Myrl Jeffcoat wisgroup_leader@yahoo.com
10 juillet 2006 13:30
Comments to the FDA about silicone breast implants and platinum studies
Regarding the current drive to have comments submitted to the FDA about silicone breast implants, and platinum studies, Command Trust would like to get a count of how many have submitted comments to the FDA, so please email:
info@commandtrust.org and let them know that you have.
Diana Zuckerman has requested copies of letters sent to the FDA from those who wish to share them with her. Diana Zuckerman dz@center4research.org
Copy/paste this below URL to make comments directly to the FDA using the
FDA's website. . .Myrl
My comments to the FDA follow here:
July 10th 2006
Hello, my name is Myrl Jeffcoat. The purpose of my submitting comments to you regarding returning silicone gel breast implants to the marketplace, is because I view your future decisions in this regard, through the eyes of a woman, who was implanted with McGhan/3M silicone implants in December of 1984.
I was very pleased at that time with the cosmetic outcome. But in mid -1988 I began experiencing health issues which were diagnosed and tested for, and subsequently being treated for: severe daily headaches, gait problems, extremely low blood pressure and heart rhythm problems.
I also had developed an involuntary head tremor. Many of my symptoms are controlled by medication, but not the daily headaches, which I continue having to this date.
Later in that year I developed thyroid problems and will be treated for that the remainder of my life, as most all other symptoms and illnesses.
In the early ‘90s I began a severe bout with chronic fatigue and Fibromyalgia. My hair began falling out and became thin. I still have Fibromyalgia symptoms often, and the persistent daily headaches. During visits and testing with my medical professionals in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, implants were never mentioned as being a suspected cause of my health issues. If the medical community had suspicions – they never shared those suspicions with me.
In ‘92 or ‘93 I read articles written about my health symptoms and illnesses being associated with breast implants. The medical community simply doesn’t address our illnesses as being caused by breast implants. They continue to this day to be in denial of it.
In about 1994 I was seen by Dr. Eric Gershwin, of the University of California at Davis, and he classified me as a category B on the old global settlement grid. It has been approximately twelve years now that myself and nearly 440,000 women in this country have been corralled in this travesty of justice, some of us having been paid pittances from what we were originally promised; others still not being paid at all; while even more will never see a dime for pain and suffering endured.
Our medical records, sent to the MDA, are being hidden in a shroud of secrecy while cloaked in an exemption of the Freedom of Information Act. Yet, in all of that, the silicone manufacturers continue to believe they can turn a profit selling these harmful products to the women in this country and other areas of the globe.
For over 40 years there has been no FDA approval of these products. There has only been a long and endless trail of meaningless studies while manufacturers continue, with FDA’s blessing, to put human life and health at risk, while marketing these devices.
The reason for my comments today is to implore the FDA to perform the job the American taxpayers pay them to do. I request that they perform their own studies and tests on silicone implants. Especially in the area of platinum and it’s effects on the human body. I ask that you please not rely on the biased studies of manufacturers who stand to gain financially while putting human beings at risk.
Thank you!
Myrl Jeffcoat
