For any lady even thinking of breast augmentation I would highly recommend you spend a week reading the daily posts by real patients in a fb group Breast implant illness and healing by Nicole. It has over 55,000 ladies worldwide sharing what breast implants did to them. It seems even saline implants may have silicone coating with toxins.
I paid £265 for a private ultrasound and my implants are intact. This gives me some comfort until explant in January I hope. I just found out that besides the chronic dry eyes I have (using tear drops, steroid eye drops), oesophageal ulcer and eoe, my early menopause in my 40s may have also been caused by these silicone implants! A lot of the ladies are also reporting early menopause! Another had a total thyroidectomy before she realised it could have been breast implant illness and would have reversed with explant. Ladies are even explanting months after getting BA due to breast implant illness. I trusted both CE Europe approval and US FDA approval for my breast implants. 4 sets later (3 sets recalled/banned and waiting for this French company Allergan textured coating silicone set to be recalled in the uk after being banned in France) and 5 breast surgeries now facing my 6th breast surgery, I realised I cannot trust regulators or manufacturers.
Ladies, get BA with your own fat cells or gain weight as breast tissue is mostly fat anyway. Read of ladies who were big chested when younger but after breast feeding deflated so got implants which then started causing problems. Or ladies who had mastectomy for cancer and were given silicone implants which have caused them palpitations, difficulty swallowing, atypical chest pain, arthritis etc. Be safe and healthy. Ladies are explanting from their 20s to 60s world-wide! And I am now a firm believer in bii as ladies share their b&a explant photos even of their faces changing from inflamed and bloated to young and fresh.
In conclusion before you pay for BA in Korea, research breast implant illness and spend time in the fb group. There are sad cases where some cannot afford explant after life circumstances change, job loss, divorce, etc. and in the UK, the nhs only explants for stage 4 capsular contracture where the implant is about to burst or confirmed rupture and even then it depends on funding in your area and the nhs surgeon as to whether they do proceed and some may only remove and leave the capsule behind which has led to continued bii symptoms and having to pay to get the capsules removed too. Some are taking out loans or maxing credit cards to pay for removal. Remember there are now 626 cases of breast implant lymphoma worldwide and growing as explanted implants are being sent to labs for testing and if positive you may need chemotherapy!
