'Death bags': Woman's warning after breast implants 'almost kill her'
A woman who endured six years of mental and physical trauma after getting breast implants has warned other women not to go under the knife after the “death bags” almost killed her.
Nat Alexander, from the Gold Coast, revealed the sharp downward spiral of her health following her surgery as an insecure 20-year-old.
Having had the “toxic foreign” implants removed on Tuesday, the 26-year-old says her health has finally started returning to normal.
“They sold me the dream and I bought it. The price I paid was my health,” Ms Alexander wrote in a Facebook post documenting her horrifying ordeal.
She explained how three years ago she lost feeling in the entire left side of her body and instantly knew “something was not right”.
From that point she sought advice from “doctors, naturopaths, specialists, therapists and so many more”, only to be told she was “perfectly healthy”.
This was despite a vast list of symptoms including severe fatigue, mental health issues, muscle weakness, joint pain and heart palpitations.
“I constantly experienced nausea, insomnia, an irritated bladder, vertigo, dry hair and skin, a decreased libido, memory loss, food intolerances, inflammation,” she wrote.
“Swollen/tender lymph nodes, vertigo, severe hormone imbalance/mood swings, urinary tract infections and the list goes on.”
Ms Alexander was left feeling helpless and desperate – that was until she found a group with more than 70,000 women all experiencing similar symptoms to herself.
Even more profound was the fact they all had breast implants as well.
“They were suffering from the same symptoms, having the same issues and concerns. The more I researched and uncovered, the more angry, disappointed and concerned I became,” she wrote.
That was when Ms Alexander first heard about breast implant illness – a condition not proven by science, but something thousands of women claimed to have experienced.
“I could not believe that my breast implants could cause me to be so sick necrologically, optically, and compromise my entire immune system,” she said.
Following her $6000 reversal surgery this week, Ms Alexander has pleaded for other girls to love the body they have and stay away from potentially life-ending surgery.
She told Yahoo News Australia she could now breathe properly for the first time in six years, and had experienced improved vision and no more heart problems.
Ms Alexander said others had advised her the rest of her symptoms would fade gradually and her full health would return soon enough.
“It’s still early days but there’s 70,000 girls all going through the same thing and when they have surgery the symptoms slowly go away,” she said.
Ms Alexander described her decision to have the implants as the best she has made for her life.
“I finally have a life again. I hope you all choose to take your life back too,” she said.
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