To: Susan21,

I would prefer that you leave off my screen name. You may, if you choose place the following on the web, and delete my identification and the above paragraph. Thanks. I hope that everyone who are in the stage of thinking of having breast implants placed into their body will listen to the truth and that their inner red flag will talk to them and each one of these women will choose to not do it. When the implants were put into me, no one was warning us. Denial in manufactures is a very poisonous state of the mind, just like the implants. Why can't these women just except the fact that there is no safe way to enlarge the breasts, and also except the fact that there are always people out there just ready to take their money, with no regard to the life that will be ruined. While we are home, remembering what our life use to be like before we were made sick, the people who were a part of doing this to us, are out fully enjoying themselves and on our money. Women who refuse to think about what their lives could become, are domed to live like we have to now. There is no reversing it. Getting the implants out, did not mean, for me, getting all of the silicone and the other poisonous materials that make up implants out. Because there is no way to do that. I think that most people think that the "ONLY" thing that breast implants are made out of is silicone. This misinformation needs to change. There is a critical need for the list of every ingredient in breast implants to be printed in every newspaper, and spoken about in every news show on TV and the radio.

This is a different world we live in today. Gone are the doctors whose main concern is dredging through the high snow, in the middle of a blizzard to save someone's life that has no money to even pay them, because of their caring dedication to heal the sick. No, today it seems that if you are on Medicare, etc., due to illness and disability, you are treated according to the amount of money allotted for the time even spent in a doctor's office or hospital stay. I think that the doctors have it down to a minute by minute bases. If your insurance company pays well, you will most probably spend more time being looked over and talked to and have more and better test done. Doctors use to live in the same neighborhoods as their patients, in about the same quality of homes. Take a look at how they live today. Very wealthy. Wealth at any price? If we are supposed to learn how to live in our unhealthy conditions, unable to earn a living anymore or have a good quality of life, and give all of that up, then I ask the doctors and manufactures, to do the same. I believe many absolutely understand, that what they have done, was to enter into our bodies implants that not only had to be removed, but in addition, ruined our health and welfare.

So why would they ever even consider doing it again. Greed? A seared brain, that no longer says, '' FIRST DO NO HARM'' ? These doctors have friends and or family members who are doctors. They hang together just because of that alone, and that they have to see each other daily at the hospitals, and that they entertain at each others homes, and that they play sports together, etc., seems to me has changed there moral codes in today's world. They do not have to spend their days looking at us and be reminded of what we have to live like. They do not have to pay for our medical bills, no we pay them to try and treat us.

They are friends with each other. Only the doctor's who are brave and truly dedicated to the healing of their patients will ever step forward and risk telling the truth about these implants. When there is enough of them that do that, you will see a change. Other wise, don't expect to hear the truth except from the few, brave honest doctors that choose integrity at any price. How much did you pay for your breast implants and surgeries? That is sadly and innocently how much we paid for the loss of our health. I have already had a settlement. I only care to reach the women who are playing around with the idea of getting implants. Believe me, you don't want to live like I am forced to live now.

I was sitting in a dentist chair, and on his wall was a large poster that displayed and explained teeth implants. I had no desire what so ever for those things, and I asked the dentist about them, and quickly he said to me that I was not a candidate for them. I asked why is that? He said because I had had breast implants. I had put on the card to fill out in his office, as I was a new patient for him, all surgeries and health problems I have for his medical record of me.

In the future, if I need to have a hip replaced, or a knee replaced, or other medically necessary procedures done, I am going to be in very big trouble. But by that time, I won't even be so much as a memory to the doctors and manufactories and lawyers that did this to me. Do you realize that it is up to you to care about your body, because very few other people will. I think of the things I can no longer do and enjoy, the times I cannot have now or in the future. For what, because I believed many years ago that breast implants were completely safe and would not harm me? So that my breast would stick out just a little more? Because we are talking about inches not feet aren't we.

Those inches and those lies that the manufactures and doctors told, cost me my health. Health means vacations that don't have to be thought out and planned around my illnesses, health means not having to put eye drops in my eyes because I can't produce enough tears on my own, health means being able to have the windows down in my car and feeling the breeze on hot day, or having the air conditioner on or the heater on in that same car without having to make sure the air ducks are off on my side because I can't stand the air flow hitting my eyes. Health means not having to pull off the road to put more eye drops in, if I am the one who is driving, or having to wear glasses to help stop the wind from hitting my eyes. Health means just being outside on a windy day and enjoying it. Health means not having to gather up my eyes drops, and something to drink or suck on at all times and taken with me everywhere. Health means not having to have to have those things next to my bed at night as well.

My eyes are but only one of the things that the implants have done to me, but my eyes are a very important part of my body. My eyes hurt a lot and the eye drops are expensive. Oh I could go on and on and tell you about how I don't have enough saliva anymore, or the pain in my muscles and about the joints and the extreme exhaustion I live in and on and on. I cannot turn back time and go back and decide to not get implants in my body and if you get them in your body, you won't be able to either. If you have a chance to enjoy a healthy life why pay someone to ruin it. If I'd have known that there was even a chance that breast implants could do this to me I obviously would never have done that. You have been given the knowledge of that chance. You have been given more than I and the other women were ever given. If someone told you that the bridge was out on the road ahead, would you go that direction? Then why won't you listen to the other things you are warned against? We women are not enemies of each other. We are women who need to stand up for each other. However God made us was good enough for Him, and that is now, and to late, good enough for me.

Let it be that way for you. As far as for men, they can learn the same lesson or hit the road. If a man seems to think bigger breast are needed to excite him more, than he has a problem, and the problem has nothing to do with breasts. If you are one of the women who think that you can fix his problem by becoming one of the women who has breast implants than you are factually mistaken. There is something wrong with the relationship and the breast implants will not ever fix it or insure it. If his thinking and morals and lack of integrity are such, no amount of silicone or saline will ever change that. Because that is not the problem. What his attitude about himself and others is the problem. What is needed is to find out what your God says about you, who you are. God loves you just the way you are, and when you realize that and except that and become grateful for that then you won't settle for less than that from others and yourself.

We don't have to walk around trying to look perfect, because that is not reality. We are wonderfully made differently and there is beauty, so much beauty in that. There is love in that. Is that not what we long for?

Exceptance and love and to be treated with dignity? Let it begin with you. These doctors cannot give you that. Breast implants are a short term fix with an attached and serious list of health robbing conditions. Some of us have had them put in because of breast removal and I certainly say, except the health that you have left and know that you are every bit a whole women as you ever were. You are in fact the women you were before the removal and its up to you to decide if that is a good thing or not.

Go after who you want to be inside, and be around who you decide is good for you to be around. That is a price worth paying for because you will be the one who will benefit the most. To many times I have seen women get ill form breast implants, unable to do the things they wanted to do and had been doing with the very men they tried to get, keep, or entice with the implants. Many of these men were the men who tired quickly of the illnesses and turned their eyes and desires and attentions to other women. These are men who aren't worth your time of day.

I am offering this out of the motive of giving, I am not asking anything in return. I have learned to look for the motive in a person to help me decide what is truly going on. I would liked to of seen the many doctors and hospitals join into a law suit against the manufactures, it would have gone a long way in the prevention of this sort of thing happening again, as well as keeping their own integrity intact.

We could have kept trusting them or at the least, been able to see if they could be once again rusted. There are those doctors out there we can trust, its finding them that is harder now. My mother who is in her 80's can do much more than I can now. Its really rough and hard living like this. The implants are not something to play around with and the after effects are not a game that ends when you want it to. The effects go on and on. By the way ladies, there are real addictions out there right? Like alcoholism, and other drug addictions. There is also another one to add to that list if you don't already have knowledge about this one, it is sexual addictions. They are every bit as terrible as the other addictions.

Many of the men and some of the doctors who were and are so pushing the breast implants, I think are sexually addicts. That could explain why they think the way they do, and it gets passed on down the line to the women, who not realizing what the problem is, go out and get breast implants. You are good enough the way you are regardless of the reasons for getting or wanting breast implants. If breast cancer was the reason for removal of your breasts, I am most sorry, but putting in breast implants only makes the matter worse, so many of us are ill, I pray you will not be the next.