A woman spent two years researching unexplained symptoms, tried functional medicine treatments, and eventually discovered breast implant illness. She connected with other women reporting the same symptoms and had explant surgery.
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And so as I was reading more about breast implant illness, there was a time for two years that I isolated myself in my house and just did research every day because I was determined to figure out what was wrong with me. This is not going to be my life forever. Like, I can't stand it. I turned to functional medicine, functional nutrition, worked at different functional medicine doctors in Massachusetts and did all the things, IV therapy, vitamin therapy, even tried different peptide therapies and just spent two years researching. My husband would call me, hey, what are you doing? I'm six hours deep on the computer because I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with me. And so then I came across breast implant illness. I started speaking with a few different other women that I just started talking about breast implant illness and they said I've had symptoms too. I've had explant Came across different women online, started talking with them too about their experiences with their implants.