A first-person YouTube testimonial (short) about suspected breast implant illness. The speaker reports saline implants placed in 2008 and describes ~15 years wearing implants with progressive symptoms: severe brain fog, dry mouth and dry eyes starting soon after implantation, anxiety and depression, and more than 40 skin cancers treated over 15 years (one recently removed via Mohs surgery). The speaker sought consultation after recognizing implant-related illness, underwent explant surgery, reports feeling much better, and encourages others to consult clinicians if they have similar concerns.
Questions this video answers
2008
About 15 years
More than 40 skin cancers in 15 years
Mohs surgery (removed on Monday, relative to the recording)
Chapters
So I will tell you, going back to when I had them initially put in the saline implants in 2008, immediately started having symptoms, but I never would have attributed them to my breast implants. Okay, so severe brain fog. To the point, and this is really sad to say out loud, but to the point. I just thought, like, okay, I'm just, you know, I'm just not very smart. I'm just. I don't know. That was really truly what I thought. Thought in my head for so many years because I had a hard time processing things. Very slow. And I was never like that before implants. And then right after college is this brain fog set in. And it just felt like the entire time I had implants, which was 15 years, I said towards the end, when I started learning about breast implant illness, that it felt like my head was in the clouds. So is there a correlation between the 40 plus skin cancers I've had in 15 years since having breast implants, One of which I just had removed a Mohs surgery on Monday. So skin cancer, terrible, severe brain fog. Initially, dry mouth and dry eyes. Absolutely. Those two things started immediately. Anxiety and depression. Yeah. I listened to actually your podcast with Lauren Bostick and literally was just in shambles and was like, I have breast implant illness. And I called your office the next day, scheduled a consultation. So to be podcasting with you is kind of crazy. And to feel as good as I feel, I feel like you've given me my life back. I just am going to take it day by day. And I know that I'm making the right decision by. By getting the explant, and that however long this healing journey takes, which honestly is probably going to be for the rest of my life, and I'm okay with that. I'm here for it. I'm like, okay. Oh, wow. That's not been my story. And I want other women to know that if it's not their story, that they're not abnormal, that it does take time to heal. I knew that having a foreign object in my body, two of them, was causing systemic inflammation, and that I wanted them out anyways. I want them out because I really do truly believe that they're causing all of these issues. I just say, you know, I. I hate to say go for it, but I mean, that's what I said to myself. Just still do it because you're doing yourself such a service by getting them removed because they're obviously creating some sort of issues in your body. I feel like the biggest lesson that I've learned through all of this is that I'm way stronger than I ever thought I was. And I think so many women are so much stronger and have so much more courage than they give themselves credit for. And so I hope that anyone listening that even has the smallest inkling of, like, could it be just schedule a consultation and, and have the conversations, have the options put in front of you.
