The mesh injured, their friends and family are united through hope and courage to end the use of plastic medical mesh devices.  Medical mesh has serious adverse side effects including but not limited to: organ perforation, chronic pain, nerve damage, chronic inflammation, erosion, death, disability, autoimmune problems, chronic infections, sepsis and loss of consortium to name a few.  

Mesh is being used to repair: hernias, stress urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, rectopexy, breast reconstruction surgery; mesh is being placed just about everywhere. Children are also being implanted with mesh. Some victims were implanted without their knowledge and most without informed consent.  

Time after time the evidence proves that plastic is incompatible with human tissue.  Plastic triggers an autoimmune response that leads to chronic inflammation.  Many victims haven't realized that some of their health conditions are related to the mesh.  The mesh injured have been robbed of their quality of life and health.  

Plastic mesh implants are dangerous; the quality of the resin is not standardized, monitored or controlled.  Some mesh implants were made with resin that was intended for the production of disposable food containers.  When mesh disintegrates and fragments it could end up just about anywhere in the body.  Mesh has been removed from pelvic bones, spinal chords, organs, tissues; fragments of mesh have even been pulled through the skin.

Biofilm is another destructive side effect of plastic mesh; a slimy bacterial film forms over the plastic that could lead to severe infections (sepsis).  When conventional antibiotics can no longer get rid of the resistant bacteria known as "superbugs" the mesh injured must have antibiotics administered intravenously.  Plastic doesn't belong in human bodies.

Litigation for mesh injured women was consolidated in West Virginia; over 100,000 mesh injured women attempted to receive compensation in a system that was rigged and thoroughly flawed.  New litigations  are forming for hernia and rectopexy repairs using mesh.

Medical mesh devices are approved through a 510k process that is based on the approval of predicate devices.  This has been going on since the 90's; manufacturers claim that the new version is better but mesh implants continue to injure people,  

It is a difficult challenge to find adequate medical, legal and emotional support after the damage has been done.  All of this pain and injustice could be avoided by future generations by banning the use of plastic medical mesh device implants.  Native tissue repairs could fix most of these problems without the unwanted side effects. It's just not worth it!

The only ones truly benefiting from these devices are the manufacturers as they rake in billions each year at our expense.     

This is a world-wide problem.  Please join us in solidarity to ban mesh. Thanks to the efforts of advocates in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, South Africa and Scotland; steps have already been taken to limit the use of mesh.  But limiting the applications of mesh devices isn't enough; mesh needs to be banned.  People over Profits!

Please share to all your social media our goal is to make it loud and clear that we the people want mesh medical devices to be banned by accumulating as many signatures as needed.

This is the link to the petition: https://www.change.org/TheWorldUnitesToBanMesh

P.S. Please feel free to add your experience with mesh in the comments.  Friends and family are encouraged to participate in the comment section as well.

chang.org replied to my inquiry about the possibility of including other countries to be able to sign the petition; this was their reply:

However, we are also an open platform and your petition isn't restricted to that area only. You can rest assured that anyone in the world will be able to support your petition, so my best suggestion is to continue sharing your campaign as much as possible through social media and email.

Also feel free to participate in the comment section of the post updates where we have a forum to discuss mesh related topics.

We encourage you to submit images, articles, videos and post update ideas.  This is an evolving work in progress so please speak up and let your voice be heard.   We care about what you are feeling and what you have to say; express your soul.

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Thank you on behalf of all of the mesh injured men and women across the world...