MOM NEEDS BREAST EXPLANT - BREAST IMPLANT ILLNESS
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Hello beautiful souls, I write you today with humility and gratitude. First let me tell you about me. My name is Jasmine, I am 28 this August. I am a 100% single mom to a sweet, happy 9 month old baby girl. She is my world . I am a former international published model - in 2015, my modelling career decided that I needed to have such enhancements done to look the "part". However, by 2016 I had completed 3 breast augmentations due to complications and everything went downhill from there.
I AM IN NEED OF SURGERY AS SOON AS I GET FUNDING!
From 2015-2020, the Breast Implant Illness had begun. My mental health had completely deteriorated: I was in and out of the mental ward at the hospital, I had numerous suicide attempts, I was dealing with Anxiety and Depression every single day. No medicine, counselling, DBT/CBT program helped me. I was experienced rashes, acne, constant tonsillitis to the point I had to get a tonsillectomy in 2016, 1 year after my 1st Augmentation and 2 weeks post- second Augumentation. This should have been the red flag. However, I continued going throughout my life thinking everything was fine & it was just a case of the flu / cold until 2020.
2020 comes around and my concerns weren't related to how I looked anymore or fighting the dark feelings in my head, but it was now about my physical body, it was terrifying. The brain fog was so bad, I was having severe memory loss, both short and long term. My GI track was completely out of wack and still is! I am constantly nauseous in pain, cramping, and currently on Pantoprazole which I have been on for almost 3 years now and everytime I try to come off, my symptoms worsen to the point that I can not eat and I lose weight, quickly.
What toxic foreign object had I implanted into my body?! Why do I feel sick every single day! I just want this to end.
2020 hit and I was bed ridden, 6 months into the year I was in the hospital weekly for different symptoms, they were going to test me for MS & Lupus - I was put on Gabapentin, Lyrica, and anything nerve related to help with my joint and excruiating nerve pain. Doctors couldn't find anything while I was living in Alberta at the time so I decided to move to British Columbia to see what the doctors there said. I went to doctors in Vancouver, nothing came back, every single time, all labs were NORMAL. I went to the doctors in Kelowna, BC and was referred to a nerve specialist and everything came back NORMAL. From my nerve pain to my constant GI issues that have still yet to be healed (Which all of these issues will heal 100% once these TOXIC IMPLANTS are REMOVED!)
Every time I left the doctor & hospital, I felt truly defeated and frustrated as I had no answers and the doctors made me feel like I was just hallucinating all of these symptoms. A few months later, to create the complete and utter nerve pain that most days lead to not being able to walk, suffering through walking, days, not being able to hold my head up because of neck pain, and days of non stop crying, no medication helped. I was down to 108lb 5'5 because I could not eat, my stomach was in constant turnmoil.
BIRTH STORY - IMPLANTS TOXICITY LED TO PRE-ENCLAMPSIA AND TUBIAL REMOVAL
2021, I became pregnant. Luckily the nerve pain has subsided for the most part during my pregnancy but the GI issues, body pain, inflammation became worse. Week 34 of my pregnancy, I had to go in for an emergency C-Section, my blood pressure was 120/100 and I was diagnosed with pre-enclampsia. My liver and lungs were failing, baby's heart rare was dropping, I was put on oxygen and Mag Sulfate for days (worst thing ever to come off of but it prevented me from having seziures). Due to the severity of my pre-enclampsia (they had 2 on 1 nurses on me 24/7 and said it was the worse case they have seen at South Health campus), they recommended I do a tubial removal. Basically recommended I never have children again. I took their advice and a tubial removal was completed during the c-section. Heart breaking but wasn't going to go through that again and possibly die while giving birth. Post c-section, I remained in hospital for 8 days because I was not healing, everyday they would plan to release me but saw I was so ill and was unable to even go to the bathroom, walk, or care for my baby and I was expected to go home alone and care for myself and my newborn daughter.
9 months post-partum and I am truly TERRIFIED of ever going back to a state of pain, immobility, and severe distress that I was in prior to my pregnancy. However, symptoms are started to slowly creep back again.
My current BREAST IMPLANT ILLNESS symptoms include:
- Random 5uicidal Thoughts, Depression, Anxiety, panic attacks
- Inflammation - EVERYWHERE. Face, throat (lymph nodes), neck, abdomen
- GI Issues - nausea, pain
- Chronic Fatigue
- Weakness
- Brain Fog
- Memory Loss
- Concentration Problems
- Rash / Acne
- Weight Fluctuations
- Lymph Node Enlargement
- BAD PMS
- Adrenal Fatigue
- Physical Activity Difficult
- Dizziness
- Headaches / Migraines / Vertigo
- Flu-ish Often
- Poor Circulation
- Fluid Retention
- Hard time Breathing
- Insomnia
- Hot / Cold
- Night Sweats (for years, unknown cause before!)
- Ingrown Toenails
- Blurry Vision
- Yeast Infections (constant for years)
Now, I have spoken to many other ladies who have gotten
explant done and 100% of then feel 100% better! Some even hrs later, days later and weeks later!
I am asking for your help, even just a little bit helps to get this raised so I can book this surgery for October 2022 (2 months from now). I will need childcare as I live in a town I know no one and will not be able to care / lift my daughter while I am healing. I will be getting 3 surgeries in 1: explant, capsulectomy and maxopexy. The Government of Canada does not cover explants, unless you have BIA-ALCL (the rare cancer associated with textured implants) or a life or death infection. It is quite ridiculous to be honest! But this is why I and many other woman are here to create awareness around BII!
I created a GoFundMe for a couple of reasons!
1. To create awareness about BII and the negative impacts I and many thousands and thousands of woman worldwide have encountered with getting implants.
2. As a single mom, I really need help financially to get these removed asap. It is not covered by Health Canada / any of the provincial governments unless it is cancer related or a deadly infection. It should be covered but the problem is - it is not yet recognized as a medical diagnosis in Canada, surgeons and doctors don't want to admit to this being a real illness. FDA (US has recognized it) but Canada hasn't and they just sluff it off as something else, just as they have been doing for YEARS AND YEARS with my case.
I concluded this on my own based on researching and cross analyzing hundreds of similar cases of woman that have had the exact same symptoms. Cosmetic Surgeons don't want to admit to this illness because it'll drop their revenue and alot will go out of business because their entire practice is putting implants of some sort. It is disgusting - that is why it is so important to create awareness and that is what I am doing with my campaign.
It is hard to come out to the public with real life issues, photos and videos of you crying, then also going from DDD perfect tits to saggy scarred breasts afterwards is also hard but luckily I am resilient and courageous enough to do this so I can help others. ✨
Here is how the money will be used (give or take depending on the doctor I retain):
Estimation Price Breakdown (after a consultation with Dr.Plant in Toronto):
$10,250 with capsulectomy
$6,150 MastoPexy
= $16,400
+ taxes (HST ONTARIO) x 1.13
= $18,532 (seems high so I will keep shopping)
2 other surgeons are apparently 10,000+tax
The remaining $1,400 will be used for daytime childcare
for a 2 weeks ($200/day)
I also will need to do IV's and detoxification for many
months folowing the procedure.
Here are some credible sources and stories to learn more about Breast Implant Illness (BII)
https://www.breastcancer.org/treatment/surgery/breast-reconstruction/types/implant-reconstruction/illness/breast-implant-illness
https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3OTc5MDgxOTYxNDc4MDMy?story_media_id=2827185910730022555&igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
With all my heart, I thank you to those that choose to donate. I promise that I will never put anything into my body again. This would help me to become healthy so I can care for my only beautiful daughter that I have and can have (has to get my tubes removed as well due to pre-enclampsia this year after my c-section!)
Please don't hesitate to reach out to my on Facebook or Instagram @thrivemuma, I would love to meet you & take you along my journey of healing.
Sending love and light ✨
Organizer
Jasmine Megan
Organizer
Hamilton, ON