A woman describes postpartum-like fatigue, brain fog, nerve pain in her neck and back, and new headaches that were later attributed to Breast Implant Illness. Dr. Robert Whitfield notes how these neurologic symptoms vary and are often mistaken for stress or other common conditions.
So when you had the symptoms, maybe for the audience. Share like initial symptoms that you experienced so that everybody listening can understand. Like, they can creep up on you, I think, a little bit quickly. And they get assigned to. You're tired because your mom or your little ones are stressing you out or you're not sleeping.
My brain, I was like, oh, this is postpartum. My hormones are tanked. I'm fatigued. I have brain fog. But then I started getting a lot of nerve problems, problems up my neck and my back and everything I could do, like, it would not go away. I was getting in the ice. I was doing cold plunge. I was doing all the things, and I just felt like nothing was improving. But I also think a lot of the BII symptoms I didn't even realize I had until I came to you and I had a conversation with you.
Yeah, I think it's challenging. So we should inventory them. I know I've done this on a lot of shows of guested on and shows that we've had, but there are so many symptoms, and I never know which one's going to resonate with someone. But that gives you brain fog. Having teenagers. And then other symptoms that are neurologic are like headache. And you probably had neck pain a lot. And you're describing nerve pain in the neck.
Going up to my head. I never got headaches before. So that was kind of a red flag for me. All that went through my head, all of it.
I mean, that's what scares the crap out of people.
Yeah. And it started after my second baby, after my last child. And so I was thinking, oh, I have postpartum anxiety. But it was a physical manifestation of what was happening inside my body, my toxicity and my implants. And I have not had scalp pain and nerve pain since my implants are out.
