A Mississippi woman who claims she developed “breast implant illness” just weeks after undergoing surgery said that at the height of her symptoms she even contemplated committing suicide. “Within three months I was dealing with anxiety and depression,” Erika Rae Ritschard, a mother of three, told SWNS. But things changed in November 2017, when she stumbled across a Facebook group dedicated to breast implant issues. “One day I was typing ‘breast implant’ into Facebook and breast implant illness came up,” she told SWNS. While the FDA has previously alerted doctors of a rare type of cancer linked to breast implants, it says current evidence does not support a connection between the implants and connective tissue disorders or reproductive issues.

Source: Fox News March 11, 2019 13:52 UTC