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"Mesh rectopexy and consequent symptoms"

About: St Thomas' Hospital / Colorectal surgery

(as a service user),

Since rectopexy surgery during which polypropylene mesh was inserted  in 2010 I have had to seek further help due to profound worsened incomplete evacuation post the surgery, prolonged pain due to the obstructive problems and mesh associated discomfort. This is having an appalling effect on my work and career as even with adjusted hours of work I suffer frequently with sleep deprivation due to discomfort at night and prolonged discomfort also during the day.  

The only way I am able to have any  degree of bowel movement which leaves me comfortable is with use of a rectal irrigation unit (which takes considerable time) and thus I am completely reliant on this equipment.   In 2018 for the second time in the past few years and despite tests in 2018 which confirmed my profound incomplete evacuation difficulties and that I still have three areas of serious prolapse in my bowel, surgeons and Drs at St Thomas hospital dismissed me as someone with 'behavioural tendencies' and suggestion to my GP that I could best be helped with via cognitive behavioural therapy.   

I was traumatised by this and feel appalled as I think this is a clear example of dismissive and inappropriate attitudes following the use of pelvic mesh in surgery which was not safe or evidence based.   CBT in no way could help with the consequences of the surgery and the massive discomfort of my prolapses and obstructed bowels which I experience each day/ night.   I have been traumatised by their appalling attitude and the letter written by those at  St Thomas and I am facing loss of career and ability to work and  mesh removal and resection at a different London hospital.  

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