My new boobs burst!
Ilena Rose
This is not an isolated occurence, unfortunately.
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May 14 2008 by Janet Tansley, Liverpool Echo
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Janet Tansley speaks to a woman who wishes she’d never had a boob job
– and wants to warn others of the potential health risks
SUSAN Craney was desperate to get her old figure back ...
Now she would just like her life back.
For the last few years Susan, 51, has endured a painful battle to
finally have breast implants removed after they burst.
While her road to recovery is still long and troubled, Susan is glad
they are gone but now prays for her health to return.
“I feel I went in for a boob job and came out with bad health,” says
Susan.
“In the end I just wanted them taken out.”
Throughout her ordeal, however, there has been one bright light in the
darkness – Susan’s good friend, April Skinner.
“She phoned me every night, offered to come to all my hospital
appointments, and brought me flowers and chocs,” smiles Susan.
“She put everything to one side to support me. She is one-in-a-
million.”
Now she has won the chance to repay her after winning Look’s
competition to win a pamper break at the luxury Carden Park Hotel near
Chester.
Says Susan: “We’ve always said how nice it would be to get away but it
was hard to find the time – and the money.
“April has been such a good friend.”
Susan, from Knotty Ash, became depressed after childbirth and weight
loss left her unhappy with her body.
“I’m not a young girl with starry eyes,” says Susan, a mother-of-
three.
“I didn’t want to be Jordan, I just wanted to get my figure and
confidence back.”
But it wasn’t long after the operation five years ago that Susan
suspected something was wrong.
“Both breasts looked okay but I always had pain and discomfort with
the right one,” she says.
“A year later I started to get lumps under my arms. Then a large one
appeared under my right arm.”
During all this time Susan’s health began to suffer: “I had constant
flu-like symptoms. I was achy and tired, and I even started to lose my
hair. I was menopausal but I felt it was more than that.
“I was certain that something was wrong, that the silicone implants
were leaking.
“I was always into the gym and keeping fit but eventually I had to
stop going because I didn’t have the energy.
“I even had to go part-time in my job in a department store because I
just couldn’t keep up with it full-time,” she adds.
Susan repeatedly returned to the clinic where the operation had been
carried out to be told, she says, that she needn’t worry.
But Susan didn’t believe them.
Even visits to her GP proved fruitless. Susan underwent numerous
mammograms and ultrasound examinations, but none showed anything
abnormal.
It was only when she saw a new female doctor after she moved to Knotty
Ash, that the true horror was revealed.
“It was in November last year,” says Susan. “She sent me for an urgent
MRI scan which revealed the implants had burst. I was horrified.”
When Susan went back once more to the clinic they agreed to remove
them – for a fee.
They told Susan – who is now taking legal action against the clinic –
that she would be left disfigured and her chest would ‘virtually cave
in’ unless she had them replaced with alternative implants.
But when, she says, they told her the cost would rise again, Susan
says she just wanted them out.
The implants were removed just over a month ago.
“I grabbed my notes, which said both implants had badly ripped, and
when I asked to see them, they were both split.”
Susan’s chest was flat – “it had just collapsed” – but after two weeks
she started to get some shape and reckons it’s better than before the
implants.
But there are still health issues.
Susan’s lymph glands still have silicone in, she says, from the
leaking implants. While attempts could be made to remove them, she
would be left with swelling and some loss of hand control.
She continues to have ill health which she believes are associated
with what’s happened.
Now working as a make-up artist Susan is praying for the best outcome.
“I am angry that no-one listened to me, because this could have all be
sorted a long time ago.
“Now I want to get well again and get my life back.”
Susan thanks her children who helped her through and April who, she
adds, “was a tower of strength”.
She adds: “Implants are great in the right context – for cancer
patients for example – and I know people who have had them for years
without any problems.
“But I would urge young girls who look through glossy magazines
picking what size chest they want to stop and think.
“I wish to God I had never done it.”
The clinic which carried out Susan’s breast augmentation declined to
comment.
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