A recorded conversation led by Robert Whitfield MD exploring emotional consequences and long-term considerations of cosmetic procedures, especially breast implants. Speakers recount feelings of guilt and shame for having chosen implants (often at a young age), emphasize the need to plan decades ahead (post-children, aging, into later life), and note that the topic draws skepticism that participants are prepared to address.
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There's also a guilt and a shame of the person who got this, because you do feel like. And I felt like this. There's like, I did this to myself. I implanted myself. This was my decision. And there's like, kind of like an underlying guilt where you're like, how could I do this to myself in the first place? But what I've realized is, at 18 years old, when I got this, no one could have convinced me otherwise. You could have told me all the symptoms. It was like, that's when I. And that's the kind of person that I just am in general. And I think a lot of really young girls are like this. They're like, I'm doing this. This is what I'm doing. I don't care. But here's what I would ask people to consider. What is the plan? Meaning, what is the plan in 10 years? What is the plan after you have kids? What is the plan when you're 50 and you have a different skin texture? What's the plan when you're 70? That's what I think people need to start thinking about.
What is the. I mean, so if this subject matter falls in the realm of controversial, which, you know, we're no, you know, strangers to that realm, what are the. What are the things you get pushback for or people like yourself get pushed back for?
Let him pull out his scroll.
Well, because I try to understand, like you said, there's always skeptics, right? And there's probably people listening here that are skeptical, saying, hey, okay, you know, what's this guy talking about? How do you respond to those skeptics?
Yeah, they should have never invited me to the meeting if they didn't want me to figure out the problem. I was invited a long time ago to be a vice chair on the committee for breast implant illness.
