women's implant implant falls out!!

Lauren Yardley had always dreamed of having a more curvaceous figure.

So at 25, and tired of her ‘boyish’ shape, she decided to buy what Mother Nature had not given her.

She paid almost £4,000 for a breast implant operation, increasing her A-cup size breasts to DD.

But to her horror, just two months after the surgery, her body started to reject one of the implants.

Weeks later, it actually started protruding from her chest and came through the skin.

Now the nursery worker wants to warn women of the potential pitfalls of cosmetic surgery.

‘I couldn’t believe it when the implant started coming out of my breast,’ she recalled.

‘At first it was like a blister, but then over the next week it started to come out more and more.

‘I did not feel too much pain, just discomfort.

The doctors at the hospital said they had never seen anything like it – they couldn’t believe I was not in septic shock.

I feel very lucky, it could have been a lot worse.’

Miss Yardley, from Coventry, paid £3,750 at a private clinic for breast implants in September 2009.

Soon after the surgery, her right breast became hard and lumpy.
Doctors diagnosed capsular contracture, a common complication in implant surgery, in which the body forms a capsule of scar tissue around the implant.

It is a natural process and usually settles. In Miss Yardley’s case, however, the scar tissue tightened around the implant so much that it started squeezing it out of her body.

She paid another £850 for surgeons to replace the implant.

But two months later she was rushed to A&E at Coventry University Hospital when the implant started protruding from her breast.

After checks, she was transferred back to the Tonic Cosmetic Surgery clinic in Nottingham where surgeons safely removed the rejected implant.

Then came the worst part of her ordeal. She had to wait seven months for her body to heal, with one breast totally flat and the other still DD before doctors could replace the implant again. She also had to pay another £1,000.

‘The most horrific thing was having only one breast for seven months,’ she said.

‘I was booked to go on holiday to Tenerife for two weeks so I had to pad out my bra so people would not notice.

When I booked the operation they told me it was common for the body to reject implants – but I had no idea this could happen.

‘People always ask me if I would have implants again after all I have been through but I always say yes. I don’t regret it at all.

But it has cost me a fortune to have all the follow-up operations.’

A spokesman for Tonic Cosmetic Surgery said: ‘Most women who have breast implants will experience some level of capsular contracture. Lauren’s is probably one of the worst cases we have seen.’

Soon after the surgery, her right breast became hard and lumpy.
Doctors diagnosed capsular contracture, a common complication in implant surgery, in which the body forms a capsule of scar tissue around the implant.

It is a natural process and usually settles. In Miss Yardley’s case, however, the scar tissue tightened around the implant so much that it started squeezing it out of her body.

She paid another £850 for surgeons to replace the implant.

But two months later she was rushed to A&E at Coventry University Hospital when the implant started protruding from her breast.

After checks, she was transferred back to the Tonic Cosmetic Surgery clinic in Nottingham where surgeons safely removed the rejected implant.