I had my mesh put in December 2010 for bladder incontinence and by the end of 2011  I was back and forward with pain in my pubic bone, urine infections, sciatica and leg pain.

The GP said it couldn’t be the bladder mesh. I went on hospital scans, had infections and was bed bound; constantly in pain, always told it must be in my head; no one has problems; I was the only one.

In 2022 eventually an unbelievable consultant Karen Brown from Newcastle RVI saw me in clinic and she believed in me and did an operation to remove mesh.

In 2023 the same consultant operated doing a reconstruction using my own tissue to give me a natural bladder sling.

I still use catheters and have infection and pain. Then 10 months after that surgery I was diagnosed with bladder cancer ;I believe all infection eventually caused this.

Still suffering pain and incontinence and still urine infections.

I am 56 years old and this has impacted gravely on my quality of life and my family’s life’s