I need to get something off my chest

Well out actually. After nearly 7 years with breast implants I’ve decided to have them taken out.

Every person has a right to do what they want with their body. I know many women who haven’t had any issues with their implants but I believe I’m one of the statistics who experiences symptoms classed as Breast Implant Illness.

BII is a term that some doctors use to refer to a wide range of symptoms that can develop after undergoing reconstruction or cosmetic augmentation with breast implants. Because although that hundreds of thousands of women around the world agree it is a very real medical issue, BII is not currently a recognised medical condition in terms of diagnosis.

Proposed causes of BII are the body’s inflammatory reaction to a foreign object or specific components of breast implants such as silicone, neurotoxins, heavy metals, and carcinogens.

This can result in toxicity, immune, autoimmune, neurological, endocrine, and metabolic dysfunction.

Studying nutrition and gut health I learnt about plastic in bottles and take-away containers leaching into liquid and food when heated, acting as endocrine (hormone) and gut disruptors. Until I was ready to the see that plastic implants constantly heated at 37 degrees in my body might be affecting my health, I wasn’t going to connect the dots.

My constant exhaustion should have healed when I drastically changed from a DJ lifestyle in 2018 but it hasn’t. Life with DDs was fun and suited some chapters in my life but with this new knowledge and where I’m at now, it doesn’t feel right advocating natural health with implants. For me perfect boobs came at the price of: my period stopping for 4 years, chronic fatigue, adrenal fatigue, joint pain (feels like arthritis in my hips), sensitivity to light, brain fog, temperature intolerance, dry scalp, inflammation and what I and so many other women describe as living with a constant low-level hangover.

Re-reading Eckhart Tolle’s book The Power of Now has crystallised “nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disillusionments before you realize that truth”. It took having implants put in and now coming out to accept my own breasts. Finally I understand that my external appearance doesn’t mean anything. The truth is that fake boobs haven’t made me fundamentally happier. Still, this was the experience I needed to burn away ego, so I don’t regret anything.

I’m posting this publicly to potentially prevent another person from being one of the unlucky ones who gets sick. I will be completely honest and transparent with my results leading up to and after surgery. I plan to use all my nutrition knowledge to support a speedy recovery.  

In one of the many Facebook support groups that are all over the world Breast Implant Illness and Healing there are over 124 thousand women reporting a range of symptoms. If this is something that interests you or you are considering getting breast implants it’s worth looking into.

 64 days until xplant.