I guess i have got somewhat use to the pain, but mine is not continuously, I am getting weak because of infections caused by the bladder.

my problems with the mesh is somewhat different from yours. What have doctors told you?You did not mention that. I know some doctors after seeing so many , one would not even say anything, after exam, to the mesh, and others gave me no words of what or when they could either trim the mesh or another surgery. One said the mesh was scraping me inside and causing bleeding that was showing in tests that i had an infection, but said i did not have infection, I really got angry because with that doctor that day, infection or what i call infection, was apparent that would not have took a doctor to see , no one seems to want to even give medication during those times of infection , which continuously, that is making me weak, I noticed right after my surgery something was wrong, it didn’t work for 1 thing, at first leakage was not as bad as it was then , it became worse.
a self exam , was when i felt the mesh protruding out in 3 places, and I have pain , but can bare the pain, it is the infections, and i cannot feel urine coming out at all, I can feel when my bladder seems to get full, but sometimes it just lets go. no control. I feel numb in side no pressure at all do i feel as before the surgery, and my worse pain comes in spurts , the pain lasts so severe, the only relief i get is laying down, it lasts sometimes for over an hour , and then gradually stops .

It is not right for women not to have any explanation to what the mesh is doing to their body., and no one has any solutions to either trimming it or removing it.. Will women ever get to ask questions and get some straight answers , it is most cruel to have these infections and given nothing to fight this. I do not understand this at all.
I DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW THE MEDICAL PROFESSION AND THESE COMPANIES CAN BE SO CRUEL TO THE WOMEN THAT SUFFER AND HAVE SUFFERED FOR A LONG TIME.

I would like to have a woman that is not a doctor or nurse , during exam , to hear a doctor say i do not have an infection , when it is apparent. i know the mesh is causing bleeding, scraping inside , but infection is there and can be seen.and not to give me anything is cruel. home remedy is what i have been using , and aspirin for pain, but now my blood is thinning so much from aspirin , .i try to find non aspirin for pain now.

LOOKS LIKE FROM COMMENTS NOT MANY HAVE DOCTORS THAT HAVE ANY ANSWERS, TO HELP.

Most days I can go about my housework, but i am weak. I don’t have a husband , I have to do chores , but i have better days and worse days.

I have feeling around the mesh, as the doctor , put me in very bad pain, that I came off the table, I know he did this on purpose , because he did not want to get involved .
he charged a high price and wanted his money from ins. but showed no mercy to me
as did more than him, but none were as cruel as he was. HE WAS APPARENT ANGRY OF THE COMPLAINTS OF WHAT HIS COLLEAGUES HAVE DONE TO WOMEN AND LIED.

my bladder is so much more out of control since the surgery, i have to change many times during the day and bathe more frequent, and more . but , I don’t know why and what they did that i have no feeling of my bladder emptying. I know when my bladder feels full, I can make it to the bathroom and have no warnings sometimes when i stand to my feet, my bladder either lets go completely, , I have no control sometimes .
but it also effects the bowels ,

It is cruel for doctors and these companies that have not gave any explanations at all, or they get sarcastic with answers, You mentioned the FDA , , i have called them to, to have a woman hang up on me.

WILL WE EVER HAVE ANSWERS ? OR SOLUTIONS? i feel they are waiting so cruelly for us to die, because these infections they know take a toll on people’s lives and health and takes them down.

As one doctor said during examination where infection was apparent , said i didn’t have an infection, she said that the mesh was scraping inside and blood in urine from scraping was showing I had infection, , I said then what is that now that is apparent on the outside that is infection . I am tired of their lies . although I know the mesh protruding out in 3 places is scraping and causing blood in urine, i have enough common sense to know that, but for her to say i had no infection, and gave me nothing or relief for the apparent infection i was having to fight with home remedies was so evil and cruel,

SHE also was still doing the mesh surgery, but gave no hope or solutions to stopping what the doctors did to me. NOTHING!

i am refusing to go to another doctor, until someone can give a name of a doctor that cares and will answer questions and not some , sarcatic remarks .

It is way over due for the companies that put this mesh out to also answer some questions, especailly how long was it tested before putting it out , because if they tested it in any way , they had to know it moves in women and causes pain and suffering and permanent damages .

also the doctors that need to answer to why didn’[t they tell women and warn them of permanent damages before they did the surgery, I know the ones that did mine lied , and 1 spoke of it as a miracle mesh, not as he said in his records and lied , HIS WORDS OF GUARANTEE , THAT IT WOULD STOP BLADDER LEAKAGE , from the bladder dropping . and more lies .that other doctors are lying covering for their colleagues ,

even one permanent damage should have stopped this surgery , immediately, instead of using women for medical research guienea pigs, I would have never volunteered to be used for medical research, BUT ALSO STATES KNOW EVEN MORE THAN THIS.
what about the anti depressants that were used on poor years ago , and even kids, that they now say are causeing birth deformities in babies born, These drugs unknowingly by the kids , were given these drugs , in the 60′s , . SOME ONE EVEN IN GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS,

Going through tests that brought me off the table in pain, to getting money from ins. , to tell me that they could not do anything because they did not do the surgery, Which they knew when the appointment was made what I wqas coming in for, which was to find a solution to stopping the , what i call unusual infection caused and started after this surgery. To one doctor saying i didn’t haved infection , which was very much apparent when being examined , she said it was the mesh that was scraping me inside that was causing blood to be in urine test that was coming back showing infection.
I said what is the apparent out breaki right now tthat you can see? She started in with words that had no sense to them . and my anger with even going to doctors over 300 miles away, still gave nothing for infection , or explanations.

I am getting older and my health has gone down in so many ways since this surgery, I hear of women on this web site , saying they have gone through other surgeries , I don’t feel that I could go through another surgery, but would consider that a doctor could even trim the mesh up , without further damage. but from what I am going through, and knowing my body and how it has affected bowels and more, I feel strongly that the mesh is protruding more than the 3 places , bit even where it cannot be felt or seen. I have questions that have never been answered.

What did these doctors do in surgery that there is no feeling when i have to pee, (being blunt)
I have no feeling, I know my bladder is full, but when i go to the bathroom , I cannot feel urine coming out , no pressure at all, just emptying, and it does not empty all at once, The surgery did not work at all, and bladder leakage is worse than ever.

It is way over due for the companies to answer questions, even to what test were given before they put this mesh out to women. and how much they kneqw that some women would be permanently damaged for life, and when were doctors and nurses alerted to the damages of this mesh. and why were women not told before the surgery. lies i amn getting tired of, and SARCASTIC ANSWERS, FROM MEDICAL FIELD , AN EMERGENCY ROOM WOULD GIVE ME NOTHING FOR INFECTION, AND DIDN’T WANT TO TOUCH ME, BECAUSE OF THIS MEDICAL BLADDER MESH DAMAGE. I AGAIN GOT ANGRY FOR THOSE IN MEDICAl PROFESSION TREATING LIKE THIS IS MY FAULT WHAT THESE DOCTORS DID TO ME .

so many women like me, were not told, the doctor that did mine , LIED, he said in his report it was about 90% to success, THOSE WERE NOT HIS WORDS TO ME BEFORE SURGERY, HIS WORDS WERE I GUARANTEE THIS WILL STOP BLADDER LEAKAGE AND NOTHING SAID OF DAMAGE.

The medical boards in every state need to hold these doctors and nurses accountable for lying to women and ridiculeing women when questions asked after damages they did tio them . THEY KNEW , the damages the mesh was causeing in moving after surgery. they should be held also responsible with the mesh companies . and answer all questions to the women damaged, and solutions to stopping some of the pain and suffering . even to out breaks of infections caused by the mesh.

It’s hard to trust any doctor or nurse now, people we depend on being most truthful and honest with us and our health.

Some women the surgery their bladder is worse than ever and even more problems they are suffering. I know of another woman that personally said the same things to me, and I question , why some women suffered damages and some did not!

when doctors are lying that problems are from an on going problem before surgery. I know that I was not having the problems with bowels and bladder as i am now having, and pain and infections and more.

maybe investigations need to show that some were chosen for as i said the most evil and cruel reasons of those in medical profession , some chosen for medical research and damges done, because what i am going through , is not anything like what was going on with me before the mesh surgery at all.

As the woman that told me she had no complications was also someone in a power position in my area. Another reason not believe all she said!

3 years, is too long to need questions answered and not 1 will give truthful answers . avoiding , what seems to be women chosen for medical research guienea pigs and they did not volunteer or was told about damages they would suffer.

so cruel, for people in professions we are at the mercy of trusting some of the most uncaring people in America.

I have heard the lies of what some doctors have covered for their colleagues in what they had to know, before they did this surgery on women , without warnings to the women at all of damages , PERMANENT DAMAGES, where some women cannot even have a relationship, and the most cruel words , from doctors and nurses , when infection is apparent from mesh and other signs mentioned in a lot of women on this web site.
They are saying the women , do not have an infection, as was told to me, by one doctor, even though it was apparent at examination.
A doctor said it was blood in the urine that was coming back saying there was infection, one of the most cruel lies that would come from a doctor and those in her office , covering for her doctors and colleagues in medical profession.
What I suffer is apparent that irt does not take a doctor orf nurse to see, or feel. of the mesh protruding out .

but for these companies and doctors and nurses that are lying , people we are suppose to trust, but cannot get any thing for infection , MEDICAL RESEARCH! THAT HAVE USED SOME WOMEN FOR GUIENEA PIGS IS EXACTLY WHAT THIS IS ABOUT..

not just the companies should stand responsible for damages done to some women that have suffered and will suffer for the rest of their life, fighting infection without medication at all, THEY KNOW VERY WELL , TAKES EVEN A SOME WHAT HEALTHY PERSON DOWN AND EVEN SOMETIMES TAKES THEM OUT.

Is that what the companies and doctors and nurses want, for their evil they have done to women to kill them, I think so. i KNOW THE LIES THEY TELL TO SOME WOMEN. NONE WILL ANSWER QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO EXPLAIN .

As the main doctor that did my surgery , left this area , and from what i found out , he moves quite often from one town to another, doing this surgery. when I tried to find where he was, I was told by another doctor that assisted so sarcasticly that he had to move with his horses. AFTER HE DOES HHIS BUTCHERING ON WOMEN HIM AND HIS WIFE , WHO IS ALSO HIS NURSE , HAVE TO MOVE WHEN ABOUT TO BE EXPOSED.

No mercy, NO remorse, for permanent damages done to women. and these doctors knew what the mesh was doing to women. and so did the companies that put the mesh out. . The women damaged should have all their questions answered. by not only the companies but also the doctors and nurses, , and be given best solutions of how to deal with the damage that never goes away. and has stopped any kind of life and happiness that they may could have found but not even marriage can they have because of what this mesh has done to them inside.

not one doctor has given any solutions of how to deal with infections caused by this mesh, NOT ONE! WITH INFECTIONS COME OTHER PROBLEMS .

WHO IS GOING TO ANSWER TO THE WOMEN IF DOCTOR’S AND NURSES ARE GOING TO KEEP LYING AND COVERING FOR THEIR COLLEAGUES?

I agree with Christine!

Please understand the recommendation you are making. Incontinence is not life threatening. Bladder susupensio surgery or pelvic organ prolapse repair with synthetic surgical mesh (any of them) is life threatening.

I have a copy of Medical Device Reports filed with the FDA by J&J/Ethicon of at least 10 women who have died. And that is only one manufacturer. Then there are the ones who commit suicide. I prefer to err on the side of life wearing a pad as opposed to recommending a procedure that potentially might kill them…or permanently prevent them from having sex, being able to sit, walk or stand without pain, inability to urinate without a catheter or to urinate at all, loss of a kidney, developing autoimmune disease or dying when the mesh breaks up and strangles their intestines. And sometimes the complications start years later.

Not to insult you in any way but this is serious stuff. If the FDA reviewed almost one thousand scientifc studies and research over the last 15 years, has over 3,000 adverse events over the last couple of years and says mesh has no benefit over suture only surgeries and issues a warning saying the complications are NOT rare, this needs serious consideration.

Wishing you only the best, Lana Keeton

I tend to agree with Lana. Christi, you wouldn’t happen to be a medical device salesperson or an attorney would you? If you have no issues and possess no adverse effects you probably have no legitimate purpose to offer your opinion in this forum. I am ecstatic you have not experienced the trauma most of us have, but please don’t tell us how wonderful these devices are, none of us are in a mental state by which to share you exuberance.