Dr. Robert Whitfield describes implant illness, a condition causing joint aches, tremors, and muscle pain in some patients. He discusses a woman who had breast implants for 40 years before developing symptoms, and notes the difficulty in diagnosing the condition without clear clinical markers or pre-operative warning signs.
I'm surprised you found me because I've been blocked and censored on a lot of platforms now because of talking about this. You can have really a lot of aches and pains in the joints and in the muscles. You can have like tremors or vibration symptoms.
All stemming from inflammation.
From inflammation. I saw somebody, uh, yesterday in my office and they had had implants for 40 years.
What? The same implant? Yeah. For 40 years?
Yeah.
And after 40 years they decide to come see you?
Well, they have a little pain. I went back through all the notes and studies that we had available and I did, you know, all of her consultation preoperatively and her examination, and there was nothing in any of that that would have given us a clue that she had a—
So, Dr. Whitfield MD, I found you because you are the explant guy. You got known for this, talking about explant illness and, well, implant illness, more to say, and all the things that go wrong in a woman's body. I, I
