A patient describes dramatic visible improvement weeks after explant surgery, crediting before-and-after photos for documenting the change. Robert Whitfield MD discusses how foreign objects in the body trigger chronic inflammation that explantation can relieve.
That was. That was really crazy for me because I was like, whoa. And then I started noticing. And my friend that had an explant with you, I think she had it two years prior to me. Four years.
Yeah.
She was the one who. The day before my explant, she said, take a picture. So take a picture before so you can look at the difference. A month or two months, Which I did. And I'm like, I am so happy. Lisa told me to do that because, you know, you see yourself in the mirror and, you know, you don't notice it. People are like, were telling me, but when I saw that, I'm like, oh, my Lordy, I look so different.
Right? It is. Yeah. And, you know, I don't. I probably don't do as good a job with those kind of. Right. We used to do a lot more, like right before we go back photos, and we probably should be doing more of those so that we have a few of those that are really striking like that. Because it does happen, you know, pretty routinely.
Yes. I mean, it's just crazy what having a foreign object inside your body will do to you.
Yeah. Over time, definitely a lot of chronic inflammation, for sure.
