BII Warriors

Our Journey of Healing

“BII Warriors”

Hear from women who have questions about whether to explant and women who are recovering from breast explantation and how they are managing their physical and mental healing. We will also hear from those who are championing the movement to make sure this doesn’t happen again.

Terri Diaz

Hi, my name is Terri Diaz, here is my BII story. I got my breast implants in 2006. Even though I started to experience symptoms right away, I did not associate them with my implants. I just attributed them to becoming older and the pressures of having just started a business. As most busy women do, I just disregarded the symptoms.

But four years after getting my implants, my symptoms became so severe, I could no longer ignore them. I became extremely ill. I developed food allergies. I could not digest food. I experienced debilitating pain and fatigue. I developed migraines daily. I suffered from dizzy spells. You name it, I had it. I had over 32 symptoms, and 10 diagnosed auto-immune illnesses. I felt as if my whole body was falling apart!

Still, the doctors I consulted with or myself never considered it could be my breast implants that were causing these problems…

Read Terri’s Full Story, CLICK HERE

Lacole Foster

Hi, I’m Lacole and I would like to share life on the sidelines with you. I first got saline breast implants in 1998 at the age of 24 to attain B-cup sized breasts. In 2007, when I was 33 years old, I decided to get my second set of saline implants to achieve a size C. A year later, in 2008, due to a rupture in my left breast implant, I received my third set of saline implants, even though my doctor at the time attempted to convince me to get silicone for a more aesthetically pleasing effect.

After my third implant surgery, I immediately became sick. I was hospitalized with heart issues of unknown origin. No one on my medical team – which included a neurologist, an endocrinologist, a cardiologist, a rheumatologist, and an orthopedic surgeon – just to name a few – could explain why my heart was functioning abnormally. At times, I was in critical condition and thought I would die. My medical team diagnosed me with the auto-immune diseases Myasthenia Gravis, Sjogren’s, Myositis, and possible Myopathy…

Read Lacole’s Full Story, CLICK HERE

Susanne

Yesterday was one month since I removed my breast implants. It has been quite a month. On one hand, I have struggled with recovery and the changes in what I look like. I feel like everyone is staring at me. In reality, breasts are not what makes you beautiful or defines you.

What defines me? Who I am. A wife, a mother, a daughter, a sister, a friend. Vanity won for a very long time. I ignored the symptoms of Breast Implant Illness. I allowed my body to be poisoned by foreign objects that were sitting on top of my lungs and heart.

It took strength and it took courage, more than I knew I had in me. But, I did it, and I am on the lighter side. I woke up from surgery (after the sickness from anesthesia which is normal for me) feeling better than I have felt in years. My skin changed, the white in my eyes became lighter, and all my joint pain was gone! Each day, more and more symptoms have disappeared. I feel more alive than I have I so many years!

Susanne’s Full Story, CLICK HERE

Yvette M.

My name is Yvette Melby and I am a Breast Implant Illness survivor.

I first got breast implants in May 2005. By the beginning of 2006, my symptoms were debilitating and incapacitating. I had chronic neck, shoulder and back pain. Other symptoms were joint and muscle pain, flu-like symptoms lasting only 24 hours at a time (weirdest feeling ever), brain fog, Raynaud’s disease, allergies (I had never been allergic to anything before), chronic fatigue, chronic migraines, numbness in my feet, very cold hands and feet, heart palpitations, severe chest pain going towards my back, metal taste, hair loss, body aches, and more. As a woman who focuses on eating healthy and exercising regularly, my friends and family said I was the sickest, healthiest person they knew.

In June 2016, I had surgery to replace my saline implants with silicone gel implants. Shortly after, I began to experience hardening of my right breast with severe pain behind my implant. At 8 weeks post-op, I had a Grade II/III capsular contracture and an array of other physical symptoms.

I went to several doctors, had many diagnostic tests, and failed various types of physical therapy. My doctors just kept referring me to other specialists…

Yvette’s Full Story, CLICK HERE

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Disclaimer

Please understand Dr. Barr will do his very best to achieve a pleasing result – HOWEVER, due to the unknown effects of tissue damage caused by the implant and its removal, cosmetic results are unpredictable and cannot be guaranteed.