Robert Whitfield MD describes a patient named Shiloh whose strep and staph levels dropped significantly one year after explant surgery. Her musculoskeletal problems, including ropey muscle texture and shoulder pain, gradually resolved over about a year to eighteen months.
About one year after the explant surgery.
About a year and a half after the explant surgery.
So Shiloh had very high levels of staph and strep just in general in her, in her body when they're tested. And now, I mean we've done a lot of testing before and afterward. And her levels, about a year after the explants, her strep level was substantially lower and so was her staff. I'm not sure how much of that was propagated from this leakage, but I can, I can definitely see the trend of it trending down, you know, a year, year and a half after the explant surgery. She also had major muscle contractions in her back and her right side specifically. And I would say about a year and a half was when I really started noticing that texture change from a very ropey type of sensation. So all the muscles and you know, the back, the erectors, etc and rhomboids by the, by the back scapula were extremely ropey. Like you could rub your hand and just feel like there was ropes under there. About a year and a half it just slowly started changing and now it's smooth. Good muscle tone, not ropey sensation. But those, I think from what I can ascertain those, the leak that she had completely changed that right sided chest cavity and even into the back and caused severe problems, I mean shoulder issues every day up into the lower cervical mid back. I mean it was pretty bad musculoskeletal symptoms.
