I did not mean, in any way or form to 'blast' you for any of your opinions.. far from it. I simply did not know of, or have any clue about your prior circumstances regarding how you came to your current opinions. You have been very brave and astute in the 'putting it out there'!
We all arrive here from a variety of circumstances. In my case it was the development of an auto-immune disease following an pneumonia attack that lasted months. IN the years following that, the long road to a diagnosis and subsequent therapy was a long and painful one. Never during the process nor after, was the cancer issue raised, nor was any 'cancer' testing done until the initial diagnosis of cancer. The point I mean to make here is that...testing isn't done...unless the docs beleive there IS a connection....Hindsight, being why not? and the whole IF ONLY scenario just doesn't do any good.
I can and DO think outside the box...daily. I just wish all my docs did? IF you read my plethora of posts trying to help others, as well as myself, you would learn that. I do try to find answers, even if there aren't any, if they can be found, because...in those answers, there mite be one clue for me!
As for Implants, I did heaps and heaps of research, got lots of feed back from all sorts regarding my own implant circumstances and went the way I did after all the reading to the point my mind was overcluttered with FACTS, with that heap of opinions that colored and put dimension to my OWN decision. I have stated in many posts that my implant decision was a 'practical' one...being that those few key ounces of weight in that key place was throwing my already compromised balance off soo much, that it HAD to be remedied. Please do a member search of my posts of March-July '06 and you will see what all I'd searched and went thru..
I also suggest that you use that 'search' bar at the top and look up 'Lizajane' and see that her opinons, are different from mine.. Different opinions are what make a community. What I have found tho is that your opinion appears to be formed, mine, believe it or not is not yet formed...the medical and practial jury still seems to be 'out' on the whole issue. I realize that many feel the jury is IN to one way or the other....but I'm not seeing HEAPS one way or the other, aside from what LizaJane's put forth...and definitely nothing new. I have a definite self-preservation desire to keep up on this stuff...and believe me I do! Much respect - j