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Sunday, May 16, 2010

warning to all my female friends!!

so the past few months have been hard on me (being sherry) both physically and emotionally. despite diets and exercise, i have failed to even lose a pound in fact I've put on weight. despite, expensive facial products, and even some medication, my face has continued to break out in what I've learned is called cystic acne. its been 16 months since I've been able to look in a mirror and smile at my reflection. if you don't know or have never seen what cystic acne is, google it. It is the hardest to cure, and the most painful form of acne. I currently have a cystic pimple about the size of a quarter at the base of my chin. the only way it will go away is to go into the doctor and they have to open it up and drain it out. leaving nice little scars all over my chin, from various removals, and the lesser pimples that did manage to go away themselves. my face will be scarred until i decided to go in and have a laser surgery to remove it. i have been warned by several people with my same problem. there is no cream to help lessen cystic acne scars. there is only surgery. one lady has spent more money on scar creams and lotions then she did on her laser surgery. and then there is the depression, its not enough that i look in the mirror and see all the weight that normally is easy for me to lose, still there and in fact gaining, and despite the fact that my face looks like the moons surface, i deal with depression daily. and no pill will help either. so, lets add these together, weight gain, severe cystic acne, depression, so much more that's a bit to much information for my friends, and add all the UTI's I've had to cope with over the past 16 months, and I've learned it is all the side effect of one thing,
my implanon. i have an implant in my arm, it is my birth control, i was told its one of the best forms of birth control out there, and that its been improved to have less side effects and more protection. they lied. every women i have talked to that has ever used implanon has suffered the same side effects i have, some have had it much worse. there was one lady i met whose implanon vanished one day. she had it a little over 2 years, she checked it religiously to make sure it was still where it needed to be, one day she checked and she couldn't feel it. she went into the doctor, and he couldn't feel it, they had to do an ultra-sound. nothing, so she went to a specialist, and after multiple ultrasounds and MRI's and other various scans and surgeries, they found it, leaving behind a 4 and a half inch scar wrapping around her arm, and thousands of dollars in bills. a routine surgery that shouldn't have consisted of more then a local anaesthetic, and a scar that would hardly be noticeable left her (as she described it) looking like she'd been mauled by a bear. so my warning to all my friends out there,,,DO NOT USE IMPLANON!!!!!! the doctors make it sound so nice, so worth it, so easy and no worries has become an absolute nightmare. DO NOT USE IT! my latest worry has been trying to find someone certified to remove it. I am OK, don't worry these side effects are nothing I've never handled before. and its nice to know that as soon as i find someone then it will be gone for good. and I'll be safe using something tried and true. so just a warning.. please please please please please PLEASE!!!! do not use implanon, honestly i'd rather be pregnant....and if you know me well, you know thats a fate worse then a life a without chocolate. and i love my chocolate.