Welcome to my blog,where info regarding the problems with leaky ladies' plumbing, and vaginas, tired and sagging under the weight of other organs will be featured.

When our mothers talked to us about the birds and bees they forgot to tell us about what happens naturally to many women as our bodies age and show the wear and tear of childbirth. For some darn reason gravity gets stronger as we get older and more than our boobs droop. Sometimes its not just our faces that need a lift. Thank God that when He allowed us to go through aging He gave us a sense of humour to deal with it. However, it is up to us to use it, up to us to educate ourselves about how to do and look for damage control without finding a fix that may cause more harm than benefit.

 Since the FDA has loop holes that allow untested medical implants onto the medical market for doctors to put in their tool kits, and the lack of mandated reports of medical implant complication hides the real rate of serious complications that are life altering and life threatening we are at the mercy of medical device implant manufacturers whose drive to increase sales and profits does not encourage them to be honest with us when problems with their products are discovered. It has become painfully obvious that it is up to to us to protect our private parts from medical interventions that have no scientific long term testing  to assure us that the hardware they use, (yes I'm talking about screws, staples, sutures , meshes,) hardware designed to be permanent parts of our bodies, is going to remain inert in our bodies for our lifespan.   Leaking in your pants doesn't seem like such a big problem when you cough and sneeze, when you consider the cure may leave you unable to pee without a catheter, unable to have sexual intercourse, and leave you with chronic inflammation and pain for the rest of your life. So what do we do if we don't want a broken vagina that hurts us everyday? We care, we share information to make informed decisions when discussing options for medical interventions with our doctors. We must not assume every doctor knows about the latest and greatest  treatments. We must not assume our governments are protecting us. When things go wrong our private parts aren't very private when our legs are up in those stirrup contraptions and a multitude of doctors looking like miners with headlights on their foreheads are peering into us trying to figure out what went wrong. So please read and share. Please avoid plagiarism by crediting  the authors of the information shared. 

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Prolene mesh and your prolapse surgery – erosions, sex, and the latest data

by Lauri Romanzi

Prolene Mesh and Pelvic Organ Prolapse

Cystocele, rectocele, erosions, sex, mesh shrinkage, folding and thickening

You can’t make this stuff up.

Prolene mesh is the product name for a permanent plastic mesh with many implantation applications in reconstructive surgery. Prolene mesh is used to fix large and small abdominal hernias, inguinal hernias, hernias of the diaphragm; it’s used to resuspend kidneys (nephropexy) rectums (rectopexy), uteri (aka uterus’ plural) (sacrohysteropexy), prolapsed vaginas after hysterectomy (sacrocolpopexy), chin augmentations (mentoplasty), chest wall repair in certain thoracic surgeries, (abdominal hernias (inguinal, umbilcal, ventral) and both male and female urethral sling operations for stress urinary incontinence, to name a few.
Over the last 8-10 years, the use of prolene mesh for vaginal prolapse surgery has expanded to include cystocele and rectoceele repair, In an effort to standardize application and, arguably, make it easier for gynecology, urogynecology and urology surgeons to use the mesh, and, definitely, to market the new pelvic organ prolapse mesh kits effectively, Prolene mesh companies have tweaked mesh pore size (degree of laciness), thickness, and density; they’ve mixed it with other graft materials, impregnated it with various materials, each in an effort to reduce horrific complications and claim clinical superiority. The industry cannot advertise or market superiority without data, so they sponsor scientific clinical trials hoping for favorable data that will legally permit them to claim product  superiority in marketing activities, via studies paid for in part or in full by the companies manfacturing the mesh, often but not always recruiting surgeons who work as paid advisors and consultants, much the same way pharmaceutical companies use paid advisors to participate in clinical drug trials. I know, I’ve been, at various points in my career, one of those advisor/consultants. It is a very fine ethical tightrope clinicians walk when participating at that level. The perks are large. The rewards many. It’s an elite group of clinical industry insiders that trumpet the merits of these meshes. Those surgeons publishing outside of the advisory board arena compete for journal space along side industry funded trials.