Breast Implants and Fibromyalgia - Fibromyalgia Message Board

Morficarts · 02-08-2002, 03:09 AM

Hi Gang: As you might have guessed I'm a victim of the Dow Corning cover up. I had breast Cancer at the age of 29 and silicone/saline implants put in shortly there after. Some years later I had one implant rupture and the shell disolved into my body. I've been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia among other autoimmune health problems. I also just had a full blown attack of it and have been on pain pills for a week. I'm a newbie to all of this, does anyone have any advice? Thanks for your help! Terry

rhody · 02-08-2002, 11:31 AM

I'm sure you've seen a lot of my writings. What I did was explore natural healing, with improved diet and herbs etc. If you have any questions or would like more information, please let me know.

korken · 02-08-2002, 02:49 PM

Sorry to hear about the rupture. Welcome.
There are a lot of good links posted just click on them when in them. Titles New To Board...... and ......IN A NUT SHELL and One on rule out tests need to be done. Research is the key to understanding this monsterous thing better. You have to take chargeof your health i that you need to research an know as much as the doctors. Many don't really know what hey re doing.ecuse they aren'tan FMS pecialist or board certified in FMS. Watch out for snake oil treatments. There are a lot out there. It took years to find a doctor that really knew what it was. We have been seeing A board certified FMS, CFS, Infectious disease pain managmnt specialist. We say if you had cancer you wouldnt go to someone who wasn't a board certified specialist. So to with FMS. We tried so many docs that really had no clue. We found him on the Co-Cure site in the posts mentioned above New to Board.

There is no cure but, there are remission states that can last years.

Good luck in your research and welcome!

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Take care ~Kim & Gary~

rhody · 02-08-2002, 07:08 PM

I wanted to clarify, for some people there is a cure of fibromyalgia symptoms, especially for those poisoned by toxins. It took years for me to understand this, from personal experience. At one time I was heavily involved with herbs.

I know a lot about herbal therapy. When I consumed too much of these herbal teas I got a rash, especially in the area of pain. Herbal therapy healing is slow, but can work for some in cleaning up toxins. This is an area that Western medicine knows very little about. It requires lots of research.

My experiments helped me learn what herbs worked best and in what amounts. I don't recommend that people self-treat themselves, but this is the path I took until I figured it out. At times my experiments back-fired and I got very sick - but the end result is that I'm well today.

If you can find a doctor that understands this, and can help you clean up these toxins, that would be great. Sorry to hear about the rupture. I hope that you feel better....

Morficarts · 02-10-2002, 03:43 AM

Hi Kim, Gary and Rhody, Thanks for replying and for the advice. I'm very proactive in my health care. I learned I had to be when I had cancer. When it came to the silicone problem it took me 10 years to get the proper help. I got the same brush off as I'm sure you have too, from Doctors who just don't want to believe that we're sick. Or they did what I call bandaid medicine. treating the symptoms but not going to the root of the problem. I'm am now seeing a holistic doctor who is also a MD and I'm showing signs of detoxing. I would like to compare notes with Rhody and anyone else who has found ways to ease there symptoms. I don't even know what meds I should be on. I had to go to a clinic over the weekend when the fibro hit and all I was given was codine 3's. I've slowed down and rested more and I'm back on the suppliments that I ran out of two weeks before but my hands, feet, back, neck and shoulders still ache some. BTW Rhody, I've been getting my hair tested and it shows I'm quite low in calcium and magnesium. My doctor has me on special suppliments to get those minerals back into my body again. I'm also showing signs of sensitivity to wheat, and all solivents like paint, gasoline, paint thinner etc. Plus I had yeast that just wouldn't go away. I realize that my implants had many of the same ingredients as the solvents. The saline part of my implants had fungus and this is a reaction to the the implants in my body. Is fibro also a virus of sorts or does anyone who gets fibro have some sort of toxins in their system to bring on the disease? If everyone detoxed could they get rid of the disease? Just curious. Terry