Dr. Robert Whitfield discusses whether breast implant illness (BII) causes weight gain, noting he commonly sees patients report gradual or sudden weight increases. He frames BII as a constellation of symptoms akin to chronic inflammation and begins explaining acute versus chronic inflammatory responses.
Does breast implant illness lead to weight gain? Commonly, I see patients who felt either a gradual increase in their weight or there's been some event that has tipped them into a state where they've just rapidly put on weight. And as we try to examine this once again, the way I consider breast implant illness, I consider it as a. A constellation, obviously, of symptoms that are akin to chronic inflammation. So when you have acute inflammation, whether from surgery, like I'm doing all the time now, or if you just stepped off your porch incorrectly and twisted your ankle and sprained it, effector cells that are responsible for creating acute inflammation, which is swelling, there may be redness and then pain.
