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Originally Posted by Undecided
Can someone NICELY explain to me how you develop PN after ten years? A few of you ladies said that your problems started ten years after you had your implants. Well if nerves get severed during this surgery they will regenerate. So I don't understand why after ten years people get PN? The nerves should be long healed by then. I noticed some other, I think it was a gentlemen, posted something to the effect that people are getting an "attitude" on this website. I noticed this right away. People tend to give nasty comments and I thought this website was supposed to help people?
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The PN people have here, is in the feet/hands/and some full body.
The local damage potential at the breast site, is really dependent on the skill of the surgeon. (we are NOT talking about neuropathy in your breasts or adjacent areas). We are talking about a full body reaction, that is painful and hard to treat. Some people can no longer walk, and the drugs do not cure anything or get rid of all the pain. The nerves may be affected that control your stomach and
blood pressure. Neuropathy of the stomach is called gastroparesis and you can no longer eat normally. If blood pressure control
is affected you may faint unexpectedly or not be able to move around normally. (autonomic neuropathy). If it affects your eyes, it is optic neuritis and can cause blindness.
The word neuropathy means disease of nerves.
The neuropathies that may develop are toxic/autoimmune ones and as such are systemic and take time to manifest. Like I explained before some people are genetically very sensitive and have very reactive immune systems.
In these people over time, antibodies will be made which may then move on to attack the nerves causing neuropathies.
Neuropathies occur very slowly as a rule. Many years pass before significant pain or impairment can be measured.
The only exceptions to this are infectious viral infections or vaccines that induce Guillain Barre syndrome, which is acute. Neuropathies can be toxic, (from poisons like arsenic, or pesticides or solvents), metabolic (hypothyroid and diabetes), from hidden cancers (paraneoplasia), from drugs (like statins), from vitamin deficiencies (B12, thiamine B6) from autoimmune attacks, from many things.
With all due respect to you Undecided, I don't think you understand what neuropathies really are. They are complex, hard to diagnose, and treat.
The risks of breast implants are basically~~1) the not well understood reactions of the body to silicone,2) and the induction of autoimmune complexes which lead to the destruction of nerve tissue by antibodies the body makes.
We don't have in medicine the little wand thingys that you see on SciFi shows like Star Trek. No one can wave a sensor over your body and predict what will happen to you in the future, or even what is happening now, but just not yet visible.
The bare bones facts about neuropathy is that as you age, Undecided, you might get a neuropathy from any one or more of the causes I listed above, even if you DON'T get the implants. No one knows what your future holds.
The members of this board suffer daily, with pain, loss of mobility and dealing with a disease that doctors do not understand fully, and cannot treat. This is very frustrating, and I see people who are concerned about you, and don't want to see you hurt.
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