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Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee [Session 6]


Anonymous submission of 19 July 2021

PE1865/OO - Suspend all surgical mesh and fixation devices

Please suspend all surgical mesh and fixation devices. I am a mesh injured woman who had to go America for removal as no clinicians in this country believed my symptoms.

I woke up from the operation in severe pain in 2010. The implant clinician dismissed my pain and so did every other clinician I was sent to in the 9 years I had my Tension-free Vaginal Tape (TVT) mesh implant.

I used our life savings for a full TVT removal. I have a medical report from the Doctor on everything that was wrong with my mesh implant along with some very specific photos. I was told by the doctors in the UK that this was a gold standard in and out 20 minute operation, this was not the case. I was kept in over night because the pain was so bad that I could not walk. Please stop this barbaric operation and don’t injure anyone else with this implant.


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