Section Two: Health Complications - Chronic Pelvic Pain with Synthetic Vaginal Mesh

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The FDA is alerting health care professionals about the serious complications associated with the surgical mesh used to treat pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence. Those complications include erosion of the mesh, pain, dysparenunia (pain with intercourse), bleeding and extrusion or expulsion of the mesh.
“There are cases where patients actually develop worse incontinence after mesh, and it could be either the overactive bladder type of incontinence, which is the urge incontinence, or overflow incontinence.”
-Michael Hibner, M.D.
Pelvic Pain Specialist
Pelvic pain that develops after mesh could be caused by numerous generators. It might be due to mesh erosion, spasms of the pelvic floor muscles or where the arms of the mesh are close to the nerves or nerve endings. The mesh’s arms have either physically damaged the nerve or by being in close proximity to the nerve ending, pull on the area and cause pain.
“Probably the most common cause of pain with sexual intercourse is the spasm of the pelvic floor muscles. The vagina is surrounded by (these) muscles, mainly the levator and obturator muscles. If those muscles are in spasm, they hurt even more during intercourse.”
-Michael Hibner, M.D.
Pelvic Pain Specialist