Tag Archives: implanted surgical mesh
Surgical mesh death
‘How I will ever get over this, I just don’t know,’ says Philip Chatfield. ‘If I hear a loud scream, it takes me straight back: sometimes it went on for half an hour without stopping. ‘She was in agony. I just didn’t know what to do. She tried so hard to live with it but, […]
Post baby operation linked to superbug infection
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5355859/Post-baby-mesh-operation-linked-superbug-infections.html#ixzz5FTMFWXOB For more than a decade, Annette Power has had to take antibiotics at almost every mealtime. ‘I got through them like Smarties,’ says Annette. ‘I’ve had permanent infections for about 16 years — I’d finish one course of antibiotics on a Friday, the pain would come straight back and on the Monday I’d be given […]
Horror stories of post baby op that can ruin lives
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4575510/Your-horror-stories-post-baby-op-ruin-lives.html#ixzz4jtMkMvvU Women have been damaged by a mesh to treat post-childbirth incontinence It causes a variety of side-effects including crippling pain and infection Yet the NHS has continued to give the implant a clean bill of health Here, some of the many who’ve contacted us tell their stories Women damaged by a mesh designed to […]
Why is the NHS still failing to help the women maimed by post baby surgery?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4463698/Mother-forced-spend-4-500-remove-mesh-implants.html * Kimberly Vallis was given implant to improve bladder function after childbirth * But the former estate agent had a ‘foreign body response’ to the plastic mesh * She suffered a miscarriage after two years of pain and constant infections * She asked doctors to remove the plastic mesh but they refused * Her […]