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After years of suffering from joint pain and fatigue, Alicia R. learned those may be breast implant illness symptoms and had her breast implants removed.
A breast implant is a prosthesis used to change the size, shape, and contour of a person's breast.In reconstructive plastic surgery, breast implants can be placed to restore a natural looking breast following a mastectomy, to correct congenital defects and deformities of the chest wall or, cosmetically, to enlarge the appearance of the breast through breast augmentation surgery.
Post-mastectomy pain syndrome is a chronic neuropathic pain that usually manifests as continuous pain in the arm, axilla, chest wall, and breast region. [3] Pain is most likely to start after surgery, [3] although adjuvant therapy, such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy, may sometimes cause new symptoms to appear. [4]
5 years post breast implant explant, and I have had a total metamorphosis. The first year, I wept nonstop. Had lost over 90% of my natural breasts to necrosis and refused to get a fat transfer.
It is a medical complication that can be painful and discomforting, and might distort the aesthetics of the breast implant and the breast. Although the cause of capsular contracture is unknown, factors common to its incidence include bacterial contamination, rupture of the breast-implant shell, leakage of the silicone-gel filling, and hematoma.
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Polypropylene implants absorb water very slowly, about <0.01% in 24 hours. [2] The polypropylene, which is yarn-like, causes irritation to the implant pocket which causes the production of serum which fills the implant pocket on a continual basis. [citation needed] This causes continuous expansion of the breast after surgery. Growth can only be ...
There is preliminary evidence that, after breast implant surgery, the presence of hematoma increases the risk of developing capsular contracture. [ 5 ] In mammography screening , scar tissue resulting from a breast hematoma can easily be confused with tumor tissue, [ 6 ] especially in the first years following surgery.