Robert Whitfield MD discusses why patients are choosing breast explant surgery and what symptoms they report. The conversation covers whether explants are necessary and the range of experiences patients have after the procedure.
Okay, so I'm curious because breast explants is a huge trendy topic right now. And so I have so many questions because people ask me on a daily basis, followers ask, you know, like what I know about it, if I know people to recommend things like that. And so.
Sure.
Let's just start at the basics, though. Are breast explants needed for every person, or is it just that some. Some have a reaction or some get an infection or some it affects their health?
Sure. So in 2018, in the run up to the breast implant hearings of 2019, we were trying to kind of wrap our heads around what is all the meaning through just the social media environment was it was becoming more and more prominent with what I just told you. I. I would see these patients come in and they'd have complaints, and they'd be pretty varied complaints. There'd be problems with memory loss, term to brain fog. There'd be problems with fatigue, a lot of chronic inflammatory symptoms, a lot of problems with digestion, pain in muscles and joints, and sometimes they'd have shortness of breath and palpitations, and it was a really broad number of symptoms.
