A huge shout out to the ladies on who’s shoulders we stand … some still here, many have lost their lives already. Millions of women have been used as human guinea pigs and lied to about the safety of breast implants. Breast implants have NEVER been proven safe!
This is going to be a time of reckoning for the FDA / Health Canada … they have FAILED TO PROTECT WOMEN in regard to Breast Implants.
Doctors also must WAKE UP … they will either be found on the side of acknowledging breast implant related illness, or on the side that chooses Willful Blindness.
There are TOO MANY OF US TO SILENCE!
It’s time for the FDA to do the right thing and protect women’s safety over manufacturer’s profits.
REPORTING ALL ADVERSE EVENTS AND ILLNESS MUST BE MANDATED BY LAW!
In this photo I had breast implants, but I’m sad seeing it because I didn’t need implants to be ENOUGH … I send the pre-implants ‘me’ love. Those toxic sacs of chemicals cost me my health, without out which there is nothing.
If we only ‘got’ our worth so many industries would go out of business! I learned my worth the hard way.
Irreversible destructive changes are inevitable.
Women are being told that breast implants are safe. There are plastic surgeons stating on social media, including YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, that breast implants are lifetime devices and don’t need to be removed or replaced unless there’s a problem. They claim most will last a woman’s lifetime, in contradiction with FDA and manufacturer guidelines.
A world-renowned plastic surgeon that has explanted thousands of women, including celebrities, conducted her own survey based on her patients with breast implants. Sixty-six percent of silicone implants were ruptured, or the shells compromised, in her patients presenting with implants that were 10 years old.
Silicone breast implants were conditionally approved in 2006, with the responsibility being put on manufacturers to conduct long term studies. Initial studies didn’t go beyond 6 years (women that had breast implants 6 months – 3 years were included in the results).
Here it is ten years later.
“The Mentor Core Study enrolled 1,008 patients and follow-up rates at 9 years post-implant were 59 percent. Mentor enrolled more than 40,000 women in their Large Study. In this study, Mentor has collected 3-year data for 21% of participants.”
Most women that were supposed a part of a study have NO IDEA they’d been included and have never had follow-up. Mentor doesn’t stand alone in this regard.
ABYSMAL!
I ask again, ‘HOW LOW IS THE BAR?’ in regard to women’s safety!
Instead of being told they are safe, women getting breast implants should be told that they will be HUMAN GUINEA PIGS and that breast implants have never actually been proven safe!
#FDA #HealthCanada #Women’sHealth #HumanGuineaPigs
Women with breast implants have toxic devices in close proximity to their vital organs.
Most women considering breast implants are focused on changing the appearance of their breasts and fail to consider they will be putting toxic devices 2-3 cm from their vital organs (of course, that’s because doctors and manufacturers fail to point that out).
Respiratory changes are often one of the early warning signals that something is wrong, though most will not realize there’s a connection. One of the most common comments from women after explanting is that they can take a full breath for the first time in years.
Changes to kidney, liver, lung and digestive tract function are common.
Breast implants are often really cold – like having cold gel packs over your heart and lungs.
* Mixed media painting by Terrace artist, Cara Purita, used from the ‘Celebrate Your Breasts Project’ *
If you measure liquid volume with a yard stick you’re not going to get an accurate measurement.
Women are being told that breast implants are safe despite the fact that they’ve never actually been proven ‘safe’. At best there is conflicting opinion on IF they are safe and whether they cause autoimmune illness.
The system of measuring breast implant related illness is flawed and there is no standardization, despite breast implants being introduced to the consumer market in the early 1960’s.
There is no standard of accountability for patient safety in regard to breast implants, or for reporting device failure and illness in women with breast implants.
For the better part of two decades I was told by doctors that my breast implants (which were actually RECALLED devices) were not connected to symptoms I was experiencing. Even up to the time of explant, where it was discovered that I was quite literally on death’s doorstep, doctors locally believed I was fine.
Among a host of strange symptoms I had inflammation throughout my body, though standard blood tests didn’t indicate I did. I had a rash in my vagina, uterus, bladder and throat that was identical in appearance in each location. Also, multiple benign growths (hundreds of them) in my uterus and one in my stomach. As these issues were revealed, through scopes and ultrasound or being visually observed, it was always body-part-by-body-part, in separate instances. The tests ordered by different specialists so no one put it together; with the exception of me. Women with breast implant illness are typically the ones having to connect the dots.
Very interestingly, many women I’ve connected with that had silicone implants, especially ruptured and over 10 years old, were told by their gynecologist (after being observed visually in procedures) that they had hundreds of tiny, benign growths in their uterus. Each doctor commented they’d never seen anything like it. Not one of their doctors considered breast implants as being the cause.
Unless someone specifically looks for them, or discovers them inadvertently, you don’t know those things are happening inside your body, out of sight, out of mind.
The thing is, no one seems to be specifically looking (or, surely not many). Women are implanted with these toxic devices that sit within 2-3 cm of vital organs. They are known to be high risk devices with known issues, many of which are serious, or even life-threatening. Doctors that are convinced breast implants are safe are not ‘measuring’ women’s health based on criteria for breast implant related illness signs and symptoms, and are therefore missing glaring symptoms. ‘One plus one’ is not adding up to ‘two’ with their flawed approach.
Through social media women that have had breast implant related complications, and/or illness, are amassing in communities via the internet. The truth is coming out. The oversights and lapses in quality care for women with breast implants is gaining attention.
Years back when I was corresponding with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia in regard to my son having been released from the hospital in a critical state their response was that the surgeon had provided an adequate standard of care. My response was: How low is the bar?
I would ask the same question in regard to breast implant safety. How low is the bar for protecting women’s health? What is the standard of measure for diagnosing and quantifying breast implant related illness?
Photo: Silicone from a cohesive gel breast implant (gummy bear) escaping the scar capsule
I don’t intend to be inflammatory with the wording on this photo – it’s just time to say WAKE-UP doctors!
Breast Implant Failure & Illness 