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Second Oldham mum’s PIP-surgery nightmare
Reporter: HELEN KORN
Date online: 01 February 2012
‘I feel just like a ticking time bomb’
A MUM-OF-THREE says she feels like a ticking time bomb because her PIP breast implants may be leaking.
Rebecca Searson (31) had implants put in by the Harley Medical Group in 2005 because she felt depressed about her self-image after having her children.
But she now joins thousands of women who fear that their implants may be leaking while the clinic refuses to pay for a replacement.
The Greenacres mum wants to tell other women that they don’t have to suffer in silence. She is due to appear on “The Jeremy Kyle Show” to discuss the issue. Rebecca is distressed that she has some of the reported symptoms including agonising back ache and burning sensations in her chest and abdomen.
But Rebecca can only have the implants removed if she can prove they have actually ruptured by having a private scan.
She said: “I was given these lifetime guarantees — and now they say they didn’t know they were potentially toxic. If that is proven, I’ll have no choice but to have them out but I will be disfigured. It hasn’t even been proved they are not combustible, which is outrageous.”
Rebecca said that her own GP won’t refer her for a scan so she is forced to find £300 to pay for one she can’t afford.
She added: “I am in a mess. It’s really distressing and I can’t sleep. Financially, it simply isn’t an option — the clinic should pay.
“It’s not nice to broadcast my situation but there are others suffering in silence. I won’t take this lying down we can push it until we get 100 per cent satisfaction. Whether the surgery is cosmetic or reconstructive, it shouldn’t matter — we’re all in the same boat.”
The Harley Medical Group claims replacing the banned implants would put the company out of business and says the Government must accept “moral responsibility” for replacing them as they had been approved by regulators.
Around 50 women gathered on Saturday outside two private clinics — Surgicare and Transform Pines in Manchester — to demand that the clinics pay for their implants, which were banned in 2010 — to be removed and replaced.
Comments
Amazing how she can manage to afford somewhere in the redion of £5000 when it's her looks she's buying, but when it's her health she can't manage a lowly £300.
As for the implants being combustible is she worried that her boobs might catch fire? Amazing!
Basically you paid to have it done don't ask me to pay to sort the mess you're in, you should have a solicitors so let them deal with it!
Whilst I sympathise with these women, I do not think the NHS should pick up the bill for removing the implants. These ladies chose to introduce foreign bodies into their own bodies. It was for purely cosmetic purposes so they should sue the clinics who put the implants in in the first place. There are more important things for the NHS to spend money on than peoples vanity.
How on earth can they NOT put right what is now proved clearly something very wrong.....
Maybe she can use her TV appearance fee to fund a scsn?
No sympathy .She found money to have the implants,now she can find money to have them removed.
As with the other story in the Chronicle, this woman is only saying the implants MAY be leaking but without any proof that they are. I wonder if she would agree to having the operation done on the proviso that if it was discovered there was no leak then she would pay all the money for the check-up ???
If the women are refused help on the back of it being their own fault, should the NHS stop treating people who drink or smoke and create their own illnesses? Tax will have been paid on the implants and the process of fitting them.
I wonder if they'll be content for the implants to just be removed or if they'll be wanting other chemical filled sacks put in their place???? The latter I expect.
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If the Harley Medical Group is put out of business, then so be it. I mean, didn’t any alarm bells start ringing, at the much cheaper cost of these implants.
By shaun mcgrath @ 01/02/2012 16:17:19