EXPLANT/Benilli Lift - 34 Yr Old Ruptured Silicone Implants Getting the Boot! - Dallas, TX

I continue to absolutely love my choice to explant! Absolutely no regrets. Only pain was when I carried a heavy laundry basket once, a few sharp pains throughout the night, but they have resided. Daily I see improvements in my health. Still sleeping so soundly like never before, lungs, sinuses clear. I am grateful! I am so happy to share with you all, to encourage you that things WILL IMPROVE AFTER EXPLANT, and I have definite proof! I had a "good" size thick nodule/tumor on my inner thigh that I have had solidly for several years. My doctor called it a benign tumor. It never went down in size, and was continuing to grow and grow. I was considering having it removed, it was so noticeable and who wants a tumor in your body? Well my breast explanting friends!, it has almost completely disappeared overnight a few weeks after explanting! Only a fraction of it remains. I believe as my body continues to detox itself, it will dissolve completely! That is solid proof to me, that my body was reacting to the toxic silicone/ruptured implants in an inflammatory way, and was trying to get my attention to address it. Our bodies are so wonderfully made, if we would only pay attention to them more! So that was super encouraging to me! Over the past few weeks, I realized that while I am improving in many areas, I was also flaring in inflammation on and off for several weeks (swollen joints in my hands and feet, achiness, NEW unusual flares, nodules deep in the palm of my hands and base of fingers, extreme fatigue at times, etc...) My chest broke out after surgery, and is still broken out, but healing too. So weird, but I am realizing my body is in the process of releasing toxins and inflammation that my body has had to hold onto for years, so it will take a little bit of time to process its way out of my body, probably in doses and months. Today, I am good, no new nodules or flares, just fatigue. I am looking into natural ways to help facilitate health, healing, detoxing naturally, safely and as quick as possible. Please share if you have helpful healthy tips!

Below I have copied a list I came across that compiles common symptoms of breast implant illnesses. I found it educationally, and I hope it helps, so you can be aware of what your body may be telling you too. It's sobering how many of these same symptoms I have experienced also over the last 34 years of my life, as have many I have seen here on this site.

So Dear ladies, it's time to regain/get our health and lives back without having to have these symptoms/illnesses be a part of our lives any more, or minimally to the degree of influence they have in the past. Time to shut the door on these illnesses. Remove the implants, and remove the permission and access of these symptoms to your future! Explanting is one of the best expressions and choices of loving yourself!!!

FATIGUE OR CHRONIC FATIGUE
COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION (BRAIN FOG, DIFFICULTY CONCENTRATING, MEMORY LOSS)
MUSCLE PAIN AND WEAKNESS, JOINT PAIN
HAIR LOSS, DRY SKIN AND HAIR
POOR SLEEP AND INSOMNIA
DRY EYES, DECLINE IN VISION, VISION DISTURBANCES
HYPO/HYPER THYROID SYMPTOMS
HYPO/HYPER ADRENAL SYMPTOMS
ESTROGEN/PROGESTERONE IMBALANCE OR DIMINISHING HORMONES
SLOW HEALING OF CUTS AND SCRAPES, EASY BRUISING
THROAT CLEARING, COUGH, DIFFICULTY SWALLOWING, CHOKING, REFLUX
VERTIGO
GASTROINTESTINAL AND DIGESTIVE ISSUES
FEVERS, NIGHT SWEATS, INTOLERANT TO HEAT
NEW AND PERSISTENT BACTERIAL AND VIRAL INFECTIONS
SLOW CLEARING OF COMMON COLDS AND FLUES
FUNGAL INFECTIONS, YEAST INFECTIONS, CANDIDA, SINUS INFECTIONS
SKIN RASHES
EAR RINGING
SUDDEN FOOD INTOLERANCE AND ALLERGIES
HEADACHES
SLOW MUSCLE RECOVERY AFTER ACTIVITY
HEART PALPITATIONS, CHANGES IN NORMAL HEART RATE OR HEART PAIN
SORE AND ACHING JOINTS OF SHOULDERS, HIPS, BACKBONE, HANDS AND FEET
SWOLLEN AND TENDER LYMPH NODES IN BREAST AREA, UNDERARM, THROAT, NECK, GROIN
BOUTS OF DEHYDRATION FOR NO REASON
FREQUENT URINATION
NUMBNESS/TINGLING SENSATIONS IN UPPER AND LOWER LIMBS
COLD AND DISCOLORED LIMBS, HANDS AND FEET
GENERAL CHEST DISCOMFORT SHORTNESS OF BREATH
PAIN AND OR BURNING SENSATION AROUND IMPLANT AND OR UNDERARM
LIVER AND KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION
CRAMPING
TOXIC SHOCK SYMPTOMS
ANXIETY, DEPRESSION AND PANIC ATTACKS
SYMPTOM OF OR DIAGNOSIS OF FIBROMYALGIA
SYMPTOMS OF OR DIAGNOSIS OF LYME DISEASE
SYMPTOMS OF OR DIAGNOSIS OF AUTO-IMMUNE DISEASES SUCH AS; RAYNAUD’S SYNDROME, HASHIMOTO’S THYROIDITIS, RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS, SCLERODERMA, LUPUS, NONSPECIFIC CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE, MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
SYMPTOMS OF OR DIAGNOSIS OF ALCL LYMPHOMA

I have to say overall post surgery was not much pain, more like daily tenderness. Only pain, was if I did too much, like trying on new bras at 2.5-3 weeks out. Next day was ouchy! At the 3 weeks mark, when released to go about business as normal, I started out with a light load of laundry (washed new bras, underwear, and two t-shirts, in a light weight mesh laundry holder.) My, oh my! I felt like I really had pulled a muscle, maybe even tore it. I had more pain with chest muscle pain then surgery itself! Fortunately, it only lasted a day or so. I was also glad for this site, as I read someone else's review that at the 3 weeks mark she was experiencing more pain then anytime earlier too, and her doctor told her it's normal, that the nerves are reattaching themselves to the wall and waking up and thatsee not a bad thing, the pain will pass and it's a good step in healing. I felt reassured I didn't do something to harm myself. It did pass, along with some odd pains throughout joints (detoxing, inflammation flaring, then completely leaving my body!) and I am now I am feeling GOOD, thank God!!! I feel really good ladies, and just want to say at 3.5 weeks post surgery, I am LOVING being on Explant Island, thus the tropical floral picture for everyone to enjoy! I am one relieved, happy girl! Explanting was one the best decisions I have ever made. It really does celebrates and revitalizes life!, it celebrates me!, and it celebrates you (all of us)!!!!!!!! Sending love and hugs to all! Xxxxx

The day of surgery, I was good with no additional medication other than over the counter Tylenol that evening. I did immediately start taking Arnica Montana 30x in recovery room. I ordered it from VitaMedica. (They have a Recovery Support program which was two weeks supplements before surgery, and two weeks after surgery to help promote skin tissue healing. The Arnica Monana 30x helped me tremendously with swelling and inflammation. I really didn't swell at all! I did bruise pretty good because I ended up having a vein tethered to the Calification and it got cut in process of explant. My Doctor said I really made him work hard because they had a hard time stopping it. See picture. Wasn't Dr'S fault as not much he could do in that circumstance. The next day, I got my drains out. I did take one prescribed Tylenol 3 because I had heard getting drains out can be unpleasant, but it was over so quickly and didn't hurt, just slightly, so I probably didn't need to take it. I took an occasional regular Tylenol the first 48 hours on and off, and that was it! My bruise cleared up within two weeks. I rested/slept tons first week and followed doctors instructions to a tee, and had very little pain. See picture. Most pain was right side near vein.