A woman who once had breast implants says breast augmentation surgery was the most dystopian thing she had ever done in life, and that her breast implants made her ill.
Speaking six years after having her implants removed, she says she’s gotten her health back 100 percent.
Natalie Alzate of OfflineHuman.com and “Natalie’s Outlet” has 8.24 million subscribers on YouTube and 702,000 followers on Instagram, where she shared her story on Sunday.
Natalie Alzate first shared her explant experience in a moving video on June 13, 2019, where details make her decision and recovery all the more noteworthy.
Here’s what she shared Sunday:
“I got my girlies done and I regretted it, so let’s talk about it.
“People don’t really talk about this, but the day of surgery I remember handing over a stack of cash and laying down on this table completely naked.
“Just getting ready to be cut open.
“It was the most dystopian and trippy thing I’ve ever done in my life.
“A few years into getting my breast implants, I started experiencing a lot of different symptoms, ranging from hair loss to brain fog, to always feeling really, really cold.
“My biggest symptoms was feeling like this constant tiredness—but bedridden, you can’t get out of bed, and shocks from the back of my back, to my neck.
“My bones felt like I was 80-years-old.
“After going to the doctors, getting blood-work done I come back and I have hypothyroidism.
“At the time one of the YouTubers that I follow, Karissa Pukas uploaded a YouTube video about her breast implants.
“How she was going to get them removed, which was crazy because I actually had followed her journey when she was about to get them in.
“Super-informative video and I just remember a lot of what she’s feeling I’m actually experiencing myself.
“But I remember I took the video off, I didn’t want to really accept it.”
A video by Karissa Pukas on her experience with breast implants, breast implant illness, and explant surgery is her channel’s second most popular, having been viewed more than 2-million times since July 28, 2018.
“Finally at my turning point, I decided to really look deeper into my implants, and I realized that a lot of women were speaking about BII—breast implant illness.
“I joined a forum of thousands of women who had experienced severe health issues with their implants.
“It was the point where I really had to check myself, look in the mirror and say, girl this is what’s been making me so sick.
“It’s been six years since my explant.
“I completely got my health back. My hypothyroidism is completely gone. I am 100% better. I no longer experience brain fog. My energy is back. I don’t have those weird shocks, my temperature completely regulated.”
Natalie says she regretted getting implants but that they taught her a valuable life lesson.
“I did regret doing that. And it also just taught me a really valuable life lesson to accept yourself with all of the abnormities and all the things that the world says we can’t be.
“It taught me a lot about how precious your health really is and how it should never be taken for granted.