A short YouTube interview in which Dr. Robert Whitfield asks a patient about initial Breast Implant Illness (BII) symptoms. The patient describes progressive fatigue, brain fog, and persistent nerve pain in neck and back that she initially attributed to postpartum changes; she tried self-care (ice, cold plunge) without improvement and awaited explant surgery, which she reports improved her condition.
So when you had the symptoms, maybe for the audience. Share like, initial symptoms that you experienced so that everybody listening can understand. Like, they can creep up on you, I think, a little bit quickly. And they get assigned to. You're tired because you're a mom, or your little ones are stressing you out, or you're not sleeping. And to be fair, obviously, all those things will play a role in how each of us feels. But moms in particular, I feel like this is a very common thing. I get told, like, they start feeling fatigue or they start feeling unwell, and it's immediately signed into, you know, childbearing, Right?
And I feel like that is what I did in my brain. I was like, oh, this is postpartum. My hormones are tanked. I'm fatigued. I have brain fog. But then I started getting a lot of nerve problems up my neck and my back and everything I could do, like, it would not go away. I was getting in the ice. I was doing cold plunge. I was doing all of the things, and I just felt like nothing was improving. And I had already talked to you around this time, and I knew that we were doing surgery, but it was, you know, eight months out, and so it was just getting to the point of having my explant. And I knew that I would feel better, which I have. But I also think a lot of the BII symptoms I didn't even realize I had until I came to you and I had a conversation with you.
