Excerpt from a YouTube video in which a patient discusses postpartum fatigue, brain fog, and persistent nerve pain that did not respond to self-care; after planning and ultimately having breast implant explant surgery, she reports feeling better and notes that many breast implant illness (BII) symptoms only became clear after discussing them with the clinician.
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 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 of the things, and I just felt like nothing was improving. And I had already talked to you around this time, and I knew that we were doing surgery, but it was, you know, eight months out, and. And so it was just getting to the point of having my explant. And I knew that I would feel better, which I have. 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.
