Breast implants lots to say…

[LadyEmeraude]

A coffee shop I visit and where we sit is usually parallel a table of just a few college students. They might with a smile approach
a table and ask if it’s ok they ask a question or two.

They have okayed this with the coffee shop owner etc. Nice students, polite. Always working on their topic papers etc for class.

Anyway, so recently one of the students were doing their topic paper on ‘breast implants’

They pretty much know I am safe to approach with reasonable brief questions, but not to linger too long at my table.

With that said, I noticed also that the female student did not approach any male customers. I thought the student perhaps
needs to be more concerned and careful either with her topics which she mostly is best I know.

*So this topic can include anything about breast implants. Pros and cons, risks etc.

 

[Aunt Bea]

Not for me, I believe that we should all play the hand that we are dealt.

That said, I have no problem with what other people choose to do for elective or cosmetic procedures that make them feel good about themselves.

The good thing about all elective surgery is that it provides greater experience for medical professionals that need to perform reconstructive surgery for people that have experienced the trauma of breast removal due to accident or illness.

 

[IrishEyes]

I have watched my DIL go through so many reductions when she gains weight and her chest is all you see.
Then she loses weight and gets the bigger ones again.
Back and forth, back and forth. She works for a plastic surgeon, so she gets a rate.
Her last change she had trouble healing right.
If you can maintain your weight, the results may be good and lasting.
Not something I would have done, just as I turned down her offer to get me a rate on Botox,
I am who I am and do the best I can with what I got. (lesson learned on that perm in the 80s)

 

[Fritz]

I agree...play the hand you're dealt. Lol Bea!

I almost wouldn't mind a reduction because I would be able to breathe better.

 

[Fritz]

I can understand it if they have breast cancer but just to do it to have huge boobs is ridiculous. A female star had some watermelons placed inside hers.

She then got sick from the silicone and is now flat chested. I say leave well enough alone.

 

[Warrigal]

I agree with your point about the necessity for plastic surgeons to have experience (and income) that allows them to operate on people who will really benefit from their skills. That said, unnecessary enlargement of the breasts can have serious after effects. One of these is never being satisfied with breast size. Another is back and neck pain.

Don't get me started on enlargement of the buttocks.

 

[oscash]

It's not for me, but I can understand why some ladies have them. My friend was diagnosed with breast cancer and had the breast removed. She wore a surgical bra for many months and then decided to have the other breast removed because she carried the cancer gene. She is so happy now that she went through this procedure

 

[Della]

Of course I believe everyone should do whatever makes them happy, and I'm not going to talk about reconstructive surgery after cancer or reductions for health purposes. I'm just talking about the 70% that don't fall into the reconstruction area.

However. I think it's a crying shame that so many women today think that they should spend a huge sum of money and take the risks involved in major surgery, all to exaggerate a secondary gender characteristic for the purpose of increasing sexual desire in men. I'm sure they'll say they did it for themselves, but I seriously doubt that a woman living alone on an island would have balls of saline implanted in her chest wall just "for herself."

It's not one bit different than Chinese women, 200 years ago, getting their feet bound because it turned on the old men. Except those young girls had no choice.

 

[LadyEmeraude]

Over the years I’ve had three female friends who chose breast enhancements mostly because they desired larger breasts. Two were in their 30’s at the time and one early 40’s. For two of them things seemed to go decently for years with no real complications.
The other one developed breast cancer 3 years after the implants. . Related or not I don’t know.

 

[Imogene]

And I have spent years wishing I could sell what I was given by birth ——

 

[Muskrat]

Not a choice I would make for myself…but know some who are thrilled with their “girls”. At this age if I cant just roll back the clock 20 years I will stick with my itty bitties

 

[TeePee]

I have watched my DIL go through so many reductions when she gains weight and her chest is all you see.
Then she loses weight and gets the bigger ones again.
Back and forth, back and forth. She works for a plastic surgeon, so she gets a rate.
Her last change she had trouble healing right.
If you can maintain your weight, the results may be good and lasting.
Not something I would have done, just as I turned down her offer to get me a rate on Botox,
I am who I am and do the best I can with what I got. (lesson learned on that perm in the 8

I tried to respond to your post and the site wouldn't post it saying there were only 130 words allowed in a paragraph. I narrowed my post down immensely and it still wouldn't post. I don't know what the key to posting is, when your paragraphs are less than 130 words and it still won't post it. The only reason I'm writing all this is I accidently erased part of your post when erasing mine. I'm sorry.

 

[jujube]

If you've ever watched the TV show "Botched", you've seen some unbelievable breast implants. Not just women, either. In fact, not just breast implants.....butt implants, hip implants, arm implants, cheeks, lips......all of which have developed problems. The doctors on "Botched" try to talk the patients into going down to a more reasonable size or at least not to go any bigger.

 

[AnnieA]

I was briefly a microbiology doctoral student at a research university and a pathology professor who was friends with my major professor had a grant from a breast implant manufacturer to test for cancer risk. He did find increased cancer risk from the materials they were using but couldn't publish the results because the manufacturer paid for the study. He just said, "I hope they make changes based on what I found." That's the dark side of medical research ...negative findings are very often not allowed to be published. That was in the 80s so it looks as though the manufacturer made changes since we're not seeing increased risk ...or at least are not being told about it.

Another angle is immune disorders implants can cause in some people. I met a woman several years ago who developed autoimmune type symptoms (called Breast Implant Illness, abbreviated BII) after getting implants. She had them and the "capsules" or film of unhealthy tissue the body forms around them removed and her health gradually returned to normal. I learned from her that most doctors only remove the implants and not the unhealthy tissue film that forms around them so in those cases, removal doesn't help with women who develop BII.

Here's the link to her story

Pics of the implants and unhealthy encapsulated tissue.

 

[TeePee]

I was briefly a microbiology doctoral student at a research university and a pathology professor who was friends with my major professor had a grant from a breast implant manufacturer to test for cancer risk. He did find increased cancer risk from the materials they were using but couldn't publish the results because the manufacturer paid for the study. He just said, "I hope they make changes based on what I found." That's the dark side of medical research ...negative findings are very often not allowed to be published. That was in the 80s so it looks as though the manufacturer made changes since we're not seeing increased risk ...or at least are not being told about it.

Another angle is immune disorders implants can cause in some people. I met a woman who developed autoimmune type symptoms (called Breast Implant Illness, abbreviated BII) after getting implants. She had them and the "capsules" or film of unhealthy tissue the body forms around them removed and her health gradually returned to normal. I learned from her that most doctors only remove the implants and not the unhealthy tissue film that forms around them so in those cases, removal doesn't help with women who develop BII.

Here's the link to her story

Pics of the implants and unhealthy encapsulated tissue.

I've been told but not sure if it's true, maybe you can help me. I was told if you have implants that when you have a mammogram that it's hard to get an accurate reading because the implant can hide (for lack of a better word) possible tumors.

 

[Warrigal]

I tried to respond to your post and the site wouldn't post it saying there were only 130 words allowed in a paragraph. I narrowed my post down immensely and it still wouldn't post. I don't know what the key to posting is, when your paragraphs are less than 130 words and it still won't post it. The only reason I'm writing all this is I accidently erased part of your post when erasing mine. I'm sorry.

No need to trim the paragraph by deleting or rewriting.
All that is required is that you break the paragraph in half by pressing <ENTER>
If that doesn't work, break it up some more.