - San Antonio, TX
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Saline breast implants have ruined my life! I warn...
Mikayla911March 19, 2015
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Saline breast implants have ruined my life! I warn you, if you are thinking about getting them, OH MY GOSH, please don't.
Here is my story: At the young age of 21 in 2001 just one year after their approval, I decided to get the supposedly "safe" saline breast implants. Unfortunately, I was very naïve at the time and thought I could trust the fda and implant companies and my plastic surgeon, but I would soon learn I was very very wrong indeed. Just a few months after I got the implants, I begin to have HORRIBLE INSOMNIA! My body would not stay asleep. I had never in my life had problems sleeping, but now I was laying on the floor crying because I didn't know why I couldn't sleep. I also began to develop horrible stiff muscles with severe pain in my head, eyes, neck, and back. Then my urine began to smell very very foul every time I peed. I still hadn't put it together. I saw doctor after doctor after doctor just to be given antidepressants. They were clueless. The only doctor that somewhat helped me was the one who after testing me for different things told me she thought it might be my implants. She said she had another patient who was around my age 24 at this time who had the same symptoms as me and also had saline breast implants. Finally, I stopped being in denial and started researching online for other women who were having similar problems. The stories were all over the internet about women getting sick from saline implants and then some of them recovering after they got them explanted. So I scheduled an explant. Well, just 1 day after my explant, my urine didn't stink anymore! IT went back to normal! THIS PROVED that the implants were harming me and causing my body to malfunction. Unfortunately , my other symptoms have remained and seem to be getting worse. I feel like I'm dying slowly. Now I plan on detoxing to see if I can get better at all. I wrote this review to WARN you women out there who are thinking about getting saline implants. THEY ARE NOT SAFE!!!!! THE SHELLS ARE MADE OF SILICONE AND MANY MANY WOMEN ARE HAVING ADVERSE REACTIONS TO THIS. I don't blame you for wanting bigger boobs. If you really want that, look into fat transfer. There is a doctor from North Carolina Edward something who does amazing work. Ive seen it here on Realself. There is just no point in getting silicone balloons put into your body with all the chances of having adverse reactions and having your health stolen. Plus, you'll have to have future surgeries if you get them. FAT TRANSFER is all NATURAL. I WISH I could have gotten that instead back in 2001 but it wasn't around like it is now. That is my story. I hope it helps someone out there God bless!
Here is my story: At the young age of 21 in 2001 just one year after their approval, I decided to get the supposedly "safe" saline breast implants. Unfortunately, I was very naïve at the time and thought I could trust the fda and implant companies and my plastic surgeon, but I would soon learn I was very very wrong indeed. Just a few months after I got the implants, I begin to have HORRIBLE INSOMNIA! My body would not stay asleep. I had never in my life had problems sleeping, but now I was laying on the floor crying because I didn't know why I couldn't sleep. I also began to develop horrible stiff muscles with severe pain in my head, eyes, neck, and back. Then my urine began to smell very very foul every time I peed. I still hadn't put it together. I saw doctor after doctor after doctor just to be given antidepressants. They were clueless. The only doctor that somewhat helped me was the one who after testing me for different things told me she thought it might be my implants. She said she had another patient who was around my age 24 at this time who had the same symptoms as me and also had saline breast implants. Finally, I stopped being in denial and started researching online for other women who were having similar problems. The stories were all over the internet about women getting sick from saline implants and then some of them recovering after they got them explanted. So I scheduled an explant. Well, just 1 day after my explant, my urine didn't stink anymore! IT went back to normal! THIS PROVED that the implants were harming me and causing my body to malfunction. Unfortunately , my other symptoms have remained and seem to be getting worse. I feel like I'm dying slowly. Now I plan on detoxing to see if I can get better at all. I wrote this review to WARN you women out there who are thinking about getting saline implants. THEY ARE NOT SAFE!!!!! THE SHELLS ARE MADE OF SILICONE AND MANY MANY WOMEN ARE HAVING ADVERSE REACTIONS TO THIS. I don't blame you for wanting bigger boobs. If you really want that, look into fat transfer. There is a doctor from North Carolina Edward something who does amazing work. Ive seen it here on Realself. There is just no point in getting silicone balloons put into your body with all the chances of having adverse reactions and having your health stolen. Plus, you'll have to have future surgeries if you get them. FAT TRANSFER is all NATURAL. I WISH I could have gotten that instead back in 2001 but it wasn't around like it is now. That is my story. I hope it helps someone out there God bless!
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UPDATED FROM Mikayla911
13 years post
READ THIS BOOK TO KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT IMPLANTS
Mikayla911March 20, 2015
I forgot to add in my review an amazing book that will speak the truth about breast implants , saline and silicone, causing diseases in many women. It is titled "THE NAKED TRUTH ABOUT BREAST IMPLANTS" It is written by Dr. Susan Kolb and will explain this issue very well. I highly recommend you read this book if you are either contemplating getting implants or already have them and are sick.
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March 21, 2015
Also Google Dr Melmed breast implant sickness. That was very informative. It is amazing how almost all plastic surgeons are all in denial about how toxic these things are. My surgeon wasn't though. I had mine removed 9/11/2014. I feel that my health is improving more everyday. My implants stole so many years from me. I had joint pain, weird brain fog and chronic fatigue. I actually felt better the day they were removed! No joke. Thanks for warning others.
March 21, 2015
Yes, Dr. Melmed is another brave and noble plastic surgeon who is speaking the truth. (Interestingly enough I did post a link to a video of him speaking below my review on an update) I actually did a consult with him several years ago. Dr. Melmed was the first plastic surgeon who admiitted to me that the implants were making women sick because he saw them improve upon explant. I remember asking him how this is allowed to happen. He answered by rubbing his fingers together and making the "money" gesture. Yes, money truly is the root of many evils as we have learned personally through the greed of the implant companies (hiding studies, dropping the sick women from the short term studies they do have), the fda, and most plastic surgeons who refuse to listen to us nor look at the proper research. That is good to hear that you are improving already. Some women get better fast, some slowly, and sadly some never do without proper detox. We must keep telling our stories online to spread the truth. I honestly don't understand why there is no lawsuit against these implant companies or the fda at least. What they have done to us is despicable and disgusting. And it really bothers me to see most plastic surgeons claiming implants are safe on this site to naïve and clueless girls who think they can trust their advice when their living depends upon putting implants in women. Dr. Susan Kolb warns women that some women will react to the implants so at least we have her on this site speaking the truth and enlightening the doctors who are ignorant. We must continue to speak the truth about this issue wherever we can, online, to people in person, make youtube videos, blogs. Maybe one day this issue will be acknowledged by the medical establishment so that women can properly be warned and helped when they do react to the implants as many do. I hope and pray that there is a class action suit against the implant companies one day again. This is such an injustice.
March 22, 2015
You are so right. Thank god for this sight. Through research I discovered that it wasn't my age, perimenopause, heredity etc it was the inplants.Hopefully this helps women. It certainly helped me. Thanks for the discussion.
March 23, 2015
Thanks for reading and for your comments. I know that when I was starting to get symptoms, these kinds of comments and messageboards really helped me realize it was the implants hurting me. I would urge you to write your review/story on this site about what you went through. You never know who will be led to it and helped. If anything, at least our suffering can help other women see the light or even avoid this potential horrible road we have been on in the first place by avoiding getting implants altogether. Now that fat transfer is around, I really don't see the point of implants. I really wish it had been around when I got my implants. I could have avoided all of this mess in the first place. I am STILL trying to recover because I have biotoxins from the fungus that my body started producing in response to the silicone shell of the implant.
March 22, 2015
I'm sorry that happened to you, but I'm glad you're sharing your story! I saw an episode of "Monsters Inside Me" (Discovery channel?) just this past week that I think she was on! I think she is even on this website sometimes. Anyway, a woman was having very strange health problems no one could help her with and it turned out to be trouble growing inside her saline implants. She went to the dr you mentioned and had them explanted. She felt much better very soon after, but is super sensitive to mold and will be on meds the rest of her life as a result. She also sold her home and lives in a camper, which is made mostly of plastic and metal, to reduce her exposure to mold.
My DH has really been wanting me to get implants, but I don't want to - seeing this show together made me really not want to even more and he seemed a bit put out about it! I'm a B who just needs some side boob attended to!
August 2, 2015
Dr. Kolb has breastfeeding implants herself, so I guess she feels saline implants are safe?? That confused me.
UPDATED FROM Mikayla911
13 years post
LISTEN TO THIS PLASTIC SURGEON ADMIT THAT IMPLANTS MAKE PEOPLE SICK!
Mikayla911March 20, 2015
http://www.abundantlifewellnesscenter.org/breast-implant-illness
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