I live in a remote community in Northwestern British Columbia, Canada. I became ill from badly ruptured silicone breast implants, and after learning of the number of women still being implanted in this region I felt compelled to speak up. As a result, my breastimplantfailure blog and celebrateyourbreasts project were borne. I was explanted in 2013 and am still on a healing journey.
2 thoughts on “Silicone Granulomas from Ruptured Breast Implants – Knowing the right questions to ask your surgeon post-explant”
Donna Dwyre
how did you come to have and hold the silicone granulomas ? Did you keep your implant ?
what question or comments to PS or pathology should be mentioned?
motherima
Donna, I got my implants back. Well, they were sent for private analysis and then returned to me. Based on my personal experience I encourage women to ask their surgeon what it was like within their breasts and chest wall. Was there migrated silicone? Were there reactive and/or silicone filled lymph nodes? Was there infection? Was there fluid? Was there acute inflammation? Was there necrotized tissue? Was there calcification? Was there a mass? Did you test for BIA-ALCL and all other implant related cancers? Was there anything else suspicious, not mentioned already in my questions? I also encourage women that had ruptured silicone implants to have a follow-up ultrasound scan about a year post explant to check for residual silicone and other implant/silicone related issues.