After decades with saline breast implants, a woman discovers a manufacturer recall for lymphoma risk and gets diagnosed with mast cell activation syndrome. When she asks five doctors about removing the fibrous capsule during explant surgery, one admits he can't guarantee it and pushes new implants instead.
Why do I have so much inflammation? Why do I have MCAS now? Um, they were just like, we can't find anything wrong with you. Um, so then I started doing my research because my sister had breast cancer in 2014. And then leading after that, probably a year, I got a letter from the manufacturer saying your implants are recalled for lymphoma. Okay. So that's when I started doing my research. And in Mississippi, we do have some great doctors. And I seen several doctors, actually 5. One that I thought that I was gonna settle with, I had a second consultation with him and I'd already done some research. So I had some questions for him and I'm like, okay, when we go in and we remove these implants, are you gonna be able to get the capsule that goes with the implant? And he was like, I can't guarantee that, um, but I'll get your implants out. So he was pushing me to put new implants in, and I've had these implants in since 1998, and they were saline. But even if you do your research, saline can grow mold inside your implants.
