Real accounts
Research tells you what happens on average. It does not tell you what the week after surgery feels like, or how you might feel looking in a mirror. That is what first-person accounts are for.
We have not published any stories yet. We could fill this page today with quotes gathered from public forums, or with composites, and it would look better than an empty section does.
We are not going to. Every account here will come from someone who agreed to it in writing, knowing where it would appear. Anything else is using women’s medical experiences as marketing without asking.
How this will work
- Written consent, always. Nothing publishes without a signed release that says plainly where it will appear and how it may be used.
- Your choice of name. First name, initials, or fully anonymous. We will never publish a surname you have not explicitly approved.
- Edited only for length and clarity. We will not reshape an account to support a conclusion, and you approve the final text before it goes live.
- Withdrawable. Change your mind at any point, for any reason, and we take it down. No explanation required.
- Photographs are separate. Consenting to a written account never implies consent to images. Those require their own release.
Including the ones that go badly
We are specifically interested in accounts that do not fit the arc. If your symptoms did not improve after removal, if you regret it, if the aesthetic result was hard to accept, or if the answer turned out to be something else entirely — those accounts are more useful than another success story, and they are the ones nobody publishes.
A page of uniformly happy endings would misrepresent the evidence. Outcomes vary, and our implications page is explicit that improvement after explant is commonly reported but not established as reliable.
Sharing yours
Write to stories@explanthealth.com. Tell us roughly what you would want to say — there is no form and no word count. We will send the consent document and answer any questions before you commit to anything.
We cannot respond to clinical questions and cannot advise on your case. If that is what you need, please see the contact page, which lists crisis lines, and our medical disclaimer.