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Weighing your options, Knowing your risks...

When you begin to experience incontinence symptoms, you have several options or directions to go to find a solution. These options range from non-invasive exercise programs aimed at strengthening your pelvic floor muscles to surgical procedures inserting a mesh into your body to assist in appropriately supporting your abdominal organs. I am not... Read moreChevron
posted 12/28/2009, comments (0)|
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A Call for Improved Informed Consent: Implants

I write in connection to the September 24, 2009 announcement by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)  that the agency is considering reversing clearance granted of a knee-surgery device, after finding evidence that the agency under then-Commission Eric von Eschenbach may have been swayed by political pressure to clear a product for... Read moreChevron
posted 10/15/2009, comments (0)|
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another victim of mesh erosion

Hello!  I am another victim of mesh erosion and certainly am concerned about where to go from here.  I wish that I had never heard the words!  Anyway, I wonder if anyone can tell me how to get our Drs. to take this stuff out of me!  My new surgeon wants to cut the bad part out and sew me together, but I am only 45 and concerned... Read moreChevron
posted 08/02/2008, comments (4)|
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Answering Incontinence Community Questions - After a TVT Operation; Mesh Erosion

TVT Operation - Reader's Question: What can I expect after a TVT operation, in terms of pain, suture removal, voiding and sexual activity?   Read the original post on TVT operation.   TVT is short for Transvaginal tape and is a brand name for a type of sling called a midurethral sling.  There are many products like this on... Read moreChevron
posted 04/28/2008, comments (10)|
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Victim of Mesh Erosion

I hope I've found the right place to discuss mesh erosion.  :( I had a hysterectomy and TVT sling done in 12/05 and now have mesh eroding into my vaginal wall.  I knew something was not right almost immediately after surgery, but was impossible to figure it out until the mesh itself showed itself. At first the Doctor who... Read moreChevron
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