2 Massachusetts Women, Thousands Nationwide Say Breast Implants Made Them Sick

BOSTON (CBS) – Just a few months ago, the idea of lacing up her sneakers and going out for a run was impossible for Meghan Sullivan. “It got to a point where I couldn’t get out of bed anymore. I was in that much pain,” she said. The single mother from Hingham says she broke out into a terrible rash, her face was swollen, she had joint pain and barely had the energy to take care of her 7-year-old son. “It was hard. It was emotional. It was scary for me. I couldn’t live normally,” she said with tears welling up in her eyes. Kaylee Silcox of Quincy was just 24 when she got sick. “I had joint pain all over, all the time. My hands and legs would start going numb,” she said. “I was being tested for MS.” But it wasn’t Multiple Sclerosis and just like Meghan, Kaylee couldn’t get any answers from her doctors. She too started to cry when she described the frustration of not knowing what was wrong with her. “You feel so alone,” she said. Kaylee Silcox (Courtesy image) But that all changed when both women, who had saline breast implants, discovered a Facebook group with thousands of women all suffering from what they call Breast Implant Illness. “I didn’t want to believe it was the Implants,” Meghan said. Both women say their surgeons didn’t want to believe it either, insisting something else was making them sick. Desperate for help, Kaylee traveled to Ohio last October to have her implants removed by Dr. Lu-Jean Feng, a plastic surgeon who spec...
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