Breast Implant Illness, Inflammation, and Weight Gain #bii #breastimplantillness #drrobertwhitfield

Does breast implant illness lead to weight gain? Commonly, I see patients who felt either a gradual increase in their weight, or there's been some event that has tipped them into a state where they've just rapidly put on weight. And so, as we try to examine this, once again, the way I consider breast implant illness, I consider it as a. A constellation, obviously, of symptoms that are akin to chronic inflammation. So the implant is one component of this, but it's chronic inflammation. So how did you get from acute inflammation to chronic inflammation? So every time I operate, I cause acute inflammation. I make an incision, I separate tissues, I do the work. And once it's complete, the healing process begins. And we'll say that goes on from an acute inflammatory standpoint for the first week, ish. And then slowly, over time, that abates.