Dr. Robert Whitfield outlines five symptom categories of breast implant illness: fatigue, joint and muscle pain, memory loss, gastrointestinal issues, and persistent skin rashes. He notes that rashes often appear late and emphasizes how patients respond to steroid treatment as a diagnostic clue.
Can you kind of dive into a little bit more for our audience on kind of what the typical symptom, uh, presentation for breast implant illnesses?
Yeah, the top 5 things are always going to be relatively the same. They're going to be fatigue, and then somebody's going to complain either of, you know, joint pain, muscle pain, or shortness of breath, or chest pain. Or they're going to have memory loss. There's going to be like those things, and then they're going to have a host of gut problems. Gut problems are just like— they're too long to talk about, to be frank. Um, then the rashes are more of the end game. So when you have someone come to you has a rash that won't go away despite going to the derm and getting the 3 things derms get, which is antibiotics, steroids, and both. Yeah, the, the point of that is— and I have these talks all the time— I'm like, did anybody give you a MedDrol dose pack, or did anybody put you on a larger dose steroid? And if they did, did all the symptoms go away?
