out of the silence: Part Two
I skipped ahead in the timeline a bit from my last post to save (many) people the agony of my life’s minutia…this is supposed to be a recap! Summer 2018, a friend of mine added me to a Facebook group about Breast Implant Illness. It was around the time I started opening up about my MS diagnosis. I had a lot on my mind. I disregarded it at first but after a chance interaction with a woman one day in January 2019, I began to dig deeper. Another long convoluted story... In July 2008, I had a breast augmentation for cosmetic reasons. I remember at one of the visits surrounding my surgery, the plastic surgeon told me that in ten years I would need to have the implants exchanged. Well, by March 2019, I was closing in on 11 years with those toxic bags of silicone fixed under my pectorals (chest muscles for those not as nerdy as myself). Anytime I mentioned random/weird symptoms to a physician wondering if there was a relationship to MS, I was met with the an