Humbly asking for Help to Remove Toxic Implants

Hello everyone,

This is so hard for me to do because I am not one to ask for help, but I currently find myself with literally no other recourse. About eight years ago I found myself making an ill-informed decision and allowing my vanity to make what has now become a life-threatening decision. Having my daughter at 16 changed my body so drastically which subsiquently effected my self esteem. For years I would look at myself and see a stranger looking back. That feeling along with what has become echoes of doubt from someone who claimed to love me, caused me to hate every aspect of my postpartum body. I tried desperately to regain my confidence with excersize but to no avail. Eigh years ago I found myself able to make changes that I thought would be an immediate solution to my self image issues but I was wrong. What I didn't know then that I know now is that my self love needed to come from somewhere deeper than what everyone could see. I am finially in a place where I realize this but now I find myself with health complications due to these choices made for vanity.

About 5 years ago I started having pains with one of my implants. It started as a slight discomfort but has increased slowly. Last April I found myself suffering from Dysphasia (the inability to swallow) for a week and a half. This symptom came shortly after the I received my second Covid vaccine shot so despite what the doctors have said or more accuratly not said I thought it was that. I have seen several specialist concerning this issue and no one seems to know what is causing it.

On February 23rd, I started feeling intense joint pain and a sore throat. By Friday the pain was so intense that I went to the emergency room. After spending the night in the hospital, getting x-rays, blood work and seeing a rhumatologist they were at a loss. According to the rhumatiologist my blood showed extreme joint inflammation but no cause. Test for arthritis, lupus and other auto immune disorders came back negative, but my c protien which shows joint inflammation (normally between 0 - 5) were at 28.6. There was some relief at having proof that it was not in my head but the comfort was short lived because the people that I came to get answers from had none.

I was release and told that they thought that it might be chikagunya virus, a virus passed by mosqitos in the carribean that can cause joint inflammation. I had recently returned from the Dominica Republic and figued this must be it. So now I found comfort in that. The symptoms while painful are not deadly and will resolve in a couple of weeks. So home I went to wait for the confimation that this was what I had.

The day before yesterday I received the results and I do not have chikagunya, so what the hell is wrong with me. The joint pain has not gone away. I need help with everything, getting dress, drinking water, getting in and out of bed, showering. Multiple joints in my body hurt simultanously and conrtinously. I get some moments of relief when I drink the anti inflammatory medication but the effects only last a couple of hours and my prescription will soon be finished and they will not give me a refill because it can cause kidney issue.

I started looking for answers or at lease some hypothesis as to what is happending so that I can ask the doctor the right questions and be my own advocate for my health and I came across Breast Implant Illness. My husband had mention this to me a couple of years back when I started to complain about the pain and insisted I have them removed but because of how much it cost and the fact that I was a just little uncomforatble, I dismissed it. I had gone with what I thought was the healthier option of saline as per the surgeon, so I did not think that there was any real risk in to my health. Now looking into it futher, I found that the FDA has recently aknowledged this illness and that there were so many women who have been sufferring with this for years. I started to look up the symptoms and realized that alot of the symptoms that I would exlained away as normal aging issues were listed; hairloss, anxiety, brain fog, migraines, digestive issues, hormone imbalance. Then I came accross some of the more serious issues that caused me to seek answers from a doctor; heart palpations (had to wear a heart monitor for 2 weeks because they didn't know what was wrong with my heart) dysphasia (had an ediscope and swallow test preformed as well as a goiter biopsy) and now multiple joint inflammation and auto immune disorder with no absolute cause (my body is fighting something they just don't know what). After every test all the experts have no answers as to what is causing the symptoms. Finally a possible answer.

My releif was short lived yet again when I found out that my insurance actually NO insurance will cover explantation surgry even if you can prove that the implant is causing other medical condition that are effecting your health since the original surgry was elective and there is no rupture or capsular contraction.

So here I am. Any little bit that can be donated will go directly to getting this surgry done as soon as possible. If you can not donate please share my story and the information concerning Breast Implant Illness. Force the powers that be to see that this is an acutual issue that women are suffering and should have this surgry cover. Tell any woman who is considering implants to look up all the complications that can arise and that beauty standars are flawed because beauty is anything but standard and there is nothing wrong with any inch of their body so it does not need to be changed.

Thank you fo the time you have taken to read my story and may you all continue to be blessed.