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    • And More Seeing With Awareness

      Posted at 5:40 am by motherima, on March 25, 2016

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      At the time the photo (wearing belly dance costume) was taken I’d long ago developed the listed complications, and more not listed. My breasts had the telltale look of being fake and misshapen. I see it all the time in photos in the media. Images that are supposed to be glamorizing large breasts, but if one is ‘seeing with awareness’ it’s easy to spot the unnaturally rounded, defined edge of the implants, especially if there’s capsular contracture. Anyone familiar with breast implants can spot them a mile away. There is nothing glamorous or ‘sexy’ about the destructive changes going on inside the chest wall! There are ALWAYS destructive changes and ALL breast implants FAIL. 

      Photos of my implants with telltale signs of capsular contracture and other destructive changes within my chest wall:

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      As is typical in photos of women with implants, most notably in the media, implants can sit as ‘events’ on top of a woman’s chest. They shouldn’t be glamorized, they should be called-out (‘they’ being implants) for the damage they’re doing within. If you see a photo of someone with implants that look like this you can know inside the chest wall things are looking pretty gnarly.

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    • What Would It Take To Change Your Mind?

      Posted at 5:22 am by motherima, on March 24, 2016

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    • More Seeing With Awareness

      Posted at 7:22 am by motherima, on March 23, 2016

       

      Picture these when you see someone with breast implants … picture them inside their body.

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    • WE are the STUDY RESULTS!

      Posted at 6:17 am by motherima, on March 23, 2016

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    • Doctors Often Rely Too Heavily On Inaccurate Test Results

      Posted at 6:23 pm by motherima, on March 22, 2016

      There was a specific point of things going wrong health-wise in 1995/96, coinciding with the point of rupture. From there I fought through debilitating illness while being told there was medically nothing wrong with me.

      Doctors relied on blood test results that were 100% unreliable in my case, stating with confidence the tests were 99% accurate – never considering I might have been that 1% they don’t work for.

      In recent years a teenager created a test for pancreatic cancer that was more accurate, more accurate in early stages, was faster, and less expensive than the traditional test. He stated they’d been relying on 60-year-old technology. The till then unchallenged old technology standard was defended as being reliable.

      I have connected with many thousands of women around the world that became ill and experienced rupture or other complications from the breast implants. Of those the incidence of women that test results were ‘normal’ for is quite staggering, given they were all very ill and symptomatic. Most, like myself, virtually bedridden.

      You might wonder how I’m so certain my test results were 100% inaccurate. Blood tests for infection and inflammation were always ‘normal,’ yet scopes, x-rays, or surgery, confirmed acute inflammation and infection 100% of the time. Though those tests were never offered in a timely manner.

      Even though it had been proven historically and consistently that blood tests had failed to reflect what was going on in my body, doctors continued to spout their party-line, “these tests are 99% accurate … if there’s even a small amount of infection or inflammation anywhere in your body, these will pick it up.”

      Except they didn’t pick it up … not once.

      It’s time for western medicine to revisit some of the tests it relies so heavily on. And, even more importantly, to SEE patients not just test results. If the symptoms a patient is presenting with are not consistent with lab results doctors might want to think outside the box instead of deciding a patient’s illness is in their head. 

      The bigger danger of that labelling is that doctors stop looking. Leaked silicone had nearly four years longer to migrate more deeply into my chest wall, past the point I’d become seriously ill.

      Just for the record, I DO NOT BELIEVE that the tests for inflammation and infection are 99% accurate, nor is it my intention to undermine good doctors operating within a flawed system. A false belief in the reliability of these tests is resulting in far too many people not being properly diagnosed. Hopefully some brilliant young mind will revisit them SOON.

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      ALL MISSED because doctors relied too heavily on test results:

      • 19 years – bone infection
      • 16 years – ruptured silicone breast implants
      • 2 years interstitial cystitis
      • acute inflammation specific to silicone

      Doctors should also have an awareness that in people with autoimmune illness there are many for whom their immune systems are not launching an appropriate response. It should be a RED FLAG that there’s nothing reflected in lab results when there should be!

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    • Worth Repeating: Be Proactive

      Posted at 4:15 pm by motherima, on March 22, 2016

      Women can falsely assume that if their doctors don’t tell them there’s a problem with their breast implants that everything must be ok.

      A regional surgeon told me that despite my experience with undiagnosed rupture for 16 years he would not proactively screen women with breast implants for possible complications or rupture, even if they presented with symptoms consistent with it, due to possible liability issues, stating that they should not expect care here. He stated he knows nothing about breast implants and has no intention of learning anything about them.

      Women with breast implants MUST BE PROACTIVE! Request an ultrasound or MRI. If you’re refused remind the doctor that the FDA and manufacturer guidelines suggest MRI’s 3-years after augmentation and every 2-years subsequently.

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      It is possible to have THIS within your chest wall, but still be told there is nothing medically wrong with you!

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    • Seeing With Awareness

      Posted at 6:27 am by motherima, on March 22, 2016

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      The day the photograph wearing clothes was taken I was already very ill. In the photo (a friend cropped out) I struck a playful pose feigning energy and vitality that had long ago left me. I could barely function. I was still trying to push through the illness that would eventually become too much to pretend through.

       

      The photo with my ruptured implant superimposed was taken during my ‘BEFORE’ photo shoot for an upcoming gallery project.

       

      When we see images of implanted women we see only the exterior. Inside, long before the women themselves are aware, their chest wall is undergoing destructive changes. Even if there is not yet ‘gel bleed’ or rupture; the body’s immune system is working hard from the time of implant.

       

      Inevitably there will be leaching of silicone and chemicals, which the immune system tries to wall off, forming a protective capsule around the…

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    • Destructive Changes

      Posted at 5:59 am by motherima, on March 22, 2016

      DESTRUCTIVE CHANGES TO THE CHEST WALL

      There are destructive changes within the chest wall immediately upon implanting, and further, often irreversible, changes will continue to occur until the time of explant, and possibly beyond if there is residual silicone. Changes to the chest wall can include: scar tissue, calcification, destruction to milk ducts and breast tissue, silicone in lymph nodes, acute inflammation specific to silicone (saline implants have silicone shells), infection, necrotized tissue, granulomas, capsular contracture, and more. These can lead to acute, chronic pain.

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      Thick calcification that was described as being like ‘concretions’. I’ve seen a video of a plastic surgeon trying to cut through chunks of calcification she’d just removed from a patient with breast implants (en bloc removal) … it was difficult to cut through and made loud cracking noises.

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    • Broadening the Conversation About Breast Implants

      Posted at 5:52 am by motherima, on March 22, 2016

      There are a lot of things women aren’t told about prior to getting breast implants, but end up wishing they had been.

      When people talk about breast implants they generally consider only whether or not they make women sick, but there is so much more to consider, and know. We need to broaden the conversation.

      The following is a list of some things to consider (there are many more):

      • DESTRUCTIVE CHANGES TO THE CHEST WALL
      • BREAST IMPLANTS CAN BE COLD, like having a cold gel pack over your heart and lungs
      • ONCE YOU HAVE BREAST IMPLANTS YOU WON’T EXPERIENCE HEART TO HEART HUGS AGAIN UNTIL THEY ARE REMOVED
      • INCREASED SENSITIVITY TO MOLD, CHEMICALS and MEDICINES
      • FINDING A SURGEON TO PROPERLY REMOVE BREAST IMPLANTS ‘en-bloc’ MIGHT NOT BE EASY
      • WOMEN NEARLY ALWAYS COMMENT THAT THEY CAN BREATHE AGAIN AFTER EXPLANT, even right out of the operating room
      • LAYING ON YOUR STOMACH IS OFTEN UNCOMFORTABLE WITH BREAST IMPLANTS
      • WHEN BREAST IMPLANTS RUPTURE SILICONE CAN MIGRATE TO THE LYMPH SYSTEM, and from there to the lungs, liver, brain, ovaries, retinas, and other places
      • EVEN WITHOUT RUPTURE SILICONE CAN BE FOUND IN LYMPH NODES AND SURROUNDING TISSUE from gel bleed
      • RASHES ARE COMMON FOR WOMEN WITH BREAST IMPLANTS 
      • MAJOR FINANCIAL COMMITMENT, especially with multiple sets of breast implants (surgeries, diagnostic testing to check integrity of implants, etc)
      • MULTIPLE SURGERIES (at least two)
      • HEALTH CANADA’S HIGHEST RISK RATING – Category IV
      • ALL BREAST IMPLANTS WILL FAIL – they are time-limited devices
      • WOMEN WITH BREAST IMPLANTS ARE HUMAN GUINEA PIGS
      • UNDISCLOSED INGREDIENTS IN BREAST IMPLANTS, including known carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disrupters…
      • WHEN YOU HAVE BREAST IMPLANTS YOU BECOME A MEDICAL LIABILITY
      • MOST WOMEN WHO BECOME ILL WITH BREAST IMPLANTS WILL BE TOLD THEIR ILLNESS IS IN THEIR HEAD
      • COST TO THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUR TIMES THE AVERAGE
      • INCREASED INCIDENCE OF SUICIDE
      • DISCONNECT AROUND BREAST IMPLANTS … often women with implants are health & fitness conscious, but have toxic devices within
      • MISCONCEPTION REGARDING MODERN BREAST IMPLANTS (the ‘new’ supposedly safer implants are made from basically the same technology as the 60-70 year old ones)
      • BUYER BEWARE – Health Canada’s stamp of approval does NOT necessarily mean a product is safe
      • IN A SURVEY, women who had their breast implants removed were asked what advice they would give to women considering breast implants. The most common response was, ‘DON’T DO IT!’

      Watch for FYI posts on many of these topics!

      Posted in Blog, FYI's | 2 Comments
    • Un-informed consent

      Posted at 5:16 am by motherima, on March 22, 2016

      UNDISCLOSED INGREDIENTS IN BREAST IMPLANTS, including known carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disrupters…

      Women can’t make a truly informed decision if they don’t know what they’re putting in their body. Breast implants contain a cocktail of toxic ingredients. There should be ingredient labelling.

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      Posted in Blog, FYI's | 2 Comments
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