(This is the exact same silicone that is contained within the silicone gel-filled breast implant.)

Both my sons were born while my breast were full of silicone.

In 1968 I gave birth to a living child, just under five pounds. He was treated as a premature baby. He had allergies at birth that seemed to be life threatening. He was ill for the first three years and during this time absorbed more penicillin that you can imagine. He had what sounded like "death rattle" in his lungs, and he was always sick with labored breathing.

Later he was hyper and had learning disorders. My other son was born C-section, premature, five pounds total weight.

He too had allergies and at eighteen months he developed a kidney infection. He also had penicillin during his young years. His big problem was ear infections. At thirteen he suffered a bout with an ugly infection that started to go into anaphylactic shock from extremely infected tonsils. Cortisone shots held him until the tonsils could be removed by lazer surgery. He had a large melanoma mole removed in his late teens. He still suffers allergies.

Why did I have silicone injections?

I was unsatisfied with my breast after having lost most of the tissue following a stillbirth. I lost about five inches in the chest in one week and like most women, felt unattractive.

I sought information about what I could do and I was assured that the injections were "safe, simple, foolproof, no risk".

The doctor who injected me had injected himself many times and as a result died from complications of his own medicine, around the age of 62.

Ironically, I did not get ill from the silicone until the implants were put in. Why?

It's hard to say, but it may be the immune system was overwhelmed,
or that the surgery caused the silicone to move, or that the implant material contained some ingredient that I had an immediate reaction to.

Silicone is only one of the 39+ ingredients in an implant.

Then, there is the shell and the many problems it has been known to cause. Just look at the thousands of women who had saline implants with the silicone shell.

--THERE IS NO OTHER TYPE OF SHELL!!

I became pregnant after the injections. By now I was having some pain, itching and burning in the breast area.

Within a few months I found a tumor in my breast. The doctor said nothing to worry about, it wasn't cancer.
I found another tumor under the arm, this time it was diagnosed as a swollen lymph gland. I was told, "The silicone in your breast tissue is going to progressively continue to form tumors. Malignant tumors cannot be distinguished from non-malignant tumors by x-ray."

I was continually told to wait and watch and get a biopsy if needed. This continued, over and over. Then I went to get a routine pap smear and was told by my obstetrician (who had felt the tumor) to go immediately to the Breast Cancer center.

They immediately set me up for bilateral mastectomies within a week. The doctor told me not to worry - they could put something in while I was asleep that would make me look "normal".

During the surgery all the tissue was removed down to the pectoral muscle, leaving the skin sacs with the nipples intact.


I was 29 years old.

A polyurethane sheet was placed between the pectoral muscle and the skin sac, in preparation for the implant--to be put in three months later.

I had Cronin's teardrop silicone implants put in. When the bandages came off I cried as I looked at the two grapefruit - looking objects on my chest.

The nipples were pointing askew and I felt like a freak. The doctor acted as if he had done something wonderful for me.
This was wonderful--normal???

My story is hundreds of pages long, but here I will only tell you that I am now in my sixties and I have been a very sick woman who lost most of my adulthood to illness and deformity.

I am still alive--if you can call the type of lifestyle I have as a life.

As you can see, I eventually had to have many surgeries and every bit of muscle, tissue, and skin was removed from my chest.


You be the judge, did I deserve this?
Were injections and implants safe?
Some say I should have known better?

How many times have you trusted your doctor?

Yes, I now know I have to take charge of my own health, and I have paid the price so you (those considering implants) won't have to.

Do you really want to take a chance of spending the rest of your life sick and looking like this?

I have told my story to hopefully save at least one other woman from this tragedy. That one person could be you.

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