Robert Whitfield MD discusses implants across medicine, from cardiac to dental to orthopedic. Patients with breast implants report chronic symptoms including brain fog, headaches, heart palpitations, chest pain, and severe digestive problems, though the condition remains medically contested.
Foreign body and, you know, whether it's, you know, your dental implant or your cardiac implant or. I used to help all the orthopedic surgeons. Anybody can get infection from the implant place. But many times are used for really functional purposes like reconstructing someone's jaw for cancer or replacing a knee joint for osteoarthritis or cancer. I mean, there are all sorts of things that have to be done in the name of keeping someone, you know, mobile or able to eat.
I guess we should probably define what is breast implant illness.
Chronic inflammation exists with or without implants. Most of my patients show up with a laundry list of chronic inflammatory symptoms from head to toe. So neurologically they can have brain fog. Think of headache. They can have light sensitivity, sound sensitivity in the whole ear, nose and throat system, dry eyes, cough, sinusitis. Chronic stuff that has no answers. Heart palpitations, chest pain, shortness of breath, nerve pain in their extremities, tremors. And then the gut is just wildly abnormal. Like everything that's.
Interesting that you say.
