~~~ thanks to all who contributed to getting this information on Tony & Micheline's incredible website ~~~ http://www.info-implants.com/Quebec/Charest/hope.html To write them: letters@glamour.com BREAST IMPLANT HORROR LEAKY, SCARRING, BLACK WITH MOLD WHY WOMEN ARE TAKING THEM OUT The shocking health claims against saline implants By Lisa Collier Cool [Glamour November 2000] Could saline implantsｭhardening, leaking, deflating and turning black with fungusｭbe making women desperately ill? Former implant recipient Kathryn Gordon thinks so, and a growing number of doctors agree. Glamour investigates. The squishy mound blackened with fungus in Kathryn Gordonｹs fridge isnｹt a lump of cheese gone bad. Itｹs what the 33-year-old former actress from Atlanta wore next to her heart, inside her bosom, for 11 yearsｭa breast implant she claims made her so desperately ill, she almost committed suicide. In 1988, when Gordon was 21, she did what most of her friends had done; she went to the doctor and got her bust enlarged from 34B to 34D. "I grew up in a beach town where if you didnｹt have big breasts, you got them," she explains. For the first seven years, she had no complaints. But then she began to notice that her joints were slightly achy, she was more tired than normal, and her hair was thinningｭthough none of the symptoms was bad enough that she needed to see a doctor. It wasnｹt until she began breastfeeding her newborn daughter in 1998 that her health really fell apart, she remembers: "We both got an awful thrush infection that made my daughterｹs mouth and my nipples bleed. After that, I was always exhausted, despite sleeping 15 hours a day. I had hot and cold chills up my spine, slurred speech and so much pain in my hands, I couldnｹt even open a jar of baby food. It was like having a horrendous case of the flu all the time," Over the next nine months, Gordon says, she saw several doctors. "Each time Iｹd outline my whole medical history, including my implant surgery," she recalls. "Theyｹd ask if I had silicone gel, and when I said, 君o, saline,ｹ theyｹd give me a big speech about how the body is made of salt
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~~~ thanks to all who contributed to getting this information on Tony & Micheline's incredible website ~~~ Please see full article & comments and photos at this site: http://www.info-implants.com/Quebec/Charest/hope.html BREAST IMPLANT HORROR LEAKY, SCARRING, BLACK WITH MOLD WHY WOMEN ARE TAKING THEM OUT The shocking health claims against saline implants By Lisa Collier Cool [Glamour November 2000] Could saline implantsｭhardening, leaking, deflating and turning black with fungusｭbe making women desperately ill? Former implant recipient Kathryn Gordon thinks so, and a growing number of doctors agree. Glamour investigates. The squishy mound blackened with fungus in Kathryn Gordonｹs fridge isnｹt a lump of cheese gone bad. Itｹs what the 33-year-old former actress from Atlanta wore next to her heart, inside her bosom, for 11 yearsｭa breast implant she claims made her so desperately ill, she almost committed suicide. In 1988, when Gordon was 21, she did what most of her friends had done; she went to the doctor and got her bust enlarged from 34B to 34D. "I grew up in a beach town where if you didnｹt have big breasts, you got them," she explains. For the first seven years, she had no complaints. But then she began to notice that her joints were slightly achy, she was more tired than normal, and her hair was thinningｭthough none of the symptoms was bad enough that she needed to see a doctor. It wasnｹt until she began breastfeeding her newborn daughter in 1998 that her health really fell apart, she remembers: "We both got an awful thrush infection that made my daughterｹs mouth and my nipples bleed. After that, I was always exhausted, despite sleeping 15 hours a day. I had hot and cold chills up my spine, slurred speech and so much pain in my hands, I couldnｹt even open a jar of baby food. It was like having a horrendous case of the flu all the time," Over the next nine months, Gordon says, she saw several doctors. "Each time Iｹd outline my whole medical history, including my implant surgery," she recalls. "Theyｹd ask if I had silicone gel, and when I said, 君o, saline,ｹ theyｹd give me a big speech about how the body is made of salt