A woman has described how she wept after she saw her ruptured PIP implant for the first time.
Jenny Brown had her implants removed after she discovered one of them had ruptured following a scan.
The 41-year-old, from Edinburgh, displayed the broken, yellowing prosthetic to the media and urged other women to come forward to have theirs checked.
She said she had been living "a complete nightmare" since she first heard about problems with PIP implants. Specialists found lumps under her right arm and a scan confirmed that the right implant had ruptured and there was silicon in the lymph nodes. She had the implants removed last week.
"When I found out about the rupture I was just terrified. I'm so relieved to have them out, especially when I saw how damaged these implants were. When I saw my ruptured implant for the first time, I just cried," she said.
"I took them home, I just remember carrying the boxes into the house. I didn't look at them right after the procedure, but that evening I had a look. I was quite upset. I couldn't believe that was inside me. It wasn't nice.
"The left one looks intact and it's the colour you would expect it to be, although I noticed on top of it it looks almost like it's sweating - I didn't think it was meant to do that. The right one, it's almost as if somebody has slashed it and all the stuff is coming out - and the gel inside it is just breaking up. There were bits falling off it.
"I was quite shocked when I saw the state of my right implant. I was told in my initial consultation that my implants were fine. I think it very important we all get these scans done as soon as possible. I was very upset and quite shocked. It's a mess. There were parts of jelly breaking off it as well as I thought: 'Where else has this stuff gone?'"
Ms Brown is a campaigner with the PIP Implants Scotland campaign group, which includes women who have health problems because of the implants, and is calling on the Scottish Government to set up a public inquiry into the issue.
As many as 4,000 women in Scotland may have had breast implants made by a company which used non-medical grade silicone intended for use in mattresses. Across the UK, about 40,000 women received the implants, manufactured by now-closed French company Poly Implant Prostheses (PIP), which were filled with non-medical grade silicone intended for use in mattresses.
