Jen and Herself: Healing from Breast Implants

In this episode, I share my journey of awareness that my "safe" saline breast implants were making me incredibly sick with brain fog, joint pain, and chronic fatigue.  I thought I was dying.  I also discuss my journey to finding a surgeon to properly remove  my breast implants before Breast Implant Illness was a recognized diagnosis.  

With my breast implants out, my health drastically improves yet I discuss me uncovering that I have chronic Lyme disease and co-infections.  Currently I am in remission from Lyme, Bartonella, and Babesia.  

This episode is packed with vulnerability and personal truths.  

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PJ McNerney: 0:00

Warning, listen to this podcast at your own risk. Side effects may include joy, feeling, content, illumination, newfound senses of purpose and wellbeing. Courage, realizing you are not alone.

Jennifer McNerney: 0:18

Welcome to the Ripple Effect. I am your host Jen McNerney, sharing the unfolding stories that made us and healed us.

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welcome to this week episode of The Ripple Effect, and this week is one of those episodes where I just get to tell a component of my story and the whole point of this podcast. The ripple effect has been about sharing the people, the connections, the different modalities, the things that helped to heal myself or my family members, and. I realized that I just kind of delved in and, there is a podcast about my pal expansion journey, which is still ongoing. As you can see. I have my braces on. And, that is like getting the finer details of what has been for me, the structure component. and yeah, I just kind of started interviewing people and giving snippets of the story. So this. Piece. This part of the story was really my down and out rock bottom physical health story. so I'll backtrack When I was in, it was just outta college probably in my. Clinical fellowship year after grad school, I finally was like able to visit something that I was super insecure about related to my body. I had a really, drastic, asymmetry in my breast tissue and I wanted to do something about it, so I had. Thought about getting breast implants, which I ended up doing, getting a saline breast implant, the kind that I could actually, there were ports so we could, I had such a difference in symmetry on that left side, which is so interesting cuz that is part of my journey and more of the hindsight awarenesses about my left side of my body being the more constricted, Side. So I just didn't have breast tissue on that side. I've since returned to asymmetry. in my forties. I could have possibly, and I could still do this, but I don't feel that that's an alignment for me, at this time. If I were to just check in to now, I don't feel like it's an alignment for me to. Go for like a fat transfer and create symmetry that way. But that is an option, and I'll speak about that later. I wish I had known that that was an option, earlier to my journey. So I'm in my early twenties and I think I finally had told my mom that I wanted to go ahead and get breast implants and I got. The quotes and because insurance wasn't gonna cover it, I think we even submitted photos of the asymmetry saying, look at, this is like a medical,, a deformity of some sort. I didn't form breast tissue on that side. And of course it got denied. And I do remember being the office and it was gonna be a lot of trauma to my body because they would normally like split it up. And we just wanted to do the surgical costs. The anesthesia just kind of lump it all together. And, I think at that time you could put it on like a care credit card or something like that. So I did that and right away my body did not like them. What I will point out to, and I think this happens to a lot of people, although more people, more and more women are becoming aware of the toxicity of breast implants and, the FDA has to just recently had to put a black. Warning label on breast implants. And I know that supposedly saline were supposed to be safer, but they're still made out of that silicone shell. And if you really just think about breast implants from a critical thinking level, it is putting a foreign body in your body and your body physiologically, is designed to encapsulate that foreign. Body. And, over time that takes its toll on your immune system on everything it forms these capsules around the implants. So, yeah, like, it makes sense like people that get another, an implant from another human, let's say like a kidney or whatever, a kidney transplant, let's say, or lung, you have to be on medication so that your body doesn't attack that. Foreign object, that foreign organ. So why would breast implants be any different, or any implant for that matter? So anyways. Of course, hindsight being 2020, I love hindsight. It's so humbling. It's so humbling When you get these awarenesses. You go through all the emotions of ah, regret remorse. Wishing you knew more. but then also looking at, if you're in a more reframe of wow, that was part of my journey, and look at how much I've learned and look what I did with that knowledge and how I'm spreading it. So this is the point of the podcast, the ripple effect and. I get implants and right away, oh my gosh, my mother, she's such a saint. She is the one that like drove me to surgery and then back home. I couldn't lift my arms, I couldn't drink. She had to like, feed me from a straw and she didn't gimme a lot of pain medications just because of the, addictive, traits in our family lineage on both sides. So, she was like, Rationing the Vicodin, which is probably good because now what I know with, in regards to entities and how they get in, I'm glad my mom, mama bear wasn't giving me the Vicodin. Anyway, my body started to reject it right away. There were so many red flag signs that I just didn't like these implants inside of me. Like I actually, part of my tissue, breast tissues, near my nipples started to get, die, get the necrosis that black, like scabby. So I have scar tissue there. And it just was a long road to healing. but it did solve the very thing that was like driving me nuts is that in my mind, if anybody deviated when I was talking to them in conversation to this area, my heart area or whatnot, I'd be like, oh my gosh. They know. And it was also just, affecting my intimacy with boyfriends, ex-boyfriends at the time, and. societal pressures about having a certain body and looking a certain way. Certainly like having one boob that's bigger than the other is unless you've gone through, chemo, I know it's common to have asymmetry, but mine was like such a drastic difference that it was very noticeable. I would stuff my bra on that left side. And yeah, Hindsight, even if I knew probably all the warnings about like autoimmune conditions and all the things that I know now, I don't know. I had such fragile self-esteem in, in my twenties that I probably, probably still would've done it. so yeah, I learned a boatload. so fast forward to, I think I was told that was like, once you got those implants in, like you don't have to switch'em out, which is a fallacy you do. It's supposed to be like your implants have like a 10 year shelf life. And, on the journey, what happened was, I, we had just moved to Colorado and I had twins, so there was like a perfect storm. I had a lot of grief and trauma, and then I got pregnant with my daughter, my first daughter. She had some, a rare condition that was probably confounded by lineage, toxins, different things. And then, as soon after, two years later, I get pregnant about two years or a year and a half later, I get pregnant with twins. So my body just was at the max. Now the twins are, About 18 months old. It was like in 2016. July 1st, I believe, is when I got my implants out. So I'm coming on like I'm coming up on my anniversary for, six years of having them out. Hi. Know that what was happening was I had a immense brain fog. Like I remember my rock bottom moment being me looking, searching for my phone with my phone's flashlight. And that was when it was like, holy shit, you are so sick. your brain like the thinking, The stress. my husband would come home from work and I was barely managing to keep my eyes open at like 5, 6 30 at night. And, and it was taking its toll on our marriage. I had zero libido. I didn't tell him this, but I thought maybe I was dying of cancer or something, and. I was dying in inside and there was, I finally started going to a, naturopathic doctor who was doing the blood work and combining the western medicine and eastern medicine, and my adrenals were shot. My blood pressure was like really low and, you know, She was very concerned about that. And I remember the lab coming back, I think it was the CD five, I forget the name of the test, but the levels of a normal immune system or immune response were like in the 300 s and I had a score of 22, so like zero immune system. So my, all of my resources in my body were like attacking those damn implants. And then, Further along in my journey in 2017, I learned that I have Lyme and co-infections. I mean, and when you have zero immune system because of the implants, and I don't care who you are and I'm gonna, this is a harsh truth, I'm just gonna name it because I do know that people will go through breast cancer and then they get implants right after. And I know that's gotta be such a tough, tough, tough, Decision because I think they are notifying women of the risks. Now I think they have to, I think they've been sued enough that they're maybe warning these ladies, but my harsh. Moment of truth is that I don't care who you are, how clean your diet is, because it's like we have toxins all around us. There is no escaping toxins in this world. So putting foreign body in your body, it, your immune system's gonna tank at some point. cuz you're gonna have emotional stress, that's just part of life. You're gonna have traumas that's part of life. You're gonna have ebbs and flows, whatever. It's not a question of if you're gonna get something called breast implant illness, cuz they do have a label for it. Now. I joined a group, when it was only like 900 women in this group on Facebook when I sort of had my aha awareness that perhaps my breast implants were really like contributing to my shitty existence and health and feeling like I was dying. And I joined the group and I just read all the symptoms and all the gnarly stuff. So I had a lot of joint pain. I was tired all the time. The fatigue, the brain fog, like insane. and also it was like cranky, one of my co-infections, Bartonella. I was just like an angry rageful, like inside. I'd wanna rage out on the kids and I didn't, but I had stored so much rage and anger. My poor liver and gallbladder, those are the organs associated with those emotions. But if you think about it, that's like filtering out the toxins. So I was at capacity in my body, physically, spiritually, mentally, all the being this I was tapped out anyways, soon after I became aware and. April of 2016, I had to research people that would take these out, but do it properly. You don't just take out the implants without taking out the whole capsule and you try to take out the whole capsule intact so you're not leaving anything behind. But I had seen somebody in Colorado who was like, oh, like you could pop those because they're filled with saline and you'd be fine. And I was like, holy cow, this guy is bananas, nuts. And I actually wrote him an email later. Explaining to him, it was just so crazy to like that they had to have a support group and that so much of the paradigm in, in with plastic surgery. Um, that's the cash cow. No doctor or or surgeon's gonna admit that they're toxic if that's the cash cow. Right. Uh, follow the money always. And I do end up finding. the unicorn. The unicorn. He, I found him before he got like, super in demand. I found the guy that was removing, breasts, or just for cancer reasons. He was like a very highly skilled guy. I knew that he was going to be able to remove my capsules at that time when I met him in. I think it was like May or June, I had my consult and I flew out to California. His name is, Dr. Chung, and he is he's like my little angel. I don't think he would, he's so popular now. I would love to have him on my podcast, but I remember going in to him. I had all also had a consultation with a surgeon across the parking lot. He was in a different building, but super close and he was gonna charge me like, 12 k to remove them and then he didn't even know anything. Like it was, it just, it was not a good vibe and he was all about the money. Then I go to Dr. Chung and he sat with me and he looked at my labs. He looked at my blood work and he was like, you know, cuz the, you know what was on the table? It was like planted as a seed in the back of my mind was Lyme disease because my naturopath was like, wow, these, this number Jen for your immune system is so low. I am concerned you might have like Lyme disease or some sort of autoimmune immune condition. And then, he looks at that and he is like, listen, Annette, he was not subscribing to breast implant illness. Like I told him about the group, whatever. I wasn't the first person that had gone to him. So he's, he had done it before and, There were so many signs. he went to Hoffman, to states high school. I went to Schaumburg High School, shout out to Schaumburg. Saxons. I grew up in Illinois and there were, and like he knew all about the childhood. I felt like that was a really good sign for me. I don't, I look first these universal, like the universe, like God's signs, like this is the right way. I'm always checking in. and then he looked at me and was like, listen, There's no chance you're gonna heal from Lyme disease if you have these in you. And I knew he was my guy when he like named that. And then we scheduled it and, my mom, Saint Lee and my sister, I stayed at her house in Manhattan Beach her part of the time. my mom flew out and we stayed near the surgical center. It was an outpatient center and then, I think my mom had trauma from how gnarly it was when I got them in that she was like, she was expecting that. but. My body, when I got them out, I was like up around driving no pain medication. Like two days later I feel like a million bucks. I mean, I had the, if you follow people, if you type into Instagram or anyway, like breast implant illness, like you're gonna see a bunch of women that are documenting their journey. And I know it's more and more popular with some of these, stars that are these Hollywood celebrities that are coming out about it. And I had these drapes. So you like, you have to wear these Can you shower with them? I had to drain the fluid cuz it was a lot, I had to have a certain amount of drainage, or limited drainage before I could fly back to Colorado to be with the family. And but my healing after that was like amazing. Like my body was like, ah, okay. I started to slowly get my, energy back. I was still going to the, Nd the naturopathic doctor supporting my adrenals, doing some detox stuff, some cats claw. So basically when you have those you, you form biofilm, you have horrible gut health, parasites, you name it. It's kind of the whole like shebang when your immune system tanks and basically I get back home, I am healing. And I have a friend, or a friend who is dealing with,, neurological Lyme disease in her children. And we've been hanging out, we're taking, some coursework, some intuitive coursework together. And basically she clued me in that, even though I was feeling much better, but I was still having these days where I was super tired, chronic fatigue, like maybe. Five times, like five times out of the month, but, not feeling a hundred percent. and she was like, Jen, it's possible you have Lyme disease. And she also was noticing rashes and things on the, my kids that. behind their knees and things. I know my son Liam had eczema and it was just, there was so much going on there, the biomedical stuff, that I was finally had enough of reserves to look at that. So I took something called, it was a urine test through DNA connections, and it is supposed to be one of the, Most accurate tests. So I was fully expecting that to come back negative. I was really attributing everything to those breast implants, even though in hindsight it is so obvious that I probably, the Lyme disease makes sense now that I know more about Lyme disease and co-infections and the symptoms and the signs and growing up in Illinois and all the things. Anyway, So I get the test back and it names that I have, lime and I have Bartonella Co-infection and I have Basia. I don't even know if I'm saying that right. So I've heard people say it so many different ways. I'm gonna call it Babs. I had Babs and I will say for everybody, this is why Bio Frequency Medicine is where it's at because, I pass Lyme and co-infections onto my children. You do that, it's much like a sexually transmitted disease. In fact, you can pass Lyme disease through intercourse and sexual encounters. People don't seem, the CDC will not admit that. I'm not even gonna go down that rabbit hole with our, yeah. Not gonna go down there. there is a book called Bitten, and you should all read that, especially if you're into, if you like, tinfoil hats and being, quote unquote the conspiracy theorist, although they've never been able to, prove this one wrong or disprove this as being a conspiracy. So there's something to this. Anywho, I then find, somebody who specializes in art muscle testing, automatic response. Testing, is that the acronyms or muscle testing? Actually, she's, she's Dr. Klinghardt train. Dr. Klinghardt is like the German doctor. That's like a, like legendary for the Lyme community. Such a great human. Love that man. any who I start to address through muscle testing in vials, bio frequency. The different things that my body wants to heal. And the intention was always that I couldn't go balls out because I had three children at the time and whatnot. So I couldn't go balls out with my Lyme disease and killing it and or resolving it or whatever. Basically getting back to homeostasis. I couldn't go balls out. And then once I started to heal, then we started to test the kids and. I will say that at the same time, I was on the journey of speech, traditional speech therapy with my twins, and they were not making any progress with speech therapy. So disappointing because that's my profession, I'm trained traditionally as a speech therapist, and that's partly why I pivoted with my career. they just, it was biomedical for them. There was Swiss cheese development because of neuro inflammation, because of inflammation from toxins that come from scheduled things, scheduled injectables and all the things. It was not just like one thing, it was compounded into the perfect storm and So a big component of how I started to heal was finding the bio frequency medicine, that muscle testing, gosh, love my, docs that do applied kinesiology, love the docs that are due in the vials. all the chiropractors and neurological chiropractors. they're just, they've been instrumental in our healing journey and, and neuro emotional technique, that emotional stuff and also, Getting in tune with my own unique frequency and intuition and having seniority over anything that's foreign because of now I do a lot of metaphysical healing and things, and I noticed that it's about beliefs. It's about unresolved emotions and trauma. It all matters, and the physical health and being a terrible, no good host for fungus and bacteria, and. Viruses, multiple viruses and, mold and all the things biofilm. So it's been a wild journey and I can say that the people I'm going to be interviewing, have been instrumental in my. Healing journey. And then who knows, there might be a season two where I am just going rogue and using vibrational frequency and just inviting strangers onto my podcast. I don't know. We'll see. but yes, the breast implant illness is real. and not to come from a fear. Frequency, because certainly you might have breast implants and they're not pulling you outta homeostasis yet. That's the only thing that I will say is, yes, you might be able to transmute that energy or it's not gonna impact you. I just think that once you compound these layers of toxins that are just all around us in our food and our water, in our soil, in our air, Or if you have an emotional stressor or trauma, it just might start to take its toll. And so be looking, if you have breast implants and you have gnarly, symptoms that in your labs come back normal. Like just be, be, just be like red flag or remember this podcast. And please, if you're enjoying the content of this podcast, please leave a review. A five star one. I'm just gonna name that, just leave a review and also share this with the people that could benefit from hearing the information. So thank you and I hope you'll stay well and keep, going after healing from within so that your external can have that rippling healing, higher vibrational effect. Thank you.

PJ McNerney: 24:10

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