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Danica Patrick Pretty Intense Podcast

My Breast Implant Illness Journey

Danica Patrick Pretty Intense Podcast

Jennifer Cawley

Danica Patrick, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Pretty Intense

4.6995 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This is a special edition episode. Breast Implant Illness (BII) is not widely known, but it is real. Maybe you have some of the symptoms we are talking about today. Listen to Danica's full "Explant" surgery journey. She talks with her surgeon Dr. Shaun Parson. We hope that this Special Episode is helpful to other sufferers of BII.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Something tells me that I should make a little video about how I'm feeling.

0:05.0

I'm really excited to get the implants out in like 10 days

0:10.0

because, number one, my hair sucks.

0:14.0

Remember that long, dark beautiful hair?

0:16.0

No moss.

0:17.0

The reason why I cut it short was just because it was not as healthy.

0:20.0

It just seemed like, oh, it's just not as nice.

0:22.0

Let's just start over. It just seemed like, oh, it's just not as nice. Let's just

0:23.0

start over. Just doesn't want to grow back now and it's not that thick. And one of

0:28.0

the main symptoms of BII is hair thinning and losing your hair.

0:33.0

That's nice.

0:34.0

Another is thyroid.

0:36.0

After a year of three different doctors,

0:39.0

three different medicines,

0:41.0

six or so different doses, can't get that right, can't get the

0:45.3

can't get the dosage right, my thyroid is still not functioning at the way it should,

0:50.0

which is kind of the gateway to your metabolism.

0:53.0

So weight gain has been super frustrating

0:56.6

and weight loss has been nearly impossible.

1:00.8

I mean, I did a five day cleanse and lost zero weight not even water weight so very very frustrating

1:06.4

I think the short-term memory loss stuff is a real thing and I think energy too I mean I just have such a strong mindset that it's hard for me to like just sit around but I have to will myself kind of every day. I guess that's something I've never put together like Like it's not just natural bubbly energy,

1:23.4

it's just a will to like not sit around and do something.

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