Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Uncovering Breast Implant Illness: Symptoms You Need to Know!

22 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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A clinician-led YouTube discussion defining breast implant illness (BII) and enumerating common symptoms and affected systems. Dr. Robert Whitfield describes BII as a constellation of subjective complaints clinicians see since about 2016, including neurologic symptoms ("brain fog", lightheadedness, tinnitus, visual and sound sensitivity), ENT complaints (dry eyes, throat catch, swallowing difficulty), musculoskeletal pain (muscle and joint pain), and gastrointestinal/absorptive problems; the segment emphasizes the diagnostic challenge clinicians face given the variety of nonspecific symptoms.

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What is breast implant illness and how might one know whether or not they have it?
Sure. I mean we got exposed to it in 2016 with a cancer patient. So most of what people experience, and I don't envy the practitioners trying to figure this out when they sit across the table is people will say they have neurologic symptoms like central nervous system, like brain fog, which you know, for everybody this can be short term memory loss, you forgot where you put your keys or you left the groceries in the car or something like that. You can have lightheadedness, ringing in the ears. You can have visual changes, light sensitivity, can also be sound sensitive or all sorts of ENT type issues where you have problems with dry eyes, maybe a catch in the throat or difficulty swallowing. And many patients will go on to have extremity symptoms, muscle pain, joint pain, they'll have GI symptoms. I know you've done a lot of shows and are interested in gut health. They have problems with a lot of absorptive problem.