How many women have suffered due to vaginal mesh?
The Washington Post reports that as of January 2019, 3 - 4 million women have been fitted with the mesh worldwide, and of that number, around 150,000 - 200,000 have suffered complications.To get more news about
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In January 2017, UK hospital figures obtained by Sky News suggested that almost 10 per cent of women suffer complications following their treatment. At the time, urogynaecologist Sohier Elneil told Sky News, "It's a huge problem. I think it's bigger than Thalidomide, because the numbers of those affected are much more. And if we look at the problem globally then it's worse than the metal-on-metal hips and the PIP scandal as well."
For its victims, the negative effects of vaginal mesh have been life-changing."You spend your day thinking that the best way to get through the day would be to drug yourself up,"said Stella Channing, one woman campaigning against vaginal mesh, who was fitted with an implant herself seven years ago in Australia.
"You take pain killers and then take sleeping tablets, so that you can try and escape the raw burning pain and the ongoing nerve pain that makes you writhe in agony."For incontinencemeshslings in the UK the surgeon societies are saying it is an effective treatment for 'appropriately selected women', but we say who is an appropriately selected woman?" Kath told us. "We have women of all ages, sizes, races, some smoke some do not - there is no way of telling who will suffer. It truly is Russian roulette. How can you pick who is a good candidate?"
Kath had the operation herself in 2015 to treat minor stress incontinence, and was told the procedure was "a very simple and quick fix; perfect for busy working mums to be back at their desks in a week, with the risks very much downplayed". However, she later reported feeling an intense burning and pain, alongside bruising. It was this painful experience that inspired her to start the campaign.
