FDA Public Health Notification: Serious Complications Associated with Transvaginal Placement of Surgical Mesh in
Repair of Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Stress Urinary Incontinence, FDA, October 20, 2008 More Blog Posts: Couple Wins $ 5.5 M Transvaginal Mesh Verdict Against CR Bard and Doctor, Drug Injury Lawyers Blog, August 8, 2012
You may find this hard to believe but, your «core» is responsible for posture, circulation, respiration, maintaining continence (prevention of urinary & fecal incontinence), support for our internal organs (
prevention of pelvic organ prolapse or hernia), sexual function, stability, digestion, phonation all the while balancing and counterbalancing pressure changes from within.
Some of the more extreme
symptoms of pelvic organ prolapse, like seeing or feeling your internal organs suddenly become external, can be rather obvious; others, such as the frequent sensation of having to pee, pressure or heaviness in your groin, leaking a drop of urine when you run or strain while working out, discomfort during intercourse and hip and back pain, are not so obvious.
Since I published my book, Saving the Whole Woman in 2003, and the newer book Save Your Hips, thousands of women from around the world are avoiding dangerous and ineffective surgery for these most common of women's health
issues of pelvic organ prolapse, urinary incontinence, and chronic hip pain.
According to a new study by Russian scientists, younger women with less serious
cases of pelvic organ prolapse and those who had hysterectomies appear to be more at risk of experiencing post-surgical complications after they are implanted with a vaginal mesh device than other patients.
FDA Public Health Notification: Serious Complications Associated with Transvaginal Placement of Surgical Mesh in
Repair of Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Stress Urinary Incontinence, FDA, July 13, 2011
Carrying extra weight (i.e. obesity) correlates with an increased risk
of both pelvic organ prolapse and urinary incontinence.
On July 13, the FDA updated a 2008 public health notification, reporting that complications from transvaginal mesh are not rare and that it is not clear that transvaginal mesh surgery is more effective than non-mesh repair
of pelvic organ prolapse (POP).
Approximately 25 %
of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) surgeries and 80 % of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) surgeries are done using transvaginal mesh.