Dr. Robert Whitfield warns people preparing for breast explant surgery to limit time in Facebook groups and social media. He describes staying up all night reading comments and says while some useful information exists online, much is negative or based on individual surgeon experiences and can harm your preparation.
Starts to just really consume your life and you can go down the rabbit hole of going on the Facebook groups, which I don't recommend, and it really consumes your life. It's one thing about my journey I noticed in the beginning when I first booked my explant with you, I started to go down the rabbit hole, stay up all night on the Facebook groups reading comments, and I feel like that's probably the worst thing that you could do for preparing for an explant. There's a lot of good information, but there's a lot of bad information too. And a lot of people will voice how they feel based on an experience that they had with a surgeon. And so I try to tell everyone who's getting ready for explant surgery, don't spend hours on those Facebook groups. Don't spend hours going down the rabbit hole on social media. When you open up that gate to social media, a lot of negative support will come into.
