Three months ago I underwent elective surgery to have my almost 26 year old saline implants removed. If you want to know why I did that please read my last two blog posts which have those details. This post is the AFTER. And boy, o boy, is it a good one!
The list of issues connected to breast implants is extensive, over 80 different things they’ve come up with so far. The following are those issues I’ve dealt with and which have gotten progressively worse over the past quarter century.
Unexplained fatigue
Brain fog / fuzzy thinking
Memory loss
Thinning hair
Dry skin and/or hair
Rapid tooth decay/gum disease/bleeding gums
Weight problems
Inflammation in face and body
Poor sleep and insomnia
Low libido
Slow healing, easily bruised
Difficulty swallowing, choking easily
Intolerant to heat and cold
Intolerant to light and sound
Growing food intolerance and allergies
Daily headaches, frequent migraines, ocular migraines
Slow muscle recovery after activity – taking days to recover
Body odor even after taking a shower
Terrible bad breath even brushing, flossing, and oil pulling
Dehydration in spite of drinking at least half my weight in ounces daily
High intolerance to alcohol
Frequent urination especially at night
Constant shortness of breath even when just sitting
Loss of focus and drive to accomplish anything
Depression
Honestly, I think the last one, the depression, came from doing everything right for my health and still experiencing all of these issues. I ate better than everyone else in my family and still felt worse. I eliminated many foods from my diet. It was almost impossible to eat anywhere but home so we stopped eating out. I was frustrated watching my family eat and know that if I even had just a little that I would pay for it later with a gigantic migraine.
It also had something to do with being a charge the hill kind of girl who always had big dreams and plans and never watched TV who changed into a person who was a solid couch potato. Who sat and stared at a screen all day because she had absolutely no energy and no drive for anything. The no drive thing was so new and I didn’t know how a person could change so much. I put it down to getting older, the terrible aftermath of adoption, and all kinds of other things but it just didn’t make sense to me. I wasn’t ME anymore. I was a shell of a person who sort of looked like me but had these almost lifeless eyes. I had no sparkle anymore. I had no energy to do anything, and I didn’t want to do anything, which was so scary. The goal setter morphed into a couch sitter. And the guilt piled on. I knew I was better than this but after trying everything I could think of with zero results the depression set in.
That was three months ago.
As I look down the above list today I feel like I’m living a true miracle. This is my list today. Three months post surgery.
ZERO.
Exactly ZERO.
YUP! Really! ZERO!
And do you know what I did today that I haven’t done in years? I ran. And it felt amazing. I ran and I could breathe. And my joints didn’t hurt. And I have woken up for three months straight without a headache. The daily morning wake-up headache I’ve had for years. GONE! I haven’t gone three months without a headache in … well … almost 26 years! Honestly I haven’t gone three days! I haven’t had the morning headache, the afternoon headache, or the evening one either. No migraine has plagued me. My gums stopped bleeding the afternoon after my surgery. A bruise on my arm that I had for four months that just would not heal was gone in two days. A sharp pain behind my left knee that kept me from going on long walks for almost a year has not reared its ugly head since I woke up from surgery.
I actually had a beer and didn’t feel like a falling down drunk. And food! I had a piece of chocolate cake for my husband’s birthday that before would have put me in a migraine coma for three days and not only did it taste completely amazing but there wasn’t even a smidgen of a headache afterwards. Heaven!
I am the “girl on fire” in her business again. Unstoppable. I have so much energy that even sitting down to type this I want to be up and walking around. TV. What’s that? That is the one thing I now have an intolerance to now – LOL. I have no time for TV anymore. I have a lot to catch up on. I honestly don’t think I’ve sat on my couch one time in the past three months.
Those implants leached poison into my body 24/7 and I can say without a doubt in my mind that they and they alone were the cause of my 20 plus symptoms. The past three months have been spent eating clean and detoxing those harmful toxins out. Every day I feel better than the day before. I sleep deep. I sleep through the night. And I’m dreaming again, something I haven’t done in years. I’m not waking up every hour to use the bathroom. Somehow my what I thought was aging bladder is healed, too!
If you or someone you know is suffering from any of these issues (the full list of symptoms can be found at www.healingbreastimplantillness.com) please consider having them removed. There is a list of recommended surgeons at the above link.
For those interested I’ve been living the Arbonne 30 clean eating/detoxification plan. It made a huge difference before my surgery – I’m sure it kept me healthier than I would have been without it – and afterwards getting those nasty poisons out of me.
I’m so grateful for my friends who went before me on their explant journey. Because of them I learned about breast implant illness and I now have my health and my life back. I will be forever grateful for that.
This is Simply My Opinion,
Kathe
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Reading about your journey after explant is extremely encouraging. I just explanted (partial capsulectomy) 2 weeks ago. I’ve already noticed my brain fog disappear, memory is much better and my face looks normal and not puffy!! I’m still dealing with morning headaches and I’m getting really discouraged. When did your headaches start to fade?
Hi Jess and congrats on your explant. It took awhile for my headaches to completely disappear. I went through a pretty comprehensive detox once I felt up to it and after that, which was pretty difficult getting all those toxins out, my headaches disappeared. I rarely get one anymore, especially that severe. Take care of yourself, getting plenty of rest, and let your body heal. Be sure you are drinking plenty of clean pure water to help flush out those toxins. I would say within three months I was feeling really good again for the first time in over 20 years. Thanks for writing. Kathe