Patient Profiles
May 3rd, 2013 |
By Jane Akre
May 3, 2013~ “My name is Cherie Storozinski. I am 50 years old and live in Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada. I am a victim of transvagnial mesh.” That’s how Cherie started her email to MDND. Cherie, 50, had a wonderful life in rural Manitoba, Canada. She and her husband, Curt, live on 20 acres and run
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Tags: ablation, Bladder infection, Dr. Shlomo Raz, erosion, Gynecare TVT Obturator System, gynecologist, Incontinence, Johnson & Johnson, mesh implant, pelvic organ prolapse, polypropylene, POP, prolene mesh, Stress urinary incontinence, Suffering in Silence, SUI, surgical mesh, tape, translabial ultrasound, trocars, Urethra, Urogynecologist, uterine ablation, vaginal wall
Dec 31st, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
December 31, 2012 ~ “I had originally had my surgery scheduled December 2010. I cancelled it because on the internet I saw 1,900 mesh complication complaints.” Hope Pagano, 49, got scared when she saw those reports. The Long Island mortgage broker with a thick New York accent was not going to have her incontinence treated
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Tags: ANA test, Anti-DNA test, Burch procedure, C.R.Bard, catheter cap, chemical exposure, complaints, FDA, Gynecare Abbrevo mesh, Johnson & Johnson, July 2011, mesh complication, minimally invasive, sling, Stress urinary incontinence, SUI, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), Topix page, transvaginal mesh, trichloroethylene (TCE), Urethra
Nov 25th, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
November 25, 2012 ~ Last June, mesh victim, Pat Buchanan was visited in her Seattle apartment by a television news crew from KING-TV. They filmed her going through her triathlon gear which she had shelved after she began experiencing synthetic mesh complications in 2011. The story is here. One week later, Buchanan would be going
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Tags: abdominally-placed mesh, allergies, Bard Marlex, Bladder, continent, Dr. Shlomo Raz, hysterectomy, Mesh Medical Device News Desk (MDND), mesh removal, mesh victim, Monarc (American Medical Systems), POP. SUI, rectal fissure, transvaginally mesh, UCLA, UCLA urogynecologist surgeon, Urethra
Nov 5th, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
Teresa Hughes, 61, a resident of Liverpool, England, and mother of two, has made so much noise about defective vaginal mesh that last year she was profiled in the UK paper, The Daily Mail. It started: “Thousands of women have been left severely damaged as a result of an implantable ‘sling’ operation to treat problems
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70 comments
Tags: 510(k), Boston Scientific Halo Sling, comoplications, contingency fee arrangement, defective metal hips, defective vaginal mesh, Eucomed, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Great Britain. MHRA, gynecologist, health regulators, hysterectomy, Incontinence, industrial silicone, Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy ASR metal hip, lawyers, mesh complications, mesh removal operations, Meshies United Group UK., National Health Service, PIP breast implants, plastic sling medical device, polypropylene material, Polypropylene Mesh, polypropylene plastic mesh hammock-like support, silicone breast implants, solicitors, stress incontinence, substantial equivalent, The faily mail, transvaginal mesh tape, transvaginal tape, TVT, United Kingdom, Urethra, urologist, vaginal surgical tape
Oct 10th, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
February 3, 2012. That was the day that Deb Contestabile says her health took a downturn from which she has still not recovered. The 46-year-old mother of two boys led a predictable and comfortable life with her husband of almost 22 years who owns a machine shop. They have busy lives with the two boys
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28 comments
Tags: American Medical Systems, Dr. Shlomo Raz, dysplasia, facebook, FDA, ischiopubic, Medical Mesh Legal Support, Mesh medical Device News Desk, Miklos and Moore, Monarc sling, Monarc TOT transobturator tape, not rare, obturator muscle, obturator nerve, osteotomy, pelvic organ prolapse, POP, stress incontinence, SUI, surgical mesh, TVT No, Urogynecologist
Aug 19th, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
Trudy Thomas is 53-years-old and the song, “If it wasn’t for bad luck, I wouldn’t have no luck at all,” might be her anthem. Thomas lives in Cascade, Colorado near Colorado Springs and halfway through our profile interview, she had to flee her mountain cabin. Flames invaded the canyons around her home where she lives
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22 comments
Tags: Bard, Bard Composix Kugel Mesh Hernia Repair Patch., C.R.Bard, Composix Kugel Mesh Patch, Davol, FDA, hernia repair, Kugel Hernia Patch, Kugel mesh litigation, Kugel mesh ring, Kugel settlement, Medicare, ring break, Social Security
Jul 5th, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
Lisa Elford-Pashenee was mad as heck and didn’t want to take it anymore. She was tired of unresolved questions about her vaginal mesh complications, about a succession of doctors who denied she had a problem, and about a California HMO that denied her a referral to a doctor who could help remove the mesh. In
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32 comments
Tags: Amikacin, antibiotics, beta-lactams, Bladder infection, Dr. Larissa Rodriguez, Dr. Shlomo Raz, ESBL, Facebook Event Page, FDA, FDA's Maude Database, gold standard, Gynemesh TVT, Invanz, mesh erosion, Septra, superbug, urinary incontinence, urinary tract infection, urine leakage, Urogynecologist, UTI
May 21st, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
Nonie Wideman might be considered one of those angels on earth who pays it forward by taking into her home kids with all sorts of special and emotional needs – those who have suffered trauma and abuse, autism, ADHD, fetal alcohol syndrome, and handicaps, among other issues. Wideman, 57, and her husband Bob, 65, have
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Tags: 510(k), British Columbia, complications, Consumers Union, CTV News, FDA, Gynecare TVT Secur, Health Canada, Incontinence, Institutes of Medicine, Kegel, Mesh medical Device News Desk, Nonie Wideman, pelvic organ prolapse, polypropylene, POP, predicate device, premarket approval, Public Citizen, Rose Prarie, Suffering in Silence, SUI, transvaginal mesh, Truth in Medicine
Apr 22nd, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
“I’m a pretty smart cookie. I’ve tested genius, but trust me I’m at half capacity.” So says 58-year-old Mary Blanks of Erie, Pennsylvania. The Methodist pastor was named Minority Business Woman of the Year for Northwestern Pennsylvania in 1990 as the entrepreneur behind her chain of beauty supply stores, Blanks Beauty & Barber Supplies and
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59 comments
Tags: American Medical Systems, AMS, Bladder, FDA, Incontinence, Monarc subfascial hammock, pelvic organ prolapse, POP, sling, SUI, transvaginal mesh, Urethra, Urogynecologist
Mar 27th, 2012 |
By Jane Akre
October 1, 2012 is an important day for Beverly Martiniano. It’s her 65th birthday, yes. But it is also the day she qualifies for Medicare allowing her to take the first step to have several synthetic surgical meshes removed from her body that have plagued her life and health for several years. She tells MDND
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19 comments
Tags: American Medical Systems, bladder prolapse, Deterol, elevate with intepro lite prolapse repair system. AMS, FDA, fentanyl, fibryomyalgia, Incontinence, oxycodone, pain management, percocet, Perigee Vault suspension system, rectum, risk factor, smoking, synthetic mesh, urinary incontinence, urologist, vaginal vault, vicodin
