Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

What Other Diseases Can Mimic BII Symptoms?

30 Jun 2022 · 1 min

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Robert Whitfield MD discusses how Lyme disease and toxic mold exposure produce symptoms that look like Breast Implant Illness, making diagnosis harder. He describes a patient who improved after explantation but later tested positive for Lyme disease. Doctors need to check for mold in patients' homes and workplaces, since cognitive symptoms can make people forget their exposures.

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Lyme disease and toxic mold exposure.

Over the course of three months.

Lyme disease (the patient was found to have Lyme disease and began treatment).

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BII is commonly consistent with symptom wise Lyme disease. It also has overlap with toxic mold exposure. So I recently had a client who had very, very significant cognitive decline, had definitely issues with their breast implants, complicated gut health issues. So we did her explant and over the course of three months she got market improvement and then she was tested extensively for other issues like mold and Lyme disease was found to have Lyme disease. So she's in treatment for that now. So these conditions can be superimposed. It can be very confusing to providers and clinicians of all backgrounds and levels. So I am constantly looking and trying to pay attention to both their environmental exposures at work and at home to see if mold plays a role. Sometimes patients with cognitive decline or memory loss that we see in BI mold and Lyme disease, they can't remember the history enough to give you the clues that would lead you down that path. So you just have to have an index of suspicion.