BREAST IMPLANT ILLNESS
In recent years, an unsettling number of women who’ve undergone breast augmentation surgery with breast implants have requested either revision breast augmentation surgery or a complete extraction of their implants due to unbearable symptoms of Breast Implant Illness. A once relatively unknown, scary side effect of breast implants has finally begun to gain some awareness within the medical and cosmetic surgery communities, thanks to affected women coming forward and speaking out about their sudden, inexplicable symptoms.
Symptoms of Breast Implant Illness
While the causes of BII still remain a medical mystery, lacking definitive clarification from the cosmetic surgery community, women who’ve experienced the strange disorder all seem to report one or more of the following symptoms:
• Joint and/or muscle pain
• Chronic lethargy/lack of energy
• Memory loss/inability to focus
• Breathing issues
• Insomnia/sleep disturbance
• Inexplicable skin rashes/irritations
• Anxiety/depression
• Dry mouth
• Headaches/migraines
• Hair loss
• GI tract complications
