The $$ is not in naturally repairing and people want to pay money, and get on with their lives – short term gain – long term maybe horror .Prolapsing of any organ or herniation leads to its own drama post surgery.
So many who have had surgery supposedly to help have not been prepared for what often happens next
MESH
What is it?
Why is it?
A woman’s risk of requiring surgery for prolapse is approximately 7 percent by age 80. Of those who have surgery, an estimated 13 percent will require a repeat operation within five years and as many as 29 percent will undergo another surgery for prolapse or a related condition at some point during their life.
Why is it a bad move?
It creates its own dramas – Unlikely to have been mentioned at the time (informed consent with new products . . .)
Let us count the ways
How to remove?
Supposedly great – It travels, breaks down and generally makes its presence felt in non useful ways
BIT HARD TO FIND GOOD WORDS ON IT ONLINE
Complications that lead to mesh removal:
- Adhesions (scars that cause tissues or organs to stick together)
- Hernia recurrence
- Infection
- Intestinal blockages
- Mesh displacement (movement through the abdominal cavity)
- Mesh erosion into organs
- Meshoma (wrinkling of the mesh that causes pain or hernia recurrence)
- Nerve entrapment or damage
- Rejection of the mesh implant
Doctors removed mesh from the pelvis more often in men, and the most common reason for removal in the pelvis was pain. Symptoms of complications that require mesh removal include fever, problems urinating or blood loss, leakage or severe swelling at the surgery site.
One woman’s story (Rainey knows her and wonders can GW help?. . .)
Kye says – I want to see a change in the rights women have over their bodies. In 2007 I had a prolapse operation following the birth of my child in 2005 this caused incontinence. I went though 12 specialist each male doctor I went to basically said it wasn’t life-threatening so it didn’t matter.
It didn’t matter that in my 20 ‘s I couldn’t have sex, exercise properly, not wet my bed or my clothes. Instead I was given latex rubber rings the hold things in place I’m allergic to latex and they held nothing.
Eventually I found a female doctor who did understand. I had two options one was to have an operation that would only last a short amount of time the other was to have a hysterectomy. I chose the hysterectomy; However when referred on to the male surgeon I was denied the operation because they were worried I’d want more children. I did not.
‘Some of the things said to me were what if your children die? well I’m not going to replace a child with another child? What if you’re in a new relationship and your husband wants a child? Well they can go have one because I’m not. In a world where males could have vasectomies in their 20s but I couldn’t have a hysterectomy for medical reasons and quality of life was sickening. A bunch of men telling me what to do with my body.
‘Instead I was offered a new innovative surgery. A mesh tape to hold things in place. I had no choice. Well it works great for a year until it snapped you could feel plastic through my vaginal wall skin. I would have to pass painful pieces of blue plastic through my urethra as this tape has Shrapneld through my body. A few years ago I had surgery to look to see if it could be removed unfortunately it has become so embedded in my body they were unable to locate it.
‘Random pain and discomfort I have learnt to live with everyday and I am one of the lucky ones because I can still function. Women should have the right to choose to have hysterectomy at any age for medical reasons and or their tubes tied as a choice despite whether or not they had a certain amount of children or whether or not they may decide they want children in the future it is their choice no one else. Instead we choose to give women sometimes dangerous, sometimes painful alternatives with minimal research that have a multitude of side effects. Contraception has barely changed in my lifetime and neither has the right to remove or reduce one’s fertility. Just in case there is a husband that might want a baby one day.
‘Change is needed in this area too late for me but not for other young women in this country and the world”.
Why do they not actually undo why it is there?
See all here
AND restore good nutrition, habits and self care to allow the best that can happen PRIOR to considering surgery.
My first experience was with a woman in Brisbane in the late 90’s who had had her colon repaired – a baby had grown on the edge of it after she had had a hysterectomy (yes – you read that rig). She was one of the first mesh recipients – after the cancer was removed – and as a morbidly obese level, everything that could go wrong had. Uncontrolled diabetic (highly medicate – shame that the medicos forget about the reason it is out of whack – food in). Now she ate almost nothing.
Came to see me with back ache.
And knee pain . .
And high BPP, low thyroid , etc. .
The mesh was leaving her in agony.
What did I do?
Cupped cold out, added in moxa to move – and calmed he r- and moved lymph.
Over time – as I sternly changed her input – and she went back to the ‘specialists’ at the university hospital.
They all literally yelled at her for not following their diet (that had not worked) and done the opposite.
Fueling the body is crucial and allowing it to normalise.
I was using all that is in Foundational Moves . .
As a naturopath and mother – I knew she needed better ingredients to allow the healing.
She was so much better – on eating what was banned – fat and eggs – no cereal – only drinking water.
Back then I had all on 3 not 9 cups of coloured veggies. .
Her BP and diabetes were normalized.
Could not do much with her mesh – as I knew it was possibly embedded.
Thankfully I missed out on mesh, when I did such a good job of preparing my body for surgery.
So grateful! I – was to have a ‘Manchester repair’ with mesh, and the internal hernia (enterocele) that it was not used.
The inner herniation was.
Now we have so many in a mess.
Supposedly we are not to use castor oil packs or steaming.
What do they do instead?
Always being courageous with caution, I also know the body rejects what it doe snot waht.
And when it is in that process – is it life enhancing to ignore – or to help?
given that so many are now jabbed – so many are being lied to and ignored and frankly killed off by what was once a profession that lived by the maxim ‘First, Do No Harm’ – we are all on our own really.
We do know that the body heals itself.
Given the chance
Triage needed – AND
We have to bump up nutrition, hydration, Qi and blood and lymph flow undo blockages to healing, understand that the body remembers all that HAS happened and this may also be running the energy follows thought and the structure thus caught up in Reichian bands and pools of stagnant STUCK – thus flows my NT flow til we gracefully allow the body at ts own speed to untangle itself.
Mesh instead of Manchester Repair (Fothergill’s operation).
1961 – trying to fix ‘all fall down’.
AN ABDOMINAL SLING OPERATION FOR THE REPAIR OF ENTEROCELE AND VAULT PROLAPSE
Thus – all cases on merit.
It Depends
You are there – what do YOU feel to do. . ?