A person's thyroid problems, sleep apnea, and hair loss reversed within three months of removing their breast implants. An endocrinologist was shocked the thyroid had fixed itself, despite tests showing hyperthyroidism and nodules before the explant.
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I had, well, looking back, it was little things that really were coming to a head. Sleep apnea for not, yeah, for years. Fatigue, the fatigue was getting worse. No energy. I went out for a walk one day and my brother and husband teased me that, well, we'll see Sarah 5 hours later. She's going for a walk, you know. And I came back in within 10 minutes and he was like, what's wrong? And I'm like, I have no energy. I couldn't make it to the end of the driveway. Um, it just— losing my hair, gaining the weight. I started having thyroid problems. I was in with endocrinologists. Um, they were running thyroid functioning tests on me. They were doing bone scans on me. They couldn't figure out really what was going on because my symptoms were more hypothyroid, but my blood work was showing hyperthyroid. I was growing nodules on my thyroid, and I had my explant in April. I saw the endocrinologist in July, and my thyroid had completely reversed. She was floored. She says, this doesn't happen. She goes, your thyroid doesn't fix itself. And my thyroid had fixed itself, or I guess