A first-person account in a YouTube short describing the speaker’s experience with breast implants. The speaker reports being bullied for having a small chest, saving to get implants at age 18 (mentions 2004), gaining confidence from them, later developing multiple health problems (migraines, swollen hands, yellow eyes, recurrent UTIs), discovering "breast implant illness" on social media/Google in 2019, and deciding the same day to have the implants removed (speaker states they "literally decided the day I learned about it").
They decided the same day to remove (explant) their breast implants.
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So I was teased in school for.
Being flat chested just to give you like a little background information. And I saved every penny I could to turn 18 and be able to afford a breast implant surgery at the time. And that was in 2004.
As soon as I turned 18, I found a doctor in my city and.
Got my first set of implants.
And it really did give me the.
Confidence that I was looking for. And you know, being young and in a vulnerable age in middle school is when I started to get bullied. And I'm almost 40 and I still to this day can remember when this.
Child came up to me and literally.
Was like, tapped me on the shoulder at lunch and was like, I just want to let you know that you're as flat as an ironing board.
And walked away. I was minding my own business with my girlfriends and I remember just like looking at them and being like, am I really that flat? And like, of course I was.
I really was. I was so skinny my entire life until kids and, you know, it just, it really stuck with me. And so, yeah, when I, when I turned 18, I got these boobs and I felt amazing and I felt confident.
And then, yeah, so I was going to downsize and I remember putting on.
Social media that I was, you know, tired of these big boobs. I'm going to downsize a little bit.
And somebody had asked me, have you.
Heard of breast implant illness? And I was like, no, I haven't actually. So of course I went to Google and searched it and all of these symptoms that were listed and mind you, this was 2019, so I'm almost at six years now post explant. But then this was all still kind of new, at least on social media.
And I looked at these symptoms and I'm like, oh my God, I'm experiencing all of these symptoms. And I didn't even know that like.
This was an issue.
I just thought, here I am, 33 or 34 and this must just be.
What it's like aging.
I had constant migraines, I had constant.
Headaches, my hands were swollen, my eyes.
Were yellow, had constant UTIs.
I was on medication for UTIs all the time.
And I'm thinking, what is going on with my body? But I, it wasn't debilitating enough in.
My mind that I thought that there was something wrong.
And after I read everything, including the.
Urinary tract infections being associated with breast implant illness, I was like, I'm removing my boobs. I literally decided the day I learned about it that I'M removing them, and.
