Episode 65: ENCORE: Can Breast Implants Cause Neurological Symptoms?

Foreign Dr.

Rob Whitfield, the board certified plastic surgeon.

Specializing in explant surgery.

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Welcome to my Breast Implant Illness podcast. Today we're going to discuss can breast.

Implants cause Neurologic symptoms? So I see quite a few patients who come in with complaints of brain fog, but on questioning they have other symptoms. Headache, sound sensitivity, light sensitivity. And you know, you have to work with them to try to figure out what's causing these types of symptoms. And these are to me like signs of neural inflammation. And then in their extremities they may have nerve pain, arm pain, or I'm sorry, pain that shoots down their arm or in their legs or in their feet. And there have been numerous patients over the last six years with those types of complaints. And so when I hear the first part where someone has really headache, light sensitivity, sound sensitivity, brain fog, I really think of neural inflammation, but I immediately think of environmental toxicity. And has this person been exposed to environmental toxins that further complicate neural inflammation like mycotoxins or mycotoxins come from toxic mold exposure. And many, many cases of this exist in Texas and Florida and California and Georgia. Just environmentally you can be exposed to this moist environments near rivers, obviously near the ocean lakes, there may be high mold counts in your area and you just don't really know.

You're not aware of.

It happens a lot in rural areas as well. I have a lot of folks who farm and, or on ranches and, or you know, old, old buildings like that may exist in those areas. And that kind of inflammation further is complicated by having obviously a breast implant which can create its own large amounts of inflammation. And so, for instance, today I took care of a patient who had very, very large textured implants. And textured implants as, as we've discussed on this show in the past, are most closely associated with breast implant associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma. So incredibly stimulating to the immune system and causing obviously a lot of inflammation.

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Now if someone had a pre existing neurologic condition, this could be certainly worsened by this in conjunction with like I had already mentioned a mold exposure, so could be an additive thing. Obviously I know and as we've discussed, breast implants can be responsible for inflammation and these other disease processes can result in further inflammation and really give you neurologic symptoms as we described. So when I have those, how do I work someone up and try to clarify exactly what's going on? So that's where a Lot of our testing, our toxicity testing specifically and inflammation testing comes in. Those are usually urine tests. And we try to start Everybody on my Dr. Rob Solutions Immune support bundle because we want to stimulate your system to excrete those toxins in the urine. Then they'll show up, then we'll have a better idea of how to characterize and develop your treatment plan. We also, because of my interest in understanding brain fog as it relates to breast implant illness, perform our own EEGs with WAVI Medical in our office. And we've seen some interesting examples of changes in EEGs. And we're trying to really clarify, you know, in each individual, how are they managing their inflammation and what are the signs and symptoms of their specific inflammatory processes and if they have neural inflammation, what can we do to help them? Now if they have all these things and they have implants, we have to develop a working plan to help them resolve this inflammation. And certainly one component, like I discussed with my my patient today, is removing the device. And I try to remove everything, always intact, a hundred percent. I don't drain patients. We send everything off for examination and do quantitative PCR next gen sequencing with MicroGen DX out of Lupic, Texas to evaluate for any kind of bacteria, fungus, mycobacterium. But toxic mold exposure is different and that has to be treated differently, a different detox. But if you were just to do the mold detox, you may not be able to reduce the inflammation completely. And if you were just to do an explant and not address mold or not look for mold, then you certainly wouldn't be caring for the patient completely and helping them on their healing journey. So what we always are trying to do is be as comprehensive as possible. Given my experience over the last six years with over 1100 explos like these are the things you have to look for and work up to help patients both preoperatively through surgery and then really on their journey after surgery. Thanks for joining me today. I hope you found the information and.

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