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« Reply #30 on: January 06, 2012, 11:13:19 AM »

Seems that men are also affected by this and not all operations were for cosmetic reasons http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8994962/PIP-gave-faulty-silicone-implants-to-men.html
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« Reply #31 on: January 06, 2012, 10:49:11 PM »

I am amazed that you can get male implants for your buttocks and pectoral region. However I am astounded that you can get testicular implants! That's just nuts!! facepalm
 
Mind you I can get some cheap silicone in handy tubes. When cured it goes off quite hard so could be useful for certain male applications for the older gentleman!
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« Reply #32 on: January 06, 2012, 10:56:32 PM »

So Ki Lo Watt its you who send me those emails?  hysteria
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« Reply #33 on: January 07, 2012, 07:47:51 AM »

However I am astounded that you can get testicular implants! That's just nuts!! facepalm

They're usually for people who have had to have one (or two) removed due to cancer or other illnesses but still want to appear vaguely normal. Sounds pretty reasonable to me.
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« Reply #34 on: January 07, 2012, 08:03:39 PM »

However I am astounded that you can get testicular implants! That's just nuts!! facepalm

They're usually for people who have had to have one (or two) removed due to cancer or other illnesses but still want to appear vaguely normal. Sounds pretty reasonable to me.

(I think he was joking... *nuts*)

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« Reply #35 on: January 09, 2012, 12:03:04 AM »

So the implants were withdrawn due to 'abnormally high rupture rates'?! Given the devastating, irreversible and life-threatening effects of an implant rupture, one wonders what an 'acceptable' rupture rate is
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« Reply #36 on: January 09, 2012, 01:50:42 AM »

'The same as all the others' I imagine. I thought the whole point about silicone in this application was that it wasn't particularly bad for you being essentially biologically inert, so how is it 'life threatening'?
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« Reply #37 on: January 09, 2012, 02:11:51 AM »

The problem with silicone is that the stuff eventually leaks out - especially when it ruptures, but to a lesser extent due to porosity. This results in silicone embolism which is particularly nasty and mostly fatal. Here are some links for silicone embolism (they mostly refer to injected silicone, but the symptoms and diagnosis is pretty much the same. These are just the first two references I found on google, not selected for any great merit:

http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/content/127/6/2276.full
http://www.rsna.org/rsna/media/pr2006-2/illicit_cosmetic-2.cfm

But if you want the full details in all its gory detail try this one - http://www.implanttruth.jshood.com/article.html - I would have assumed that a saline-filled silicone implant would be rather safer, but changed my mind when I read this one. Girls...and boys...be warned.
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« Reply #38 on: January 12, 2012, 03:11:19 PM »

There was a woman on the radio explaning how since she lives on benefits it will cost too much for her to have them removed so the NHS should do it - though she admitted she was on benefits when she had them put in and they were purely cosmetic, not because of a mastectomy or anything .

So next time you see that whopping deduction on your payslip for tax/NI - money that you could have spent on your own family, (or if self employed like me you get that tax bill), but hear at the same time that services are being cut because we have not got enough money - at least you know who and what sort of thing that does get spent on instead of your own family.   Angry
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