Lane sums up his leg implant experience (scroll down a couple entries if you haven’t seen it yet) by simply saying, “My body just did not want it at all.”
The rather unpleasant photos below were taken two weeks after the implant was put in.
A day after Lane took the sutures out, the wound opened up and nearly a liter of yellowish-clear fluid poured out of the incision — the previous three nights he’d been running a high fever accompanied by heavy sweats, general ill-health, and a stiff neck. After consulting with Brian on the phone, who inserted the boobs, they agreed that taking it out was the right thing to do. Because it was the holidays, Lane’s staff weren’t around, so in a one hour DIY procedure and with his wife’s assistance he removed it. Thankfully it’s now healing well — flat chested once again — and looking much better.
It’s unclear whether this was the early stages of septic shock, or if his body was straining to reject the large piece of silicon.
However, I’d really like to emphasize that Lane is a healthy guy that’s aware of body modification issues, and Brian is an experienced and clean practitioner — even in the best of cases, things can and often do go horribly wrong. If Lane had not removed the implant when he did, he could very easily have become seriously ill or even died without emergency care. If you choose to explore the world of heavy modification, it’s your responsibility to not just find a good artist you can trust, but also to be completely aware of what you’re getting yourself into and be very in tune with your own body. I can not repeat enough that things go wrong for everyone, and it’s these cases we need to prepare for. Being prepared is what will keep them as nothing but temporary setbacks instead of permanent setbacks.
Note to self: If you’ve been feeling nauseous all day, editing ModBlog entries may not always help take your mind off it..
– Roo
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79 responses to “Lane’s Tattoo Gets Puss-Filled Death Sacks”
>>Giles.. to be fair, any body modification is on some level cosmetic
Well it depends on how you define cosmetic. The pure motivation in getting a modification and the level of acceptance from the status quo are both vastly different.
Very few people gets a labret to ‘fit in’. If they do then they will regret doing so very quickly as the tolerance from society in general will be low (although improving).
Whilst many will throw up their arms claiming the decision to increase their bust size was theirs the truth lies very deep in the way that society moulds people’s view of how their body should be. This does occur within BodMod but to a lesser degree.
One of the pure motivations behind BodMod originally included the desire to free yourself from the constraints of society’s coercive ability to tell us how we should look etc. Piercing has in it’s roots a liberating ideology where gay men and BDSM practitioners could hide their enthusiasms under their clothes knowing that those in power could not touch them. True liberation and freedom from a society determined to force it’s ideas on us.
The media in general embraces breast enlargement as it knows it helped create it. ‘It’ wants women to look the way it says (Hollywood, Magazines sell more etc).
As Shannon points out, BodMod (especially heavy mods) is a rebel movement outside of society and as such we will never see Paully Unstoppable accepted totally for who he is rather instead we get people like Louie in books such as Believe it or not.
Society WANTS us to be the freakshow it demands.
that’s such a bummer it didn’t work out, I was loving that idea!
Sad Lane’s boobs didn’t work out; I’m sure it’ll be remembered for quite a while to come, though.
I’m loving the discussion in the comments here, it’s all fascinating to read.
‘Society WANTS us to be the freakshow it demands.’ – Giles
Regardless of my views in this debate, I’ve gotta say – amen to that.
i wasn’t a huge fan of the idea in the first place, personally. but it does suck that they rejected. a LITER of fluid? hrhbbhhhllkk
So yeah… BACK ON TOPIC.
Lane’s boobies looked great.
It’s a shame, he should totally try it again with maybe trying the incision underneath aswell.
Well, if he does end up with a scar, the stories will be crazy.
“Oh, that? Yeah, that’s where I had boob implants removed from my leg.”
Not something you hear every day!
it was pretty much already been said…But I’m glad to see this posted…Kudos for posting it and kudos go to Brian for being willing to let this situation be made public, same with Lane.
As it will clearly show that even with the best of situations, problems can occur.
I’m glad to hear Lane is doing a lot better now. That could have been a very nasty situation had it not been done on someone who knew what was going on, how to treat it,etc.
>>So yeah… BACK ON TOPIC.
🙂 yes apologies for that.
On the topic of cosmetic surgery complications, i recently had a genioplasty procedure (chin implant). It was performed by arguably the most qualified and respected maxillofacial surgeons in my city. I had a reaction very similar to lanes. I was on a sizable dose of antibiotics. I rinsed every 20 minutes with salt water. Lots of pus pouring from incisions in my mouth and on my neck. Lots of horrific green bruising. And swelling to the point of being unrecognizable. Simply put, your body is smart. When you put something in it that isnt meant to be there, its coming out.
How many people do you think, Shannon, are going to take the fall for the first death in “the community” due to highly irresponsible practitioners pretending to be doctors?
Personally, I have a really big boner about the idea of a few of these motherfuckers in prison. Yes, I know, maybe I’m a little sensitive about the whole thing. But its all fun and games until someone’s kid dies, eh? And I do mean fun and games.
Of course Shannon, you’re ultimately to blame for all of this. No matter how many warnings you post, the fact is you’ve encouraged this sort of behavior thousands of times, and from the very beginning.
>>Of course Shannon, you’re ultimately to blame for all of this.
If you mean he is to blame for documenting the best and worst body modifications around the world then yes I agree, he is to blame.
If you mean he is to blame for the sloppy actions of others then NO, he isn’t at all.
“yttrx” that is ridiculous, then your saying that CNN is to blame for all the terrorist bombings for documenting and reporting on them. Give your head a shake man. Is the beetles responsible for all the deaths due to LSD for writing the song Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds? “no”. Shannon documents events, provides good information about them and always explains the risks associated with the activity. We encourage ourselves to do things. He gives us the pro’s and con’s about the activity. Shannon is in no way responsible for what I had done.
p.s. Lane I wasn’t in any way saying the reaction documented here was down to sloppy actions, I was referring to the actions of non-professionals who mess things up for the rest.
Just thought I’d best clarify that.
OUCH!!
As a body mod enthusiast, I didn’t bat an eyelash at this. Shit happens with mods (it’s happened more than once with my own) and kudos to the people that can recognize when their body has clearly told them enough is enough.
However, as a medic, this made me cringe a little. But, again, kudos to you for recognizing when your body had had enough. I don’t see any red streaks going up your leg, which means that sepsis had not yet set it, but it very easily could have.
Also, yttrx, that is easily one of the most ridiculous statements I have ever read. Yes, let’s blame Shannon for killing stupid, irresponsible people who, despite all the warnings, all the information Shannon has posted about the importance of following proper safety procedures when getting modded and all the positive press, enlightenment and understanding Shannon has brought to the body mod community at large, let’s blame him because some idiot decided to ignore all that and suffered the consequences of their very stupid actions.
Props to Lane and Brian for posting comments here and being open about what happened. I’m really impressed that everyone involved showed up to comment here, and it just makes me respect them even more. Thank you for posting this Shannon, and it is wonderful to see you (almost) back. I’m glad Lane’s healing up and I hope everything turns out fine!
so now that we’ve extablished that silicone is risky to the body im wondering:
why did lane/brian pick that material when there are other, perhaps, safer materials, except for the fact that they might feel like “real” boobs?
I don’t understand how you came to that conclusion, commonwealth. Nobody blamed the silicone as a material. Thousands of silicone implants have been done with no reaction. It is tested for long term implant use. It is used commonly in chin implants, calves, noses, pectorals, etc., by licensed cosmetic surgeons. It is likely that any foreign body could’ve given Lane the same reaction.
i just watched a documentary on breasts and one of the subjects they touched on was silicone implants. when they begin to leak they poison the body causing immune problems and possibly cancer. thats why people switched to saline implants instead.
Commonwealth – As I understand it, that’s an urban legend that’s since been debunked, and it was mostly junk science that propelled those lawsuits. Silicone breast implants are again becoming available.
While there were some rare problems, the issues that people in this community had with silicone were PRIMARILY related to issues with silicone body jewelry (not implants). Also, this is solid silicone, which is quite different from the liquid/gel in terms of how it can disperse in the body.
shannon-wow that’s really interesting. i wasnt trying to sound like a know it all i was just wondering why they material was picked instead of another save for the fact that it would feel like close to real boobs.
Its really unfortunate his implants didn’t take well, but I am happy that these types of stories get posted to keep us all in touch with the reality of the situation.
yay!….now go shoot some ink in your eye with a needle….cause that’s another great idea….
The silicone breast implants currently available are NOTHING like the ones that leaked into hundreds of thousand of women’s bodies causing numerous illnesses.
Well, thousands of women have made that claim, but as has been mentioned many times before in these comments, it’s junk science and has been thoroughly disproved by many studies. Plenty of women have got ugly scarred up breasts and similarly unpleasant results from breast implants, but there’s no evidence suggesting that “hundreds of thousands of women” got “numerous illnesses”.
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_implant_controversy
that looks like a nasty infection to me!
Wow, the medical ignorance being spit out here is really quite funny!
You guys – even the medic – don’t even know the definition of “sepsis”. It doesn’t have anything to do with “red streaks” – it means that a local infection has spread into the bloodstream. Often that is accompanied by fever, chills, sweats, and eventually can lead to multi-organ failure. You guys should really stop pretending you understand medical matters, when you are clueless.
Its hard to tell from the pictures how infected the wound site was – but it did appear to be infected. Any by the way, even BACTERIAL infections CAN clear up by themselves sometimes WITHOUT antibiotics, in a healthy person. “I &D”, or Incision and Drainage is the first line treatment for a local cellulitis (infection), with a possible abscess (pocket of infected material, combined with dead white blood cells who were killed while fighting off the infection.) Just because the wound cleared up without antibiotics, doesn’t mean it wasn’t infected.
You lucked out, and I do mean luck. If you guys want to play doctor so badly, why don’t you actually LEARN something about the body, biology, surgery, etc???
PoserSmasher said what I was gonna say. I had sepsis after a prostate biopsy. I had some of the same symptoms plus chills so bad my teeth chattered. I was in the hospital for six days receiving antibiotics of different types. Some serious dodo, I’m telling you.
LOL PUSS. did NO ONE noticed this typo? Anyway I still think implants are cool, no pain no gain hahaha 🙂