A patient advocate describes the relief women feel when doctors finally acknowledge their symptoms might be linked to breast implants. Many were dismissed or gaslit before, and validation from a clinician lifts an enormous emotional weight.
I have to say that, for me, the most emotional part of being in the room, as a patient advocate and as being someone who has sat on that same table and, you know, bared my soul to a surgeon saying, can you help me? Is when women sit there and they are. They want to say, I think it's my breast implants causing these issues. And it takes every bit of courage and strength for them to say that, because the other doctors, they have said that to have told them, there's no proof of that. You need to get therapy. Like, all of these things, they have been gas lit, and they have been, in my opinion, just. It's. It's almost like just psychological abuse when someone's saying, hey, I live in this body, and I've done this research, and I have these symptoms, and this is something that's lining up to not even listen to them. So when they're able to say that. And he goes, yes, absolutely. My BII patients have these things. Most of them break down and are just like. You just see all of this weight comes off of them, and they go, I knew I wasn't crazy. Yeah.
