Scots mum considered ending her life due to mesh hell after suffering hernia

A mum says her life has been destroyed following a hernia repaired with a mesh implant – with pain so severe she considered ending her life.

Roseanna Clarkin, 38, has suffered excruciating pain since medics used mesh products to repair the issue.

Now she wants the use of mesh in hernia operations to be suspended, as it has for vaginal mesh following years of suffering by thousands of women.

Revealing her own hell, Roseanna told how she was in so much pain she asked for ­guidance about how to legally end her own life.

She said: "It sent me to a very dark place. I contacted Euthanasia UK. I asked how I could legally do this is Scotland."

Roseanna tearfully admitted: "I said to my husband, 'I have had enough of fighting'."

She added: "When I was going to the doctor's after my op, I wasn't believed.

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Source: Daily Record, 31 January 2022