Robert Whitfield MD discusses breast implant illness, focusing on patients whose symptoms like hair loss, joint pain, and rashes were dismissed by other doctors. He emphasizes trusting patients' own understanding of their bodies when deciding on treatment.
Part of it was being minimized or rejected or demeaned by maybe an originating plastic surgeon who told them it was in their head. And then I started to see commonalities amongst patients and it wasn't simply brain fog or symptoms that might mimic more psychiatric type of symptoms. There was genuine hair loss, there were skin rashes, joint pain. I've had patients come in with pulmonary conditions and listening to them and giving them the opportunity to explain what they felt in their gut was going on, I started to operate on them. And frankly, nobody knows your body better than you.
