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 last month she asked for ­guidance about how to legally end her own life.

She added: "When I was going to the doctor's after my op, I wasn't believed. They told me it was all in my head and even told my husband Brendan 'Don't get roped into this'".

Roseanna said: "I suspect the mesh has moved. But even the other week one of the GPs at my practice was suggesting it was in my head."

Roseanna launched a petition calling for the suspension of mesh in hernia ops. It is going through the public ­petitions committee at Holyrood.

To date, more than 70 patients or their families have written to the committee about their experiences with hernia mesh implants.

Labour's health spokeswoman, Jackie Baillie, who campaigned for vaginal mesh ops to be suspended, called for an urgent review of the uses of mesh for other procedures.

She said: "It has taken years for the serious problems caused for women who had transvaginal mesh used in their surgical treatment to be resolved but it appears to be affecting other conditions too."

She warned: "We can't repeat the mistakes of the past."

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Source: Daily Record, 31 January 2022