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January 16, 2023
Jessica Thivenin, a former reality TV contestant, complained of chronic pain two years after her buttock implants. Update on these symptoms with Dr. David Picovski, plastic surgeon.
Two years after her placement of buttock implants – which at the time had aroused numerous criticisms from Internet users – Jessica Thivenin revealed to be suffering from unpleasant symptoms. Pain which, according to him, is of muscular or nervous origin.
A muscle or nerve problem
On Snapchat on January 8 and 9, the influencer reassured her subscribers – thinking she was suffering from an infection.
“Little update on my butt, because everyone told me I should go to the clinic, because it might be an infection. So no, I don’t have a buttock infection, nor a prosthesis problem. I think it’s a muscle problem, a nerve problem that’s stuck and actually“, she clarified.
The young mother says she feels pain on the right side of her buttocks. A “pinching” that can echo neuropathic pain, resulting from a lesion or dysfunction of the central nervous system.
“I had had sacral injections with a sports doctor because my pain was lower before. There it is higher. So I’ll make an appointment. But it’s true that it’s a problem that I didn’t have before getting my buttocks prostheses. I don’t know if it can also come from pregnancies, because things can be triggered. But since I had the buttocks and the pregnancy… I don’t know where that came from. During that of Leewane (his daughter, editor’s note), I was in pain“, she further detailed.
If Jessica Thivenin indicates that pregnant she was living “a hell“, the causes of these pains remain unclear for the moment.
Poor acceptance of implants
According to Dr. David Picovski, plastic surgeon, everything suggests “that it is about a bad acceptance of the implants. You need to do an ultrasound or even an MRI to find out more. Perhaps it will be necessary to remove these implants, put in smaller ones and perform lipofilling if necessary. The ideal would even be to remove them and replace them with grease”.
While the vast majority of procedures go without any problems, complications related to surgery can indeed occur. In this case, it is necessary to consult quickly.