Second Oldham mum’s PIP-surgery nightmare

‘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.