Women across the country say their breast implants are making them sick. The unofficial diagnosis: breast implant illness. There’s more than five hundred symptoms, but the most common are fatigue, brain fog, muscle aches and joint pain.
For the first time in the more than 20 years I've been covering stories concerning problems with breast implants, I sat down with a local plastic surgeon who decided to remove her breast implants and to speak about it publicly.
Michigan surgeons push for informed consent before getting breast implants
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Dr. Brad Jacobs holds up a silicone implant gel (L) and a saline implant gel (R) inside of his office November 21, 2006 in New York City.
By: Carolyn Clifford , WXYZ Web Team
Posted at 7:28 AM, May 12, 2021
and last updated 2021-05-12 07:28:31-04
Today, despite black box warnings being placed on breast implants in 2019, 400,000 women each year are still getting implants.
However, there s a new fight for a letter of informed consent so before getting implants women know the health risks ahead of time.
When you Google breast implants, what pops up are loads of articles of celebrities rocking implants with pride like talk show host Wendy Williams, or speaking of horrifying regret. There are also famous people who have gotten their breast implants removed, like Crystal Hefner claiming they were slowly poisoning
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Michigan surgeons push for informed consent before getting breast implants
Michigan surgeons push for informed consent before getting breast implants
Posted at 4:42 PM, May 11, 2021
and last updated 2021-05-18 12:42:28-04
(WXYZ) â Today, despite black box warnings being placed on breast implants in 2019, 400,000 women each year are still getting implants.
However, there s a new fight for a letter of informed consent so before getting implants women know the health risks ahead of time.
When you Google breast implants, what pops up are loads of articles of celebrities rocking implants with pride like talk show host Wendy Williams, or speaking of horrifying regret. There are also famous people who have gotten their breast implants removed, like Crystal Hefner claiming they were slowly poisoning her still while many have had them removed.