Robert Whitfield MD explains why some patients with breast implants experience systemic symptoms despite negative medical workups. Many report improvement after explantation, and the FDA now acknowledges these symptoms can be implant-related.
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.
