A short YouTube interview (#shorts) featuring patient Erica and surgeon Robert Whitfield MD. Erica recounts worsening physical pain during Pilates, a frightening near-drop incident where she nearly dropped her daughter Eliana due to shaking, and new-onset heart palpitations. After seeing similar stories on Instagram and hearing of a friend who had implants removed by Dr. Whitfield, Erica sought cardiology evaluation and then made an appointment with Dr. Whitfield to discuss implant removal.
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I'd go to Pilates, and, you know, I wouldn't really even do Pilates because she was like, Erica, like. And I'm like, I know I'm hurting. So she'd do stretches and try and make me feel better. But it was one day that I got home and I was with my baby and my daughter Eliana, and I bent over to get her out of her crib, and I almost dropped her.
Oh, I.
Almost dropped her. I get emotional talking about it because I was shaking. And I called my husband, and I'm like, please get home now. Like, I can't even carry her. I don't know what is going. Going on. I'm. I feel like I'm falling apart. And I also had heart palpitations.
Yeah.
So I made an appointment with the cardiologist. I'm like, something is wrong. I knew I wasn't dying, but there was something wrong. And then I started seeing more and more stories on Instagram. A really good friend of mine had her implants removed with you. So the more I read and the more videos I saw people sharing their story, I checked all the boxes, and that led me to make an appointment with you all.
And that, you know, it's usually kind of what you said was a key factor, and that's by having patience on and you sharing your story and in front of your audience and us sharing your story, it just is going to help somebody just reflect on their situation and.
