Aaron Hartman, MD reviews health concerns tied to breast implants, including an FDA black-box warning and links to autoimmune symptoms, chronic fatigue, and fibromyalgia. Implants arrived in the U.S. in 1961, showing how decades can pass before device risks surface.
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There's an FDA approved medical product that's been associated with a type of lymphoma, and black box warning was put on it in 2021. In 2022, another concern came out about it related to a squamous cell cancer. It's associated with autoimmune issues, chronic fatigue, fibro, and strangely enough, you see more reactions of people that are hypermobile with mast cell activation syndrome, dysautonomia in pots. A whole bunch of things related to this medical device. What am I talking about? I'm talking about breast implants. Breast implants were first introduced in the United states back in 1961. 62. Some concerns came out in the 1990s about them, and just now we're looking at 40, 60 years later. They now get a black box warning. The reason I'm talking about this is this is how long it takes for things that come out in the market to.