A patient with Hashimoto's had breast implants removed in August but still has severe arm, leg, and knee pain. Dr. Robert Whitfield argues doctors miss the real causes by focusing only on implant removal and basic blood work, ignoring detoxification capacity, gut health, hormonal balance, and exposure history.
when I read this YouTube comment that says, I have Hashimoto's and had an explant last August and have been suffering pain in my arms, legs, and knees. I thought if I had an explant I would feel better. However, I feel terrible. Now that's an extremely disappointing thing to read. I've devoted so much time and effort to explaining this problem and being, uh, that I'm on tonight, and this person is— has talked about this. I'm going to say the reason I'm so passionate about this is, is that particular comment on YouTube. You can go to my YouTube channel and read this comment. It's very disturbing to me because it's not just about taking implants out of patients, about evaluating patients and looking at them and helping them understand, you know, genetically how they detoxify, looking at their tox burden, looking at their gut health, looking at sensitivities they have, especially things in their diet, looking at their hormonal balance. It's not just a blood biomarker thing. Looking at their travel history, trying to understand if they have been exposed to parasites. I think that's a really underappreciated problem.
