Short spoken excerpt (YouTube #shorts) by Robert Whitfield MD arguing that breast implant illness (BII) is more complex than the common community claim that removal (explantation) uniformly cures symptoms. The speaker warns against two harmful reactions: medical gaslighting and an oversimplified dogma that if explantation doesn't resolve symptoms the patient must be mentally ill.
I appreciate everything you're saying so much. I wish I could put a megaphone to you and get that out there because even within the breast implant illness community there are some pretty unhelpful positions that can be taken that, you know, just like we are aware that there can be medical gaslighting that's unhelpful to a woman. There's another thing that's occurring in this community which is, you know, this oversimplification, this dogma that it's quite simple. Breast implants make you sick, you explant, you're better done. And I think that's equally unhelpful. I really do. And while that may be the case and some people might experience that for a number of complex reasons that happen to align for her and her body and her life, it is not one size fits all. And so to have that kind of oversimplification, I have even been told that some women are told it's very simple. Implants make you sick, you explant, you're better. If you're not better, you're mentally unwell. And that just makes me so alarmed and.
