A woman describes six years of worsening fatigue, chronic inflammation, and depression after breast implants, which doctors treated as a mental health issue. She left her job unable to get out of bed some days before realizing the implants themselves were the problem.
About six or seven years after receiving implants.
I want to say about six or seven years after my implants I came across breast implant illness. Just doing a lot of research because it came to a point where I was just so sick every day. And I was really good at hiding it because I showed my face on social media a lot. So I was really good at hiding how I felt, hiding the weight, hiding my depression, my anxiety that started to arise just hiding all of my emotions. I would slap on a smile and show my face on social media. And so I started seeing therapists, I started seeing psychiatrists. They just wanted to put me on mood stabilizers, antidepressants and all these different things. And so as time went on I just told myself this is either how I'm going to live for the rest of my life. I'm just always going to be inflamed and sick and chronic fatigue. Some days I couldn't get out of bed. I found myself crawling out of my corporate job.
