Silicone implants removed 06/15 My health is so improved!! It's like a miricle I am so grateful!

Hi there, well it has been just over a year since my explant surgery. I am updating my post. My health is so much improved, it is amazing! I am beyond happy! It has been a year of recovery too. I was so very ill, my life more or less spent on the couch and now I walk the dog every day, long walks that are good for the body and soul. Before the surgery, my walks were painful, slow but still rather essential for my soul. I feel like a fog has lifted and everything is brighter, the greens are greener, the birds songs now louder? I am completely off the Codine pain remover that I had been dependent on for 11 years!!!! I am so much more mobile as my Interstitial cystitis is no longer as painful as it was, thus making car travel easier. I no longer feel like my breasts will separate from my,chest and I do think that was just healing the pocket where the implants had been. My breasts look a little different but not much. I love how they look and feel, oh, they aren't perfect but whose are? and now they are mine and I love that. The whole decision to remove the implants was critical to my health improving. I believe if left in [the implants] eventually I would have died, I had so little to live for. Now I have my life back and I am so thankful.
I hope you all feel as good as I do after your explant surgery. Health and healing JSR pics to come

Finally I am posting these post operative pictures. June 2, 2015 was my surgery date so now 3 plus months later I do look a bit different. All the residual swelling is gone and I think this will be pretty much how it stays but I guess you never know for sure what may happen. If I bend forward without a bra or cami it feels like my breast are separating from my chest, weird. I assume it is because that cavity that the implants were in, has yet to fully heal. It has felt somewhat better over time and I hope that it continues to get better. It seems silly to wear a bra all the time, but it is uncomfortable if I don't. I have a bit of asymmetry but it doesn't really bother me, I think I may have had that before the surgery anyway. I have 2 rather large scars about 2 and a half inches each and a couple of small spots where the drainage tubes were placed. They will fade with time. Overall I am really happy and my health is so much improved!!! I could go on and on about that! Speaking of bras, I need to go looking for more, currently I use 2 cami bras for sleeping and I got 2 [no underwire] a couple of months ago, but they are getting a lot of use and are starting to look a bit bedraggled. Any suggestions of bras that work for us would be welcome, with no upper pole, I find that some sort of padding in the lower half of the bra helps to "lift" things a bit. I am a bit self conscious of there being a gap at the top of the bra and a nice wide side panel to hold in the under the arm stuff would be great too.
On the whole I am really happy about the whole surgery and aside from a few small concerns it was the best decision I've made in years. I am very pleased with my outcome and I have so many fears! My wish for all of you is that you feel well and healthy and that whatever decision you decide to go with works for you. Health and hugs Janette

Hi all, sorry it has been awhile since I've updated my review. This surgery was the best decision I have ever made. I feel so much more healthy since removing those toxic implants. Most of my symptoms are gone, with the exception of the Interstitial cystitis which is still symptomatic, but less painful, YEAH! I am glad of that! Perhaps removing those 35+ chemicals from my body has helped my poor damaged bladder. I'll just have to see how that all goes, but any improvement is welcome, of course.
So, my brain fog has lifted so much!, my joints don't ache, my fatigue has lessened greatly. I have yet to implement a detox program, as I first had to remove some rather old dental fillings. Once that is done [just one appointment left] I can start working on getting my system cleaned up.
A couple of things have happened since I planned the surgery, First I did not like the way my picture looked when I posted it on the website. I was too heavy, I was worried that without breasts, my rolls would overpower me. So I decided to lose weight. Thinking that any weight I lost would also contain some of the poisons in my body, so I thought that would be good too. I am down to 136lbs, and I feel a lot better about myself. It also matches my new small breasts which I am very grateful to have.
One of the main reasons that I have not been updating my reviews is that I had a loss in my family and it hit me hard. I have been working hard at overcoming the grief at the loss of my dog. He was my companion for 10 years. I had been so ill and he was always there for me. He was a crazy active and very healthy 15 or so years old. He had an accident and had broken his femur in the hip socket! We did what was right, but oh, it was tough. I still cry when I talk or think about it.
So I have had great joy and great sorrow. I am so grateful for the improvement in my health, and every day I thank all of you for your support, your reviews and pictures, all of it! But the loss of my "Buddy" has put a bit of sadness in my life too. So I will post a few pictures, and once I get started on my Detox I will update further. All the best to you all, With Thanks and Hugs J