She got implants in 2002. Eight years later, in 2010, the symptoms began: fatigue that wouldn’t go away, aches and pains no one could explain. Another ten years passed before she decided to have surgery again, this time to have them removed.
@laurenhomeschoolmama Skip the implants ladies! That’s MOLD.
In October 2020, the answer she had been searching for for a decade finally arrived 🧫 There was mold inside her implants. Her story, told on TikTok, resonated with thousands of women going through the same thing under the name ‘Breast Implant Illness,’ a syndrome that still sparks medical debate.
It is not an isolated case: in 2023, about 74,000 women in the United States had their implants removed, according to The Aesthetic Society. Cases like Holly’s, 57, or Abbey’s, a police officer and mother who had them removed three years after getting them, show a pattern that more and more specialists are beginning to take seriously.