A patient describes losing weight and dropping clothing sizes after breast implant removal. Dr. Robert Whitfield explains the body sheds retained fluid and inflammation around implants, with most patients losing about 10 lb in the first three months, primarily from the abdomen and trunk.
Her eyes are just so white. Like, you look alive. And I've always been about a size 4 or 6, but when I had my explant, it was just like. The inflammation just came out of my body, and I was like, a.02.
So
everyone was like, what? You're so skinny. And I'm like, I'm not doing a thing. It was just the inflammation,
right? Yeah. I think what happens is the. You know, the body's holding on to the. The fluid, and then whether it's a. A few weeks or a couple months, I've always given that range of, you know, the first three months, I see people lose like this. We'll just say £10.
Yes.
And it's really just fluid.
Mm.
I mean, nobody's losing muscle mass. They're not losing, you know, fat or. It's not any of that. It's just fluid. To me. It's just moving mostly out of the, you know, the abdominal or the. Like, the trunk area in general, because people just hold on to a bunch of inflammation that way. Yeah.
Yeah,
for sure. That
was. That was really crazy for me because I was like, whoa. And then I started noticing, and my friend that had an explant with you, I think she had it two years prior to me.
