The FDA meetings :(

Submitted by Christine on September 13, 2011 - 8:18pm
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Hi All,

Just a quick note to tell you that the outcome of the huge bruhaha in Washington last week concluded with the following recommendation:

"More clinical studies needed."

You must understand that "clinical studies" *are* the heart of the mesh implant business. Every medical university and surgical center across the country will continue to have free license to operate on as many women as they possibly can in the name of science. Everyone wins - surgeons, hospitals, manufacturers, educational institutions, and the lawyers who will be paid to bring lawsuit after lawsuit against a group of products that do not work, *cannot work*, because they are based on anatomical and functional misconception.

The only losers will be the hundreds of thousands of women who will undergo these most cruel of surgeries before the FDA is confronted once again by a concerned public. Unknowing women are an abundant resource without which the entire system would grind to a halt. We have had 20 years of "clinical studies" on transvaginal mesh. In 2010 75,000 women were implanted with transvaginal mesh in the U.S. alone. Before the mesh surgeries there were 100 years of "studies" on A&P repairs. Hundreds of studies exist in the literature: Anterior repair vs paravaginal defect repair; posterior repair vs site-specific repair, etc. etc. etc.

None of these surgeries are curative. All are highly destructive to the normal functioning of the pelvic interior. Mesh surgeries came along as a response to 100 years of surgical failure.

There is no changing the system - not at this point in time.

What you can do is educate every woman you know. Prolapse is ubiquitous amongst women. We all have some degree of prolapse and most of us will develop uncomfortable symptoms due to postural and lifestyle factors.

Prolapse is preventable, easily stabilized and highly reversible in women who have had no pelvic surgery. The surgeries do not work. They have never worked, a fact that is clearly illustrated in 150 years of gynecologic literature.

Start speaking up NOW and save a sister, a mother, a friend, a stranger from the forever-damaging effects of "pelvic floor" surgery.

Christine

Surviving60

September 14, 2011 - 11:27am

.......for the depressing but very motivational post. I have been thinking about what I can do, who I can help. Time to translate thought into action.