Cathys Fundraising Page for Mesh Removal Surgery and Victims

19/03/2026

Hello Everyone I hope you are all ok and getting the treatment you deserve with your mesh. I FINALLY have my appointment with the gynaecologist to discuss a further operation of another sling but using my own body tissue . This is on the 31st of March. In the meantime, I am living with daily flooding when I go walking or any activity and it is horrendous. However, it's better than having that poisonous mesh in my body. Hopefully I'm getting near to the end of this journey that has been going on for nearly 23 years. Since the birth of my daughter, I have been battling the Mesh incontinence and severe health issues caused by it. fingers crossed that I am at the final stage. Love to everyone ###

01/07/2025

Hi everyone a quick update on my situation and firstly I'd like to say thank you for all my followers and I hope my story helps. I don't come on here very often and there are multiple groups that have more information on the current MESH situation than I can help with. I posted in January that I had had Botox in my bladder to help assist with returning issues after the MESH being removed. This worked fantastically for a couple of weeks but unfortunate it has failed. My body has metabolised the Botox and I am now back to square one. I have now been referred for another operation with exactly the same method as the TVT but instead of Mesh it's using a graft from my stomach as the hammock material. If this doesn't go to prove that the mesh should never have been used in the first place, I don't know what else to say. As I said, I'm battling with NHS resolution to get some compensation for what I've been through. My daughter's birth was in 2003 and this has been going on now for 22 years. At least I am MESH free however I have been left with a lot of damage. I hope this might make it useful for you to know that there is another hammock surgery option out there using your own body tissue.Do not accept anything less! you are entitled to have the best care after what they've put us through.
I will update on this surgery as soon as I know anymore at the moment I'm just in the waiting queue. Take care everyone and again thank you for the increasing followers. It's much appreciated. I will answer any questions I can, but as I said, I don't come on here very often so the response may not be immediate. Cathy Xx

04/06/2025

So I had Botox in my bladder on the 5th of January and it worked for a bit but it has been metabolised out of my body now so I'm back to square one. I am now being put forward for another operation, another sling operation but now they take a skin graft from your belly and use that as a sling. that shows you that the mesh has been deemed unsuitable since all of the victims have come forward. The fact that NHS solution turned me down for compensation will not stop me fighting them. I'm just compiling a response to the letter. They blamed everything on my underlying conditions which I should've seen coming, but I'll keep you posted. 

20/05/2025

I've been turned down for compensation by NHS RESOLUTION!! I'm fighting it and will keep you posted. Apparently it was explained to me that the mesh could break apart and come through my va**na and injure me!!! It absolutely wasn't. 

28/01/2025

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24/01/2025

POST MESH REMOVAL UPDATE AND TREATMENT I HAVE HAD.

Hello Everyone I hope that all of you who have been affected by this disgusting mesh scandal are now getting the help you need. If I hadn't had a private removal in August 2019 I truly believe I would still be suffering or I would have tried to harm myself. If you are not familiar with my story the mesh broke through my va**na in late 2018 and I was sitting on sharp, hardened mesh!! No one in the NHS would/could help me as an emergency and I was in extreme agony as you can imagine. I was just given morphine, lots of it, which led to addiction issues. This is another side to my story and I will do a separate post on this.
Anyway this update is to help you get POST MESH REMOVAL help. It has taken 6 years but FINALLY I am getting help to deal with flooding. I had the MESH put in originally following a very difficult birth as my daughter weighed 9 1/2 pounds. This left me with awful incontinence. So I had the mesh put it in 2008 and it did solve my problems initially but unfortunately many mysterious symptoms started happening to me from 2012. some of the issues that I have mentioned earlier like unexplained pain, difficulty to function but it also included constant infections, cold sores, loss of teeth, pain, fatigue, depression, brain fog and sleeping 22 hours a day. I honestly wanted to die. I know now this is because the mesh started to break down and my immune system was in a terrible state trying to fight it. 
For the past six years after having my mesh removed in 2019 obviously the flooding returned. This was intolerable because I had to take a change of clothing wherever I went, and every time I stood up literally I would flood.
Finally, I got an appointment with gynaecology and they offered me at first simply medication for an overactive bladder. I insisted this wasn't sufficient as I'm not at the first stage of treatment. I'm at the final stage. I was finally offered a simple procedure which is Botox in my bladder which of course I jumped at.
I had this done on the 7th of January this year. It was under a local anaesthetic but in a real operating theatre, it was mildly uncomfortable. So far combined with the medication, I take two pills a day for an overactive bladder and the Botox has proved extremely effective. However, I had to fight for it, so FIGHT for anything you feel will help.
The product is called BULKAMID, see photos for full information. IT IS AVAILABLE ON THE NHS. I had mine via the NHS.
I will probably have to go for a top up in four weeks but it should last for a long time. It says it's a non-biodegradable implant with an expected lifetime of 80 years so hopefully this could be the answer.
So far I have leaked a little but nothing compared to before and if it stays like this, I could live like this. However, my journey started 21 years ago and it has been an awful journey filled with pain, suffering, depression and the urge to take my own life. It should not have been like this.
I send love and strength to all of you are still suffering and I hope this is useful to you.

As I have said before this page isn't constantly monitored as there are so many more groups out there that have a lot better information than I do. However I hope keeping my story updated. Will show you the journey that I've been on and may help yours. Cathy x

13/08/2024

Just so you know you can go directly to the NHS RESOLUTION office for compensation which I have just started. I have been turned down for compensation because I had it fitted in 2008 and the 10 year period has expired . through a solicitor no one would help me. So I'm now going to Direct because I will not be stopped. I deserve compensation for what they put me through. I am not a woman down there at the moment. Every time I stand up, I leak and I am back to square one as I was in 2008. I have had my insides cut to pieces with Mesh and I have been traumatised and I will not stop until I get compensation. whether this is direct from the NHS or if I try and sue Johnson and Johnson in a class action, we cannot be silenced. use the attached template. Let me know how you get on xx

13/08/2024

Hi everyone, I don't come on here very often as I said before, but I have seen lots of you visiting the page. I hope you find it helpful? This is my journey up to And just after the removal in 2019.

Just an update on this I have an appointment now on the 10th of September 2024 with the gynaecologist and it is exactly the same process as when I had the mesh fitted. All about how much I'm leaking etc. I'm hoping that I will get the original operation of a pelvic floor repair, before they opted to give me the mesh. In fact I never had a choice I was never told there was anything else it was the mesh or nothing. I'll let you know how I get on because after my Mesh removal I'm now just flooding. It is unbearable and I can't live with it. This is been going on since 2008 so I am still not finished with my journey to get my life back. love to you all xx

23/02/2024

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07/02/2024

I hope you have seen that Mesh victims are getting compensation next year. Make sure you are on the list. I'll post the details later you need. Xx