Robert Whitfield MD discusses how some patients with breast implants experience systemic symptoms that standard medical tests don't explain, and how those symptoms resolve after implant removal. The FDA has acknowledged this connection.
And if you trust patients to inform you that something's wrong or, you know, and they've gone already for general medical workups and endocrine workups and rheumatologic workups and infectious disease workups, and they're all coming up negative. And then after you explain them, their symptoms improve or resolve. Maybe not 100% of them, and maybe the mechanisms behind their symptoms may not be identical in every patient, but I began to appreciate that there was something there. Now we know. At this point, the FDA acknowledges systemic symptoms related to breast implants and resolution of symptoms in some patients with explantation.
