Mesh Survivors Ireland- The Forgotten Women

05/04/2024

A dublin health physio is online pushing for transva**nal mesh suspension to be lifted. Her video contains incorrect information including that TVT does not cause problems- it does! Our group has many women with TVT-lifelong chronic pain 😢 Its is so sad that 1000sof young people have seen her video. She is also a speaker at viva la v***a tour. Dont condemn another generation to this torture. This video has traumatised so many of our group as the speel is very much like that many got from the doctors who put the device in
Margaret Byrne has tiktoked in response lhttps://vm.tiktok.com/ZGemfBpTp/

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03/08/2022

1.3million allocated for mesh services but no staff hired- every step is a battle to get access to healthcare!

Women "are languishing in pain, in no-man's land just waiting”

14/07/2022

Our brave Terri Martin speaking on Ireland AM this morning on her life after mesh

29/06/2022

Incredibly proud of our group members speaking at the health committee at oireachtas today. Strides made but a long way to go yet

Women who underwent damaging surgery in Irish hospitals have accused health authorities of dragging them into a "nightmare" of "gaslighting, ignorance and disrespect".

17/04/2021

Tonight on BBC Casualty, the crippling impact of va**nal mesh will feature. UK mesh campaigner, Kath Sansom, worked with the script writers- Please watch it so you can understand the difficulties for us and the complexity of trying to access appropriate health care and being listened to when we say we know our bodies-we know we are in pain. All too often we are dismissed and often told it is in our head. We need your help so this is not continued to be brushed under the carpet. We matter ♥ let our voices be heard

CASUALTY’s Marty devastated as his mum Bibi is left fighting for her life next week, while Faith makes a huge mistake. Bibi will be rushed into emergency service after she suffers painful com…

16/04/2021

"I had the mesh tape put in 2018 for a pr*****ed bladder little did I know the damage it has done to me from the week it was put in I suffered excruciating pain sharp stabbing pain after 3 surgery's later they realised the mesh tape had eroded into the neck of my bladder and through my va**na wall I had to have intense surgery this week they removed 16 cm of mesh tape and had to rebuild the neck of my bladder im only home this week from the surgery they couldn't remove all the mesh tape as it will cause more damage im home now with a urine bag for a month to try let my bladder heal but I won't know if the surgery worked for 6 to 8 weeks im only 39 and the last 3 years has been the worst of my life I couldn't b a mammy a wife for the last 3 years as the pain was unbelievable ive to decided to take action against those who did this to me and the company who made the mesh tape I didn't realise how many woman have suffered so bad from the mesh tape" anonymous mesh survivor April 2021

06/03/2021

This device has hurt so many women and their families in Ireland-time to ban this device outright

Worldwide, more than two million women have had the mesh products implanted in their bodies.

30/09/2020

Professor Carl Heneghan joined an undercover investigation to expose scandal of how fruit netting from a supermarket could be approved as pelvic mesh implant-a device for permanent implantation in the body

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/scandal-of-fruit-netting-approved-as-surgical-implant-dvcqd2rt9mr

27/09/2020

" I hate the effect that my life changing injuries have on my children. Just last week I found my 8 year old son sitting playing with an old phone. He found some old photos and was looking at them. He told me that it made him feel sad because he wished he was 3 again when I was OK and it was such a happy time than after my operations"

22/09/2020

I had a dragging sensation in my pelvic area. My mother had pr*****ed womb so I worried this was also happening to me. I went to a doctor and was told I'd need surgery to repair it. The doctor mentioned a quick fix so I wouldn't end up with leaks as i got older. I agreed not realising that meant I was going to have plastic mesh put in from one side of my hips to the other. I feel stupid for not asking more questions and just blindly going along with what I was been told. That day was the end of my life as I knew it.
I felt different after the surgery but was told this woukd pass over on a few weeks, sure as god as weeks passed the pain got worse.

I got the shock of my life one day when I could feel sharp wire in my private parts. I rushed to A&E as I thought my stitches were coming out. It was explained to me that this was the "sling" put in for my incontinence. I had to Google what a "sling" was and was horrified at the image of it and even more horrified to read that it grows into your body and is almostimpossibleto remove. I felt violated that this had been put into me without knowing but i felt mostly stupid for not asking more before going for the operation.
My life went from walking my dogs, working 3 days a week and chasing after my teenagers to what I feel is just blackness and despair-often just thrown on the couch after the smallest of walks. I have infection after infection. My gp doesn't know what else to do with me. My hips burn where the mesh is-shooting pains run down my legs, my relationship has fallen apart because at the age of 45 I am unable to have s*x due to the damage caused.i feel I have lost my womanhood. I feel ashamed to have burdened my family with this as they suffer with me. I miss out on family events often because of pain or infection.
My life has been taken from me and all to solve a problem that I may get in the future. It is hard to stay positive but I put on a brave face for my family but I cry everyday for the life I have lost.

20/09/2020

National Apology for women of Australia due to pelvic mesh implants scandal in October 2018. UK government apologises also to their women .....Ireland will you recognise the life destruction caused to Irish women?

Women endured decades of "horrific outcomes" due to medical implants, the government acknowledges.