Karen Mackenzie
I had a double mastectomy when I was 30 years old – this was after I had to endure 9 operations to remove various lumps caused by abnormal cells in my breasts. A few months later, I had silicone gel breast implants inserted...

Kacey Long
My story is featured on the MTV series "I Want a Famous Face." I'm 21 years old, and received my saline breast implants when I was 19...

Mary McDonough
I was told that I would have more opportunities as an actress if I was sexier. And I was told that bigger breasts would make me sexier. I was advised to get breast implants, but I was reluctant…

Carol Remshard
I got a breast implant to replace the breast I lost to cancer. The implant was fine for about a dozen years, ....

Beth
After having my last child, a whopping 9 + pounder (C-section), I decided to get my stomach fixed. During my consultation I also asked about breast augmentation…

Carolyn Wolf
After my mastectomies, I had reconstruction with the newest, best silicone implants, that were safe and would last my lifetime....

Kathy Nye
I would like to relate my story of "new and improved" silicone breast implants. My first experience was when I was 22 years old and had a bilateral mastectomy…

Judy Kemecsei
Three months ago I started to feel a lot of pain in my chest, burning and having a hard time breathing, and numbness and pain down my arms. I was always very fatigued, had to stop exercising, and going to work was very difficult…

Rose
After I remarried in 1990, I thought I needed to look younger, so I opted to get silicone breast implants…

Patty Faussett
Only a little more than two and a half years ago, I had a normal life, and I was completely happy and healthy. I hadn't missed a day of work due to illness for over 10 years. Shortly after getting saline implants, my life was turned upside down...

Anne Stansell
I am a breast cancer survivor. I was diagnosed at the age of 39. The doctor said I needed mastectomies, radiation therapy, and breast implants.

Pam Noonan-Saraceni
I was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a radical mastectomy. I was just 25 years old at the time...

Wanda Shatley
I was diagnosed with a precancerous tumor in 1987, and after a lumpectomy I used McGhan silicone gel implants...

Melinda Cloud
I was a young model and was adamantly advised to have breast augmentation by a physician. He said I was much too young to have such ptotic [droopy] breasts. I also had many cysts. The doctor told me that the solution was to have my breasts replaced…

Eileen Swanson
I was diagnosed with Stage II breast cancer… after which I had a modified radical mastectomy. I opted for saline-filled, because by then there was some talk of silicone gel-filled implants leaking…

Karen D.
Five years ago I decided to have saline implants put in. My surgeon had very positive things to say about them and said they would last a lifetime unless I happened to get in a very bad car accident…

Shirl
I'm a 29-year-old woman who got textured saline implants for cosmetic reasons. About a year later, the problems started. I was so fatigued that I couldn't even get myself something to eat and soon found myself out of work…


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