Women Share Terrifying Stories About Their Breast Implants — And Why They Removed Them

Added: 2026-05-09

[00:00:00]This is what breast implant illness looks like for me. I frequently get dry, itchy, and inflamed eyes. Random rashes appear over my body in symmetry all over my chest, my neck, and my arms and legs.

[00:00:12]There was nothing wrong with them.

[00:00:14]Nothing.

[00:00:15]I can't believe I'm on this app crying, but like it has been really, really hard.

[00:00:23]It's been so much pain and discomfort.

[00:00:26]Ladies, I'm going on my fourth breast surgery in less than two years. I'm emotionally exhausted. So, sit back, grab a drink, and let me tell you a little story. I first got my breasts done, 485 cc's saline, and this was probably in like 2007. One day, I literally woke up and I was like, you know what? I want them bigger and I want silicone. So, I scheduled the surgery and did that. So, I went up to 700 cc's of silicone.

[00:00:54]A few months later, I started noticing something happening to my right breast.

[00:00:58]Only the right breast, but I wasn't sure what it was. One day, my little sister was at my house and I said to her, I took my shirt off. I said, "Why did my breast look so different? Why does one look like a completely different boob?"

[00:01:10]So, she kind of touched it and looked at it and she was like, "I think you have capsular contraure on your right boob."

[00:01:16]And sure enough, that's what it was.

[00:01:19]For those of you who don't know what that is, it is your body's defense system noticing that there is something foreign in your body and it starts building like this hard tissue around it and that tissue causes the implant to be really hard and really high. So, one boob was up here and one boob was down here. So, scheduled surgery, went in to see the same surgeon, had a I believe it's called a capsuletomy. I may be saying that wrong. Um, and everything was fine. So I thought a few months later I noticed it happened again. Same breast. So this time I'm like, "Okay, let's do something different." That different thing that I did was just found a new surgeon. I went to a surgeon in Tampa and she came up with this whole plan and she was going to put some mesh in and do all of these things. And yeah, I had surgery again in December 2022.

[00:02:12]This time I went to 650 instead of 700 cc's.

[00:02:16]I was in Atlanta in May. This was what, five or six months after my surgery. And I was asleep with no bra on. And when I woke up, the right breast implant had completely flipped. And you could tell it just looked so weird. The surgeon by way of pictures did confirm that the implant actually did flip. And I got gave advice on how I could flip it back.

[00:02:40]You guys, my sister and I was in the bedroom on the floor flipping this implant and it was mo one of the most traumatic things I've ever done. I will tell you about the most traumatic thing that I've done in this story time. So, breast implant flipped back to the right side. I went on about my day and my trip and everything was fine and then it started to come back. It was almost like the trauma of the boob flipping and me flipping it back caused my capsular contraure to come back. So a month later it started getting hard and high again.

[00:03:15]If you do research on this condition, you come to understand that the more surgeries that you have to fix it, the more likely it is to return. I knew that me getting new breast implants that there was a high probability of it calculating again. So, um, did some research and found a company that does ultrasound therapy and massage of the boob to in hopes of kind of like loosening up the the capsule and letting the boob soften and fall. The massaging part of it was one of the most painful things I've ever done in my life. It was so traumatic. And because I was already at a stage three of my capsular, meaning it was really hard and really tight and really high, it was kind of a lost cause for me. But I just went in as a last resort before I did the final thing that I can do. I have to get them taken out.

[00:04:19]I should have just left them alone.

[00:04:22]There was nothing wrong with them.

[00:04:24]Nothing. I can't believe I'm on this app crying. But like, it has been really, really hard.

[00:04:32]It's been so much pain and discomfort and just me being so self-conscious about it. Imagine going through surgery, spending thousands of dollars enduring weeks of pain just to finally feel confident in your body. But months later or even years later, you wake up and realize it was the worst decision you ever made. That is the reality of a growing number of women who once got breast implant and are now rushing to remove them. For many women, it feels like bigger breast equals more confidence, more attention, and sometimes even more opportunities. But for some, the experience becomes a nightmare they never expected. They describe symptoms like fatigue, brain fog, anxiety, hair loss, and unexplained illnesses. Something often referred to as breast implant illness. Today, we explore the real stories of women who regret getting breast implant, the complications they faced, and why many are now choosing expplant surgery to remove them. We'll also hear what doctors have to say about the risks long-term effect and why breast implants are not considered lifetime devices.

[00:05:43]What are your thoughts on breast implants? Please let me know in the comments below and please do well to subscribe, like, comment, and share.

[00:05:50]This is what breast implant illness looks like for me. I frequently get dry, itchy, and inflamed eyes. Random rashes appear over my body in symmetry all over my chest, my neck, and my arms and legs.

[00:06:03]My eyes have been so dry that I've actually not been able to open them and ended up in A and E because of it. I've experienced ringing in my ears, fatigue, low mood, hair loss, anxiety, and just full body inflammation. The reason I know it's breast implant illness is that I have tried absolutely everything else to figure out what is going on with me.

[00:06:24]I've done food allergy testing and also tested my cortisol levels. I've used topical steroid creams with no effect.

[00:06:30]There's so much more I've tested for and nothing's helped. And now these implants are coming out. What they don't tell you is how breast implants are going to ruin your health, your life, and everything. So, I got my breast implants in 2020. I was 19. I was 20 years old at the time. I had just turned 20. And something that I didn't know was how implants with your immune system. Just do not do it. I got symptoms of rejection and of BII, which is breast implant illness, about 6 months in. And at first, I kind of brushed it off because I was like, "Oh, well, it's probably not related. I'm still healing.

[00:07:22]It's still really new, but turns out two years later, I still have my implants and my health has declined so much. I am in the process of getting them out. But if you're in Canada, you know how expensive that is. And just to give you a bit of an idea, it's more expensive to get them out than to get them in. So that shows where the corruption is in all of this. Another thing is that FDA black labeled implants. So, what that means is that it's really [ __ ] dangerous and it is not recommended at all. But surgeons don't show you that because they just want to make money off of you, especially when you're young. I was like 20, so they kind of just took advantage of the fact that I was innocent and naive and I didn't really know everything that went with having implants. So, one of the first symptoms that I had was a tingling, burning sensation in my chest. And I kind of brushed it off because I was like, it's probably anxiety. But then I started getting numb hands and numb arms, tingling sensations. Um, I was losing my hair. My nails were breaking. I have digestive problems. My acne, I've never had acne in my life. My acne became so bad. Um, my brain fog. Literally, I forget how to finish sentences sometimes. Um, shortness of breath, which is very intense right now. Um, because they're so heavy and they're pushing on my lungs and on my ribs, so that can collapse at any moment in an extreme case. Um, so just a little PSA, if you want to get implants, do not. I trusted these little fun bags to make me feel better, but they nearly took my life. Let me explain.

[00:09:11]I want to say upfront that I realize that my story is not everybody's story.

[00:09:17]That's fine. But let me just tell you mine.

[00:09:22]It started with the fact that I'd had four kids in 5 years. And you can imagine the toll that that takes on somebody's body. So obviously it did.

[00:09:32]Things were no longer in the original place that they started. And after 10 years or so of after my last child um had grown up a little bit, I decided that I wanted to do something that would make me feel better about myself. My self-image was pretty low and I I knew that I could do this and it might make me feel better. And you know what? It did. It made me feel great. I I had confidence again. Um I I wasn't trying to show them off to everybody. it was really just for me. And so things were good until they weren't. So, uh, 2012 is when I had these silicone implants put in. I had done my research. I looked into what was best and this is what was best at the time. And so, I had I had them implanted.

[00:10:28]Everything was good for five years. But in 2017, I started experiencing these just weird things just out of the blue.

[00:10:37]Just things that that it started off small allergies, um, constant sinus infections, drainage, and it wasn't just sinus infections where like I used to get. I I would have to be on antibiotic every single time to kick it. And then I started getting these horrible migraines that would not go away. They would land me in bed day after day after day and then these weird skin rashes. It started off with just dry skin, but then they intensified into these weird rashes.

[00:11:12]Then I started having heart palpitations and out of the blue, here I am. I have been healthy all my life and all of a sudden I have these heart arhythmias and my my heart would would speed up really really fast and it would slow down and so I ended up having to wear a heart monitor twice. I remember going in for an ultrasound on my heart and I'm laying there for 20 minutes waiting for the technician to come in and start the ultrasound and I hadn't been doing anything but laying on this bed and he came in did the ultrasound and he asked me if I was okay and I said yeah why and he said because your heart rate is through the roof right now. So my resting heart rate would would just jump really high and then it would bottom out. Of course my blood pressure was was bottoming out. I I would pass out. I would just I'd get up to walk someplace and I would just pass out. The fatigue was horrible. Vertigo was horrible. I had constant body aches. I would go to bed fine. I'd wake up the next day not being able to move my neck and my my shoulders would hurt. I was having to go to the chiropractor all the time and he would work it out and then two days later I would be right back to where I was. U forgetfulness. I couldn't even remember the simplest of words. Eard drum pressure. It was just the the the symptoms just kept growing. And I remember telling my husband one day, I said, I I feel like for every month I live, I'm aging 10 years.

[00:12:48]I literally felt like I was dying.

[00:12:51]And I tried everything. We tried changing mattresses. I had gone to doctor after doctor after doctor. They did blood tests. They did ultrasounds.

[00:13:00]They did every kind of test you could think of. And they would all come back and they would say the same thing. It looks like you just need to de-stress your life. You're just really stressed out. And or this is just part of the aging process. And I was like, this cannot be part of the aging process at this point. I am I am in I'm 39 years old and there's this cannot be what every woman goes through. They they cannot feel like they are dying. And so all the doctors did, they prescribed me anti-depressants, anti-anxiety medication, and get this, appetite suppressants because I was depressed because of I was gaining weight like crazy. I I could just smell something and gain five pounds. Nothing changed about my diet or exercise, nothing. I It was just out of control. So everything was just stress related or depress, you know, depression related to the doctors.

[00:13:55]And I was done. I was so frustrated. And so after going to bed one night and waking up and it looked like I had been sunburned during the night, you I could pull my skin and just pull little pieces of skin off. I was done. I was so frustrated and I I'm a person of faith. And I just stood there with my eyes closed and I said, "Okay, God, no doctor knows what's wrong, but you made my body. You have to know. I need to know what it is." And I kid you not, whether you believe this or not, the word implants popped into my head like a neon sign. It was lit up.

[00:14:29]And I at that point, I had never heard of breast implant illness. I had never heard that that silicone breast implants or any implants could make you sick. I knew that if they ruptured or if they leaped that could cause problems in your body, but I did not know that intact implants could cause problems in your body. So while my house the rest of the people in my house were sleeping, I got up, grabbed my phone, and I went and Googled every symptom I had and com and put in breast implants. And it started hitting every single thing. Skin rashes, breast implants, joint pain, breast implants. And it finally the the straw that broke the camel's back for me was when I lost my hair. My hair started falling out in clumps. And you've probably seen on some of my other videos that I wear wigs because implants brought and introduced autoimmune disease into my body and I've lost my hair because of it. So I this led me on a journey of researching for 6 months and it led me to a community with 40,000 other women who had the same story I had. And so I read those stories and it led me to 2019 having my implants out. And I just want you to know that two days before I had surgery, I took a picture of my face because of the inflammation in my face and I wanted to I wanted to record my eyes. The whites of my eyes had gotten to the place where they were always yellow and always red. I took that picture and two days after I had my expplant surgery, my husband came and couldn't believe the difference in my face and my eyes and he took a picture then and the whites of my eyes were back to being vibrant white. Now I will say I am six years posttop now and I am still detoxing from all of the toxins that these introduced in my body. But I am living again. I am no longer aging rapidly. I am I feel like I'm now go I am I'm stable if not going backwards now. I feel good. I've got energy. My joints don't a ache anymore. My hair is growing back in but it's very slow. I do have it. I am still detoxing because detoxing takes a long time. It's not instantaneous like we wish it was. But I can say this.

[00:17:00]It was the best decision I have ever made to take these out of my body and the auto my autoimmune markers are nearly gone now. There are other issues I'm fighting but the autoimmune markers are nearly all gone and I have reversed the illness in my body. So, if my story can can help anybody out there, since I had my surgery, I've talked with 12 women who have followed me in the expplance uh procedure and all of them are starting to feel better as well. We there are no regrets about taking these out. If my story can help one person out there not feel like you're crazy, I'm willing to put it out there. You can DM me, comment below. I I would be happy to to point you in the right direction, give you some tips, talk to you, just, you know, talk to you back and forth, whatever. But, um, let this encourage you, and just know that you can't outsource your happiness, you can't outsource your identity. You cannot outsource your confidence because all of that is within you anyway. It's not in what you look like. It's not look, it's not in something that you can add to yourself. It's already in there. And so I'm fine. I am actually finding out who I am uniquely without adding anything to it.

[00:18:20]How do you go from a triple D down to barely anything?

[00:18:26]It was easy for me. Do you want to know why? Cuz I had breast implant illness and it was killing me slowly. The minute that you put breast implants in your body, it's a foreign object. Your body looks at it and says, "Oh, dang.

[00:18:39]Danger." and it starts fighting against your implants 24/7.

[00:18:43]That leaves your body open for anything to happen. So, what do you think's going to happen when you have a foreign object in your body that is leeching in your body? Even if they don't pop or leak, it's still leeching within your body.

[00:18:56]They're chemicals. What do you think's going to happen to you? It's going to cause sickness. Okay? Most people want to ignore the fact that their implants could be causing a sickness because it's very hard for them to realize like, "Wow, if I got my implants out, how am I going to feel feminine? How am I going to be sexy? These are my identity. How am I going to do that?" Well, you know what? You're not your implants. And I don't know about you, but to me, being healthy was more important than having fake sick implants on my body. I wanted to be healthy and vibrant and alive and it was stolen from me. I'm back because I don't have my implant settings anymore.

[00:19:38]>> Hey, I'm Dr. Christy Sutton at Dallas Chiropractic and Kinesiology and I want to tell you to not get breast implants.

[00:19:45]Do not make the same mistake that I made. These are the breast implants that were taken out of me. I had these put in when I was in my 20s. It was one of the worst mistakes of my life. I had serious nerve damage and pain and it went on for years and years and never got properly diagnosed because what I have found is that the side effects of breast implants are simply not taken seriously by the medical community and are not diagnosed and treated like they should. So please avoid these things. They are not worth it. breasts turn from an asset to a liability as with age and please just love your body, take care of your body.

[00:20:28]Don't put these things in you.

[00:20:30]>> I had a breast augmentation to get them redone and the rheatologist goes, "If you put them back in, you're going to ruin your life." I remember feeling so good once I got them. My confidence raised being postpartum. I started getting like these weird symptoms. I think something's wrong with me. I remember just feeling so ill all the time. I went down the rabbit hole.

[00:20:49]avoided anything that was like, "It's your implants." I must have spent thousands of dollars trying to figure out what was wrong with me. Maybe I have cancer. And it was a doctor here in Newport. And he goes, "It is your breast implants causing your issues."

[00:21:00]>> Doctors have warned for years that breast implants aren't lifetime devices.

[00:21:05]Over time, they can rupture, shift, or cause hard scar tissue known as capsular contraure. Like any surgery, there are risks such as infection, bleeding, and reactions to anesthesia. But when it comes to breast implant illness, research is still ongoing. Some doctors acknowledge that women report symptoms like fatigue and brain fog, even if the exact cause isn't fully proven. Others say that there is no enough evidence to directly link implants to these issues.

[00:21:36]But most agree that if a patient feels unwell and suspect their implant, removal is often considered. Truth be told, which plastic surgeons won't tell you, there's a 15 to 20% chance of a complication when you put a foreign body that's in there for a long period of time. Your immune system does a surveillance and ultimately it goes, "Yeah, no, I don't like you anymore."

[00:21:56]and form scar tissue. So, you're going to have more surgery for sure.

[00:22:00]>> Breast implants, my concerns. I would tell every patient that a breast implant, whether it's saline or silicone, is a foreign body. And what happens when you put a foreign body is your body mounts this incredible inflammatory reaction. And what I've seen in some of my own staff here when they've had their breast implants removed, you see that there's this enc casement of inflammatory layers because it's a foreign body. So you have all these inflammatory cells that go in and try to protect you. And so I would recommend that you really think twice about putting foreign body in your system.

[00:22:41]>> Well, let's talk breast implant illness and controversy. Boy, I'm going to get a lot of flack for this one. Let's see these comments blow up. Okay, I've talked about breast implant illness before. And yes, it's both real and not real. I explained that before. It's not real in the sense it doesn't have an official medical diagnosis and the fact that there is no lab that shows that there's any association. And there's no study when it comes to radiology but you do have it's very real you do have about half of patients when they do have the implant out their symptoms whatever it is could be dermatologic it could be cardiac it could be pain could be headaches etc rashes hair loss half of patients get better so clearly is there some association um we don't know that's the answer and so I think that you know listening to your patients and um following their wishes and getting the implants out is absolutely the right course of care. But here's the controversy. This is another one of those where I'm going to have doctors DM me or personally text me because they get mad when I say this stuff. A lot of doctors push this because of money. Taking out an implant and raw rah raw breast implant illness, breast implant, blaming every problem the patient has on their implants is good money for many surgeons. Taking them out five minute, maybe a 10-minute procedure. They even will say, "Oh, we'll do it without that dangerous anesthesia." Bull. Okay. They're only doing that because they don't want to pay the cost of anesthesia. They want to take more of your money home in their pocket. Okay? In fact, if you really think it's because of breast amp illness, you're supposed to take out both the implant and the capsule. And peeling that capsule off of the chest wall and off the muscle, okay, that's pretty irritating with the muscle relaxed. In my opinion, it's a way better procedure done in sleep. Okay? So there are doctors that are absolutely turning this into a business and really cheering on the mantra of breast implant breast implant illness. Again, it can be very real. Maybe there is a study we don't know yet we can do to prove it.

[00:24:35]And you should always listen to your patients. You should always take them out. But you need a very evenbased conversation with the patient about the realities that could or could not. And I always offer my patients that if I take it out, the symptoms don't go away in six months or longer. I'm happy to put it back in. and even discount the whole process. So, listen to your patient and don't make this a money-making opportunity.

[00:24:58]>> Five important things to know before getting breast implants. One, implants are not lifetime devices. They must be replaced at least every 10 years. Two, for silicone implants, the FDA recommends getting imaging every other year to check for a leak. Three, before deciding on implants, educate yourself about breast implant illness. Four, there is a rare lymphoma associated with breast implants. These are predominantly associated with textured implants, but there is still ongoing research and investigation. The FDA also recently reported another cancer squamosol carcinoma that has been associated with implants. And five allergan and natural textured biocell implants known as the gummy bear implant were recalled by the FDA. And finally, go to the fda.gov gov to read the blackbox warning on implants.

[00:25:48]>> At the end of the day, this is not about shaming anyone who chooses to get breast implants. It's about awareness because every surgery comes with risks and every decision about your body should be fully informed. If you're considering it, take your time, do your research, listen to real experiences, not just the perfect before and after photos. And most importantly, make the decision for yourself, not because of pressure, trends, or unrealistic beauty standards.

[00:26:18]What do you think about breast implant?

[00:26:20]Would you ever consider getting them or removing them? Let me know your thoughts in the comment. And if you found this video helpful, please do well to subscribe, like, comment, and share.

[00:26:31]Thank you and do see you on the next one.