Anne Ziegenhorn says they are frighteningly accurate.If Ziegenhorn had known the price she'd pay for beauty, she would have run the other way. For years, she dealt with sores that would not heal. She went to doctor after doctor and faced diagnosis after diagnosis. And then you add the mold to it that we had, and then you've got two illnesses going on. Ziegenhorn said, "I felt like that was it, I was gonna die, and the doctors were gonna let me die. Local woman warns of the dangers of breast implants 
 
 A Shalimar woman has a warning for them. She was a stranger, but her symptoms were all too familiar to Paula. "Channel 3 called the FDA to see if they're getting any reports of illnesses from mold in saline implants or from the silicone shells. Paula's implants were removed in a procedure called an explant. She says some patients also have detoxification problems, that make them particularly sensitive to the silicone shells of the implants. Her thinking was so cloudy she thought she might have Alzheimer's. "The diagnosis that Anne believes saved her life came from Dr. Susan Kolb, author of "The Naked Truth About Breast Implants." Kolb says she's seeing lots of women with mold in their saline implants, often from defective valves. They've also started a group called The Implant Truth Survivors Committee, with the goal of connecting women who have this condition and providing funds to women who do not have the finances to pay for an explant procedure. Dr. Kolb said, "My experience in doing this for thirty years is that eventually everybody will become ill from their breast implants, unless they die sooner from something else."Dr. As far as finances, Kolb says women need to make sure they are financially prepared to not only pay for the surgery, but upkeep on the implants. But she believes for safety, women need to get their implants replaced every eight to fifteen years. To see more about her book, "The Naked Truth About Breast Implants," click here.
– In 2011, Anne Ziegenhorn of Florida began to gain weight inexplicably. Normally healthy, the mother of two soon began suffering from burning pain, vision loss, and cloudy thinking and had sores all over her body. She writes that she was unable to talk for 8 months, instead texting and writing on a dry-erase board. She saw many doctors, certain that their diagnoses of lupus, arthritis, and thyroid problems must be wrong. Then she saw Dr. Susan Kolb, author of The Naked Truth About Breast Implants, who has implants herself and who suggested mold might be an issue. Sure enough, as soon as Ziegenhorn's saline breast implants were removed, her symptoms vanished. Wear TV reports Ziegenhorn keeps a video on her phone that shows what was once in her body: a mold-covered implant. (She believes her implant was leaking "moldy fluid" into her system for years.) She and another woman from Kentucky, Paula Blade, have teamed up to spread the word, reports WPSD Local 6. Blade's tale is a similar one, and she says that when her removed implants were tested, the implants' valve was found to be faulty, the "filling fluid [was] grossly contaminated," and there were signs of mold. Dr. Kolb believes the mold can often be traced to defective valves (saline implants are put into the body deflated, and the saline is then inserted via the valve). While an FDA spokesman tells Wear TV that he's not aware of similar complaints being filed by women with moldy implants, he does note that most women will eventually need theirs replaced. Dr. Kolb, however, says she's treated thousands of patients with "saline biotoxin illness" and feels strongly that patients should have them changed every eight to 15 years. (This celeb had her saline implants removed due in part to health concerns.)