Dr. Robert Whitfield describes implant illness as widespread aches, joint pain, and neurological symptoms from systemic inflammation. He recalls a patient with 40-year-old breast implants who developed mild pain with no prior warning signs, making diagnosis difficult since standard exams often miss early indicators.
I'm surprised you found me because I've been blocked and censored on a lot of platforms now because of talking about this. You can have really a lot of aches and pains in the joints and in the muscles. You can have like tremors or vibration symptoms.
All stemming from inflammation.
From inflammation. I saw somebody, uh, yesterday in my office and they had had implants for 40 years.
What? The same implant? Yeah. For 40 years?
Yeah.
And after 40 years they decide to come see you?
Well, they have a little pain. I went back through all the notes and studies that we had available and I did, you know, all of her consultation preoperatively and her examination, and there was nothing in any of that that would have given us a clue that she had a—
So, Dr. Whitfield MD, I found you because you are the explant guy. You got known for this, talking about explant illness and, well, implant illness, more to say, and all the things that go wrong in a woman's body. I