Seven years ago today I had my badly ruptured Dow Corning silicone gel breast implants removed. I’d had them for twenty-three years. I woke up from my explant surgery SO RELIEVED that my implants were out. I didn’t want to die with those god-forsaken toxic devices within me. They’d caused so much suffering and took me to deaths’s doorstep.
My explant date is more important to me than my birthday! I know that every year I keep saying that, but it’s as true today as it was 7 years ago. I can’t begin to express the joy I felt immediately upon waking from surgery knowing the implants were out. EVERY SINGLE DAY I feel grateful they’re out of me!
BREAST IMPLANTS ARE A TOXIC ILLUSION. Breast implants don’t make us beautiful or more of a woman, they make us sick.
Spare me the ‘not everyone becomes sick from implants’ spiel. It’s BS. Whether illness or permanent physical changes from surgery and/or having implants NO ONE gets out of having breast implants unscathed. FULL STOP. It’s a matter of what, when and degree .. and IF you’ve yet connected the dots.
Removing my implants saved my life, but longstanding rupture caused irreversible harm. The irreversible harms include (but are not limited to): lung impairment, acute 24/7 pain, silicone filled breast lesions and masses, silicone filled lymph nodes, free-silicone which has escaped my breasts and migrated deeply and extensively within my chest wall (and goodness knows where else).
Even if a woman has extra capsular rupture it’s still so critical to remove the implants. At least the bulk of silicone will be gone. There will be less silicone in you that can migrate. It can prevent getting to death’s doorstep ‘sooner than later’, or save your life if you’re already there.
And so today I CELEBRATE that the toxic mess depicted in pictures included with this post is out of me !!!!!!!!!
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SOME THINGS I WANT ALL OF YOU TO KNOW:
FYI #1:
DO YOU KNOW that despite silicone breast implants being implanted in women since the early 1960’s there is STILL NO LONG TERM SAFETY DATA!
In 2006, after a 10-year moratorium breast implants were conditionally re-approved, contingent on manufacturers creating studies that would show long term safety.
Given the deadline for manufacturers to prove longterm safety wasn’t met IMHO ALL SILICONE BREAST IMPLANTS ARE NOW NON-COMPLIANT DEVICES.
Despite this, women are still unwittingly being used as HUMAN GUINEA PIGS. Except, in a lab experiment scientists are actually tracking results. In this experiment no one is keeping track. You’re a human guinea pig, but not told you are and till now no one’s really given a proverbial sh*t.
At best, ALL breast implants bleed silicone / chemicals and at worst they fail with an often catastrophic outcome to the wearer. Silicone is NOT INERT.
The industry refuses to study those of us with migrated silicone though WE HOLD THE TRUTH OF SILICONE. Well, more likely they refuse to study us ‘BECAUSE’ we hold the truth of silicone. We represent decades of data. WE ARE SWEPT UNDER THE RUG.
THE TRUTH OF BREAST IMPLANTS IS BURIED WITH US.
HOW IS IT THAT after nearly SIXTY YEARS manufacturers and regulators are getting away with saying the long term impact of migrated silicone remains UNKNOWN, when they have made ZERO EFFORT to study women harmed!
Note: It is my goal to have studies created that include women harmed.
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FYI #2:
DO YOU KNOW that it’s illegal to inject silicone directly into a human body because of the consequences to health, including death. Breast implants were created to contain silicone gel within an outer shell (shells are also made of silicone). This is an industry ‘slight-of-hand’. The industry KNOWS FULL WELL that at best the shell merely minimizes or slows down silicone migration, but doesn’t stop it. Millions of women have migrated silicone in them despite the false narrative that the ‘new ones’ don’t leak. Free-silicone within a body is free-silicone regardless of delivery approach – whether through being injected or having leaked from breast implants.
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FYI #3:
The Industry has never taken responsibility for the harm silicone causes within a human body.
My dear friend Gail Hamilton wrote a book called, ‘Breast Implants and the D.I.R.T. Committee’. When Dow Corning was facing a class action lawsuit in the 90’s they created a committee whose task it was to FIND AND DESTROY incriminating documents.
When hundreds of thousands of women claimed their implants had made them sick and caused migrated silicone the breast implant industry didn’t take responsibility. They tried to sweep the women, along with the damning documents under the rug. They still sweep us under the rug.
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FYI #4:
The ‘NEWER IMPLANTS’ ARE NOT SAFER. If anything they are more dangerous.
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FYI #5:
FDA Hid hundreds of thousands of reported Adverse Events
In 2019 an ICIJ investigation and the work of Madris Tomes exposed that FDA had hidden hundreds of thousands of adverse events reports, which included serious harm and death.
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Breast Implants and the D.I.R.T. Committee:
Breast Implant Failure & Illness 