Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Testing for Autoimmune Disease Hasn't Developed Over the Years

18 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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A YouTube video by Robert Whitfield MD arguing that standard medical tests for autoimmune disease have not meaningfully evolved over decades. He notes that the same tests he saw as a med student remain in use today, cites common labs such as ANA and ESR (sed rate), and describes clinical scenarios where patients with breast implants present with fatigue, muscle and joint pain and abnormal autoimmune labs. The speaker expresses concern that testing practices lag behind other technological progress.

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I will I will tell you, I'm 53 and those tests have not changed since I've been alive. Those are the exact same tests I would have ran when I was a med student or when I was in college. And, you know, the said rate, that's a little frightening because I think we're on the 14th edition of the iPhone already. And I haven't seen a great deal of evolution in allopathic medicine when it comes to testing. And so, all right, you get all these tests done and you have breast implants, you know, for whatever reason, cosmetics, cancer, reconstruction, you have breast implants. And now you're having, you know, concern or your physicians having concern that you have an autoimmune disorder. And these tests are ordered. And we'll, you know, we'll say your ANA is high and your sed rates high and you have all these other things, fatigue, muscle and joint pain.