Complications from Breast Implants Lead to Low Self-Esteem, Problems with Sex Life

Woman-kind is always striving for some new and exciting way to enhance their beauty. Sure, I'm generalizing, but you know exactly the type of girl I mean. I can't count the number of times my amigas have told me, "If I only had the money, I'd get breast implants." Talking them out of it is always hard, sometimes impossible - but I try anyway, with all of my soul. I speak from only a modest amount of time in the nursing field (I'm a certified nurse aid) when I say that breast implants can ruin your life; but I'm not wrong.

The surgery itself is painful, not to mention costly. And try finding an insurance company that will cover it. Breast implants, within the first three years, typically require additional surgeries (yes, plural): an FDA study, spanning five years, found that most women should "expect at least one complication within the first 3 years."

Percentages from this same study are often used to lull women considering breast implants into a sense of security; such data states that only 7% of women experienced asymmetry (where the breasts look vastly different from one another) and that 'only' 13% required another operation. People sharing this information, however, will no doubt neglect to mention that a staggering number of women dropped out of the case study after receiving implants. The data for these women is entirely unknown, but the percentages were based on the number of women who started initially, which means that any woman with problems after leaving the study is omitted. The number of breast implant complications is much higher than the percentages would lead you to believe, but the figures cannot be adjusted to represent this unknown factor.