Episode 74: ENCORE: How Long Does Breast Explant Surgery and Recovery Take?

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Dr. Rob Whitfield, the board certified plastic surgeon.

Specializing in explant surgery.

Breast implant illness is a topic that is not often talked enough about, especially in medical community, but is something that affects many women. In this podcast I'll be discussing the latest research, treatment options and personal stories of women who have undergone explant surgery in an effort to heal breast implant illness. In this podcast, we'll explore the symptoms of breast implant illness and delve into the latest surgical techniques for explantation and the recovery process. Whether you are currently experiencing breast implant illness or are considering explant surgery, this podcast is a valuable resource for anyone.

Looking to take control of their health and wellness.

So let's dive in. Before we get started today, I wanted.

To tell you about a way you can speed your healing and to begin.

Reverse aging in your body.

Reducing inflammation is especially important for women with breast implant illness. In fact, one of the most important pre explant surgery steps we take is to get rid of as much inflammation.

In the body as possible.

So I've created a special inflammation support bundle to give you everything you need to reduce inflammation as quickly as possible. Don't let inflammation hold you back. Visit drrobsolutions.com now and grab the inflammation support bundle today again, you can get it@drrobsolutions.com hey, it's Dr. Robert Whitfield and.

Welcome to my Breast Implant Illness podcast. Today we're going to talk about recovery and so how long does recovery take after explant surgery, which obviously is paramount to everybody when they come in to visit with us. And it really depends on the nature of how you start, how diligent you are about our program and what combination, if combination of techniques is going to be performed to help you get your surgical result. So undergoing explant surgery for breast implant illness is obviously very different than if someone came in and said hey, I just don't want my reconstruction or I don't want my augmentation anymore or if I had a capturing contracture and they were asymptomatic. So we'll take the breast implant illness situation because it's a little bit more difficult in terms of what does it look like in terms of aftercare, if you will. So it really starts preoperatively starting on our heart program, holistic accelerated recovery and and what we're looking at is identifying your genetic predisposition to immune problems. So if your immune pathways don't work well, we need to optimize those. So we do genetic testing for that it's a saliva test. It's very simple to do. Turnaround time is a couple months normally. So that's something we need to start right away if we're going to have that as part of your plan. I work diligently to identify toxicity, so that's done through a urine test, a total toxicity test, and there's another urine test for inflammation. So those are really. We can hone down in on what things we need to optimize in your diet, your lifestyle, maybe your home environment, your work environment, maybe you're in mold. And we need to carefully consider options around optimizing your air quality, work environment, home environment. So we'll look at that carefully. And then diet obviously plays a key role in all of this. If you can't eat and absorb your nutrients, you can't recover easily. So optimizing your diet, examination of your food sensitivities and how you absorb through the food through your GI tract and ultimately create elimination through your stool, seeing if you have bacterial or fungal overgrowth or parasitic overgrowth, what balance is there? Do you have leaky gut? Do you have a high secretory IGA level? And then looking at your blood work and your hormone balance, because hormone balance has got to be optimized in order to recover. Women have really high levels of cortisol sometimes and estrogen as well, and these can really prolong recovery. I look carefully at estrogen, progesterone, testosterone. We optimize those levels. We have supplements that help as well.

We'll get back to this show in a moment, but I wanted to share something that I think can really help you. You might not be aware, but part of my work as an innovator in the cosmetic surgery space is to create products that will give my patients the best possible outcomes and restore their health.

As quickly as possible.

I can't tell you how critical it is for all of my patients to actively work to reduce inflammation in their bodies. We do this through diet and supplementation. In fact, I've created a special inflammation support bundle for my patients and now you can have access to it as well. One of the reasons this bundle is perfect for my patients is that so many of them have pill fatigue. It's just not going to work for them to have a handful of pills.

Each day to reduce inflammation.

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You'll still get the full absorption of.

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So we're looking at all this to really shorten your recovery time. We also use red light therapy in my office. We also use lymphatic massage in my office. We have many clients who use hyperbaric oxygen therapy to enhance their recovery. Taking supplements. As I mentioned, optimizing diet carefully following instructions and staying on track with your diet really limits fluid accumulation by changing, you know, your oncotic pressure, which is the protein content in your blood, so that you go from a leaky phase or catabolic phase after surgery to an anabolic phase or a non leaky phase so that you absorb your fluid, pee it out, your swelling goes down more quickly. And you know, I've done this for many, many years for cosmetic and reconstructive patients. The way we approach it really allows you to recover according to your, your plan that, you know, we create for you. So I want everybody to have it as individualized plan as possible so that it's not just our surgery, it's really you buying into your genetics, your diet, your lifestyle, your environment, your hormone balance to give you the best possible results. And that really decreases your time. If you have a explant and it's above the muscle, that's a one to two week recovery. Behind the muscles, a couple weeks depending on how hard it is to get it out from behind the muscle. You know, the fat transfer patient is going to have more healing because we take fat from areas. So that's why I really emphasize the diet fat massage. Like I said, other clients of mine have used hyper oxygen therapy. We're introducing things all the time to enhance recovery like peptide therapy. We really want you to do as well as possible and recover as efficiently as possible. So please, if you're not seeing me in Austin or virtually in a discovery session, please seek out a very, very qualified explant surgeon to learn about your options and other considerations.

Before we wrap up today, don't forget to head over to the DrRobSolutions.com and pick up the inflammation support bundle. I've put this bundle together after working with thousands of women with breast implant.

Illness who wanted explant surgery.

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Thanks for joining me today. I hope you found the information and stories shared on this podcast helpful and informative. Remember, taking control of your health and wellness is key to recovery from breast implant illness. If you're looking for additional resources and support, be sure to visit our online store, Dr. Rob's Solutions. At DrRobSolutions My Shopify, you'll find a wide range of wellness products and supplements to support your journey to recovery. From specially formulated detox supplements to personalized skincare products, we have everything you need.

To aid your recovery.

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Rob's Solutions today at drobssolutions.com thank you for listening and we'll be back with another episode soon. Remember, you're not alone in this journey and together we can overcome breast implant illness.

Take care.