My name is Melanie Kidd and in 2019 I made the decision to have breast implants put in.

Within the first year I started feeling tired and wiped out half way through the day.

Over the years I started to develop inflammations in my joints and my vision, which has always been absolutely amazing, started to deteriorate. But doctors said it was autoimmune and age. They didn't know what kind of autoimmune and kept taking blood, do tests, take money and have me come back over and over with no results.

Now 6 years later, I'm unable to hold a cookie sheet when I bake cookies with my daughter for longer than a minute without my fingers locking up and my hands ending up in pain. I can't sit for longer than 30 minutes and play games or watch games with my kids, because the pain will last for the rest of the day and into the next.

But besides my physical experience I truly want to shed light on something that's been emerging from within my community of female friends.

Breast Implant Illness

✨️Breast implants carry a black boxed warning, the highest level of warning available… meaning they can cause serious injury or even death.

✨Breast implants are made with 40+ heavy metals, neurotoxins, and known carcinogens.

These chemicals leech into the body even when the implants are not ruptured. This is called gel bleed.

These chemicals have an impact on all bodily systems causing issues such as thyroid disease, hormone issues, leaky gut, neurological issues, high cholesterol, food intolerances, histamine intolerances/mast cell, inflammation, autoimmune, anxiety, depression and so much more.

✨The moment implants are placed in the body, the immune system begins to fight them. This causes the capsule to form in an effort to wall off the foreign objects that do not belong. The immune system never gets the signal to stop fighting, this leads to chronic inflammation in the entire body and autoimmune symptoms/disease. With a compromised immune system, Candida overgrowth is also common. Co infections such as Lyme or EBV will no longer be able to be kept dormant and will start to resurface and fester.

✨Our muscles are not meant to be lifted off the chest wall with two large objects shoved under them. This throws the body out of alignment causing neck, shoulder, back, and hip pain.

✨Saline implants have the added risk of growing mold. They also still contain a silicone shell and cause all the same problems as silicone implants.

✨Breast implants put our body into a state of constant fight or flight. High cortisol. Causing a dysregulated nervous system.

✨Silicone gel “Gummy bear” implants are said to not be able to rupture. Surgeons will cut an implant in half, run it over with a car, and stab holes in it trying to prove the gel will not leak. This is basically implant propaganda as those are brand new implants that have not been sitting inside a warm moist environment for years/decades where the shell begins to break down not just from the warm environment but from the immune system attacking it. They can and DO turn into silicone soup.

✨Implants can cause a man made cancer of the immune system, Breast Implant Associated Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma and the newly discovered Breast Implant Associated Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

This Fundraiser is personal and will be used for my personal surgery. Any and all contributions are immensely appreciated 💗