A Human Individual Not Believing in much But-- Trying to recognize We Are ONE. We all want the same basics. HOME, LOVE, WORK we are PROUD OF. THREE - Common issues That should UNITE not Devide us.
December 23, 2013
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I choose to stay here for A woman that will not give me her PHONE NUMBER, Where she lives, Call me on the phone in her voice.
I realize she is hurt. Does she realize she is hurting me?
I choose to stay here for A woman that will not give me her PHONE NUMBER, Where she lives, Call me on the phone in her voice.
I realize she is hurt. Does she realize she is hurting me?
December 16, 2013
November 30, 2013
October 15, 2013
FM, ME, Chronic Fatigue, Lymes, PAIN
Chronic physical symptoms that do not respond to treatment,
Headaches, digestive disorders, and pain can—— be an indication of depression,
BUT may be symptoms of an underlying physical condition
That warrants further testing.
PLEASE DO NOT LISTEN TO EVERY “TRAINED, EDUCATED, DOCTOR”
Before taking antidepressants get a second opinion. OR 3rd— I have only been harmed by— not helped.
Integrative medical practices, those that combine alternative and conventional
Medicine is Un-successful at finding the true source of mysterious ailments.
In fact, antidepressants are contraindicated for short-term treatment of minor depression —something the drug companies do not want publicized.
So with doubt about their efficacy, why are so many doctors
handing out prescriptions for an ever-growing list of symptoms —
such as Pain, Stomach Ailments, Sweating, Headaches, Insomnia,
PMS, menopausal symptoms — that are not linked with severe depression?
Managed care and antidepressants
To get a clearer picture, it’s important to understand how the healthcare system works. Under managed care, when you feel unwell your first stop is your primary care physician (PCP), not a specialist. To figure out the real issues requires a lot of time.
One must look at the person’s unique history. PCP’s have very little time to spend with you and they are usually
Not experts on mental health or natural methods.
DO SPECIALISTS EVER LOOK AT YOUR HEALTH__ Your life — AS A WHOLE?
“Whole NO!”
Antidepressants may be the —ONLY— option they have for you. Because NO ONE WANTS TO SPEND TIME FOR $69.00! Yes! A “Dr” actually told me this.
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Antidepressants will NOT help you feel better —
AND the side effects Are Real --- And are REALLY DAMAGING!
Chronic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia, ME, Chronic Fatigue, Lymes,
Endometriosis and rheumatoid arthritis, will cause mild depression and multiple trips to the doctor’s office. While your primary care doctor may be unable to resolve your chronic pain, They will send you to A specialist to further exploit and not believe you.
With a prescription, they feel they’ve done their job. But if you need PAIN MANAGEMENT—— Good Luck! They make more from Paxil, Neurontin, Lyrica,
All of The new Biologic Medicine— Is truly scary and may be The end of your world!
Off-label use of antidepressants is Rampant!
While doctors are under pressure from the managed care system on the one hand, the influence of Drug companies To get a new product approved by the FDA for a specific diagnosis for a limited period of use based on the results of clinical trials.
TRIALS THAT YOU SHOULD INVESTIGATE! Than wonder if you are getting truth
Before you get to sick — to take action.
Off-label use, is an enormous source of sales and profits for Big Pharm.,
Years ago COMMERCIALS were not allowed to advertise medicine
THAT SHOULD BE PRESCRIBED by A caring Doctor— Now you mention any of The BIG MONEY MAKERS you see on TV— You will get A script!
The multimillion-dollar direct-to-consumer advertising campaigns that kill.
A 2003 study found that over 70% of surveyed patients reported exposure
To these persuasive advertising efforts.
Today Big Pharm.’s tactics are HORRIFIC! They fund research, conferences, speakers
free samples and sales efforts toward physicians $$$ in support of off-label use of their products,
Widespread promotion of antidepressants as a “safe”substitute
For synthetic HRT. When the WHI studies on the dangers of
HRT were published in 2001, about 13 million women were taking those drugs. Many of these women were put into a panic by the news about the health risks of HRT.
The drug companies THE REAL DRUG CZAR’S, seized this opportunity to promote antidepressants for menopausal symptoms, especially hot flashes. Millions of women were switched directly from Prempro to Prozac or other SSRI’s.
They don’t work for very long, If at all
Particularly in their use for hormonal, PAIN, inflammatory issues, and women aren’t being told enough about their health risks and side effects.
AND how many of us are scared into UN-Needed Hysterectomies that harm us even more!
I AM SAYING— Do not take ANY TREATMENT until you are certain.
I wish ONE PERSON had counseled me, We tend to react to fear— The fear that makes big Pharm.— Rich and protected by
Stock holders— Maybe your politicians? — Your SUPREME COURT JUDGES????
THE PEOPLE THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT— We THE PEOPLE of The USA— A Democracy???
HELP!
September 25, 2013
July 16, 2013
https://www.neurorelief.com/index.php?
option=com_content&task=view&id=277&Itemid=50
If you’ve been feeling any of these symptoms consistently for over a month, you should immediatley seek out medical advice, preferably from a trained psychiatrist, psychologist, or social worker.
Chronic physical symptoms that do not respond to treatment such as headaches, digestive
disorders, and pain can be an indication of depression, but may be symptoms of an underlying
psysical condition that warrants further testing.
Before taking antidepressants you should get a second opinion. Integrative medical practices
(those that combine alternative and conventional medicine) are very successful at finding the true source of mysterious ailments.
By MC—(Unless you have been to over 100 Dr’s and BABY I CAN TELL YOU STORIES!
In fact, antidepressants are contraindicated for short-term treatment of minor depression —
something the drug companies don’t want publicized. Clinical practice guidelines indicate that
SSRI’s need to be prescribed for at least six months for minimal treatment of major depression longer than most episodes of minor depression last.
So with such doubt about their efficacy, why are so many doctors
(most antidepressants are prescribed by PCP’s, not psychiatrists)
handing out prescriptions for an ever-growing list of
symptoms — such as headaches, insomnia, PMS, menopausal symptoms — that are not
exclusively linked with severe depression?
To get a clearer picture, it’s important to understand how the healthcare system works.
Undermanaged care, when you feel unwell your first stop is your primary care physician (PCP), not a specialist. To figure out the real issues requires a lot of time.
One must look at the person’sunique history and presentation.
PCP’s have very little time to spend with you and they are usually
not experts on mental health or natural methods.
PCP’s are well-intentioned, but antidepressants may be the best option they have for you. They
may believe that antidepressants, particularly SSRI’s, provide an adequate solution with relatively
little risk (at least in the short term). And antidepressants often will help you feel better — if you
don’t mind the side effects.
Certain chronic pain conditions that primarily affect women, such as fibromyalgia,
endometriosis and rheumatoid arthritis, can cause mild depression and multiple trips to the
doctor’s office.
While your primary care doctor may be unable to resolve your chronic pain,
he or she can help make you happier about living with it. If they can satisfy you and the HMO
with a prescription, they feel they’ve done their job.
Off-label use of antidepressants
While doctors are under pressure from the managed care system on the one hand,
The influence of the pharmaceutical companies who make antidepressants is truly pervasive.
Drug companies typically get a new product approved by the FDA for a specific diagnosis for a
limited period of use based on the results of clinical trials.
The companies then use a range of tactics to support the use of that drug for other diagnoses and for longer periods of time. This isreferred to as off-label use, and it is an enormous source of sales and profits for —
YES—FOLLOW THE MONEY!
Big Pharma, as the pharmaceutical industry is sometimes called.
Years ago a tactic used to promote off-label use of antidepressants was to suggest to doctors that women’s complaints have no medical basis — i.e., “it’s all in her head” — and won’t go away
without a mood-altering drug.
Today Big Pharma’s tactics are subtler. They fund research, conferences, and speakers and direct
free samples and sales efforts toward physicians in support of off-label use of their products,
including antidepressants.
Not to mention the multimillion-dollar direct-to-consumer
advertising campaigns. A 2003 study found that over 70% of surveyed patients reported exposure to these persuasive advertising efforts.
One specific recent tactic in recent use is the widespread promotion of antidepressants as a “safe”substitute for synthetic HRT.
BY ME______ They list the side effects of THE DRUG
IS ANYONE ———BUT ME—— Listening and laughing?
When the WHI studies on the dangers of HRT were published in 2001
About 13 million women were taking those drugs.
Many of these women were put into a panic by the news about the health risks of HRT.
The drug companies seized this opportunity to promote antidepressants for menopausal
symptoms, especially hot flashes. Millions of women were switched directly from Prempro to
Prozac or other SSRI’s. Unfortunately, in our clinical experience, they don’t work for very long,
particularly in their use for hormonal, inflammatory issues, and women aren’t being told enough
about their health risks and side
March 26, 2013
WHAT if you are in PAIN? and you lay in sweat--Can't eat or fight anymore?
Florida Governor Signs Pill Mill Legislation
Governor Richard Scott, of Florida, signed into law the state’s “pill mill” legislation, which looks to curb the proliferation of illicit pain clinics in a state that has grown to symbolize the abuse, misuse and diversion of opioid analagesics.
Mr. Scott (R), a former health care executive who has vehemently opposed certain aspects of the legislation, signed the bill in Fort Lauderdale. Fort Lauderdale is in Broward County, which has 24 of the nation’s top 50 prescribers of the opioid oxycodone. Of the top 50 prescribers, 49 are located in Florida. A local news station reported in March that the state is home to more pain clinics than McDonald’s or Burger Kings.“I am proud to sign this bill which cracks down on the criminal abuse of prescription drugs,” Mr. Scott told the Associated Press. “This legislation will save lives in our state and it marks the beginning of the end of Florida’s infamous role as the nation’s Pill Mill Capital.”
The new law mandates the creation of a state-wide prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP), delineates narrow conditions to establish a pain management clinic, limits the amount of controlled substances physicians can prescribe, imposes harsh penalties on physicians who violate the law ($10,000 minimum fines, six-month suspensions) and restricts advertisement of pain treatment centers, among other measures.
Since taking office in January, Mr. Scott has spent much of his time as governor trying to squash the propsed PDMP, raising the ire of the state’s congressional leadership, law enforcement officials and the Florida Society of Pain Management Providers (FSPMP). The FSPMP has cited the PDMP as the most important aspect of the legislation, and went as far as to call it “the single most important weapon in the war on [prescription] drug abuse.”
In January, the governor eliminated the state’s Office of Drug Control, which had been tasked with raising funds for the monitoring program. In addition to concerns over the state’s being stuck with the PDMP bill should funding dry up, Mr. Scott described the program as a massive violation of patient privacy. He pointed to what he described as a “massive privacy breach” of Virginia’s PDMP that occurred in 2009, in which 8.2 million patient records were illegally accessed. Mr. Scott argued that the government should not be involved in tracking the activities of law-abiding people in order to uncover a smaller subset of criminals.
—PMN Staff
FIRST! Do NO HARM...... RIGHT! Florida Dr,s should stand behind patients
Rx for Danger: Pain patients decry oxycodone shortage, but DEA says there isn't one
Throughout Florida, some chronic pain patients have complained that it is difficult — if not impossible — to get prescriptions for oxycodone filled at their local pharmacies.
Many of these patients are told the pharmacy is out of the painkiller. They think there is a massive oxycodone shortage, and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is to blame.
And so when the DEA earlier this month banned a Walgreens distribution center from dispensing controlled substances to its pharmacies in Florida and on the East Coast, the measure no doubt caused more tension for some patients.
But DEA Special Agent Mia Ro said there is no oxycodone shortage in Florida.
What customers are experiencing is likely a combination of factors, industry experts say, including pharmacists simply being more cautious.
No one wants to be the next DEA target.
"What we're looking at here is a chilling effect," said Michael Jackson, chief executive officer of the Florida Pharmacy Association.
In an effort to curb Florida's prescription-drug epidemic, the DEA earlier this year blocked one wholesale-drug distributor from shipping controlled substances such as oxycodone and issued suspension orders against two CVS pharmacies in Sanford preventing them from selling controlled substances.
Many factors at play
Experts say other pharmacists and wholesale-drug suppliers who do not want to find themselves in the same position may be scaling back the oxycodone they are willing to dispense.
If a drug supplier notices a spike in orders of a particular drug from a pharmacy, the company could potentially restrict how much of that drug the pharmacy could buy or cut the store off altogether, Jackson said.
At the pharmacy counter, pharmacists can decline to fill prescriptions for a number of reasons left to the individual's judgment.
Sometimes, the store could truly be out of the drug. In some instances, experts say, the pharmacist may have caught customers lying about their medical history and other prescriptions or suspects the prescription is fraudulent or improper.
And some chains, such as CVS, have ordered their pharmacists not to fill prescriptions for certain drugswritten by doctors the companies have identified as "high-prescribing." At least 22 Central Florida physicians were notified late last year they were on the CVS list.
Compounding the problem is an influx of new pharmacy customers who used to get their painkillers directly from doctors, a practice largely banned by state law that went into effect in July 2011, Jackson said.
'Last line of defense'
So what do pharmacists do when they can't or are not comfortable filling a prescription?
They take the path of least resistance, explained Paul Doering, a professor at the University of Florida's College of Pharmacy.
"They will simply wash their hands of the situation by saying 'I'm sorry, we don't have this,' " Doering said. "Whether you do or don't have it, [the customer] will never know."
When asked whether CVS stores are experiencing an oxycodone shortage, company spokesman Mike DeAngelis said, "A pharmacy's in-stock position on medications may vary depending on the acute prescription needs of any one community. As such, it is not possible to comment broadly on the availability of a particular medication at every pharmacy."
Though they aren't trained law-enforcement investigators, pharmacists must attempt to identify fake prescriptions and customers who are doctor-shopping and abusing drugs.
It puts the professionals in difficult positions.
"We're trained to be health-care providers. Unfortunately we are the last line of defense in patients who may find themselves overdosing on prescription drugs," Jackson said.
Kevin Schweers, spokesman for the National Community Pharmacists Association, said some pharmacists may be limiting what they dispense out of an abundance of caution for liability purposes.
"In some cases, particularly Maine, we have heard that some pharmacies have voluntarily stopped carrying oxycodone and similar controlled substances due to the fear of crime or possibly for other reasons," Schweers said. "In other instances, we have heard that the actions of law enforcement have restricted the availability of these products from pharmaceutical wholesalers, tightening the supply."
DEA officials said they took action against Cardinal Health, one of the nation's largest wholesale-drug distributors, because the company did not have proper controls at its Lakeland facility. In May, the company agreed it would stop shipping controlled substances from its Lakeland center for two years.
The two CVS pharmacies in Sanford that can no longer dispense controlled substances included one that was Cardinal's top customer. CVS fought back. But earlier this month, CVS was notified the DEA had revoked its registrations for the two stores, preventing the pharmacies from selling controlled substances.
January 22, 2013
Reply to friend that laughed--"We are still here"!
I found A funny email that I -exchanged- Before the last time THE WORLD-WAS TO END---Hey! We are still here! or did you rise up and no one noticed?
my reply to the BS below
STOP JUDGING OTHERS! That is the biggest problem with
"you people" oh and STOP! Trying to SAVE US!
I can imagine spending eternity with you folks--
And I would rebel even more!
I used Hel-vetica font-- LOL--get it?
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On Jun 16, 2011, at 11:11 PM, Roger Hammack wrote: John 12:48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.Ezek 7:3 Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations. 4 And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. Ezek 7: 5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.:
Reply to friend that laughed--"We are still here"!
I found A funny email that I -exchanged- Before the last time THE WORLD-WAS TO END---Hey! We are still here! or did you rise up and no one noticed?
my reply to the BS below
"you people" oh and STOP! Trying to SAVE US!
I can imagine spending eternity with you folks--
And I would rebel even more!
I used Hel-vetica font-- LOL--get it?
6 An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.Judgment Has Begun! Salvation is Over! Never was man's decision!On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Building Unity wrote: Thanks Mike and Full Name. That was very touching.On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:14 PM, mike wrote: I pray that you have not made false accusations against any of God's anointed (elect)... if you have, may God have mercy on you come the day of trouble. The wise will speak few words against things that they don't *completely* understand, least they inadvertently become a false accuser. May God have mercy on us all.
-----Original Message-----
1. The subconscious reality that eternal torment is true, ready to takethem.. . .
15. The anxiety of how the Campingites will react and
survive after the Oct21 date passes,
further ruining the cult forever.Yours in ORGANIZATION,
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I read this FINALLY found out what VICRYL MESH
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The Health Costs so we can be healthy -- The ability to be treated in ONE Place without multiple MRI's, Etc.
And without Judgement from 20 Dr's and 50 or so others you encounter.
DID you watch Mitt--my Fav--LOL & OBAMA debate? Boring. I listened to the boring
YES I SAID BORING debate they used Cleveland Clinic as A Medical Model of Efficiency.
OK! As long as you HAVE NOT NOT NOT---Did I say not? Ever have FM-Fibromyalgia
Or Chronic Fatigue Anywhere in your records.
They will SCHEDULE YOU, TAKE your money-- Than say after waiting 45
Minutes--- WE do not see FIBROMYALGIA PAIENTS-- I blogged this before about Trigeminal Nerve.
Any way after searching & serching i found this article from A SISTER IN PAIN!
"After surgery in a local hospital in Erie to rebuild her vagina and to have a sling implanted to hold up her descending bladder and urethra. The doctor used layers of porcine (pig) graft mesh interspersed with layers of her own skin held in place with zero Vicryl, a type of Synthetic suture in a transvaginal surgery, through the vagina.
Blanks later found from her medical records that she had been implanted with the Monarc Subfascial Hammock, made by medical device maker, American Medical Systems, which had been placed in her through vaginal incisions using a Monarc stainless steel needle to thread the Prolene mesh graft under the urethra. Prolene is the commercial name for a type of petroleum-based plastic called polypropylene.
Blanks now says it was odd that she was treated for incontinence since she had not complained of that condition to her doctor, even though it appeared in her medical records that she had.
After spending less than one week in the hospital Mary was sent home. The first thing she noticed was she couldn’t walk. “About seven or eight weeks later I was still so sick and in so much pain,” she tells MDND.
“I wasn’t urinating, I felt like I wasn’t emptying. I felt like I was still full and I was so tired all the time,” says Mary today. And the pain continued.
But Mary sensed a suspicion. “She kind of treated me like I was seeking drugs and I knew it but what could I do? I’m in her hands now. I said, ‘Look, please help me.’ Toward the end I was just peeing on myself. She told me it was part of growing old. I told her I couldn’t have sex. She said that comes with old age. I was 55-years-old! I wasn’t asking her for drugs, I was asking her to help me.”
Succession of Doctors
As often happens to women implanted with synthetic mesh for incontinence or prolapse and looking for answers – Mary Blanks began asking questions to a succession of doctors. Home
Suffering in Silence: Mary Blanks Not Silent Anymore About Transvaginal Mesh Sling
Apr 22nd, 2012 | By Jane Akre | Category: Patient Profiles
Mary Blanks
“I’m a pretty smart cookie. I’ve tested genius, but trust me I’m at half capacity.”
So says 58-year-old Mary Blanks of Erie, Pennsylvania. The Methodist pastor was namedMinority Business Woman of the Year for Northwestern Pennsylvania in 1990 as the entrepreneur behind her chain of beauty supply stores,Blanks Beauty & Barber Supplies and for her role as pastor at the church she and her husband, Joe, built.
She closed those stores in 2004, the same year she had her surgery.
Mary says her health problems began several years ago when her bladder totally fell through her vagina, something called pelvic organ prolapse (POP), a common occurrence following a hysterectomy. Her doctor sent her to a urogynecologist who said Blanks would have to have a sling implanted to hold up her bladder as well as a total rebuild of her vagina which was compromised during the hysterectomy.
Mary is no stranger to research. Online she found women saying they were in pain from the corrective surgery.
‘Don’t worry,’ said her doctor, ‘what’s on the Internet is always the worst.’
“That made sense to me,” says Blanks. Assured by her doctor, in October 2004 she had surgery in a local hospital in Erie to rebuild her vagina and to have a sling implanted to hold up her descending bladder and urethra. The doctor used layers of porcine (pig) graft mesh interspersed with layers of her own skin held in place with zero vicryl, a type of synthetic suture in a transvaginal surgery, through the vagina.
Blanks later found from her medical records that she had been implanted with the Monarc Subfascial Hammock, made by medical device maker, American Medical Systems, which had been placed in her through vaginal incisions using a Monarc stainless steel needle to thread the Prolene mesh graft under the urethra. Prolene is the commercial name for a type of petroleum-based plastic called polypropylene.
Blanks now says it was odd that she was treated for incontinence since she had not complained of that condition to her doctor, even though it appeared in her medical records that she had.
After spending less than one week in the hospital Mary was sent home. The first thing she noticed was she couldn’t walk. “About seven or eight weeks later I was still so sick and in so much pain,” she tells MDND.
“I wasn’t urinating, I felt like I wasn’t emptying. I felt like I was still full and I was so tired all the time,” says Mary today. And the pain continued.
When she returned to her urogynecologist and complained she was tired and in so much pain she couldn’t walk, she was given Elmiron to relieve bladder pain to be taken three times a day for the rest of her life. Her general practitioner gave her B6 and B12 shots for the fatigue.
Mary Blanks, Woman of the Year 1990
Then there was a strange turn of event.
In October 2006 after her third time visiting the urogynecologist whom she describes as “the most loving, sweetest, good-looking doctor you’d ever want to meet,” the doctor committed suicide, leaving behind a practice of Ob-Gyn specialists and a family.
Mary’s records disappeared. It wouldn’t be until March of 2012 that she finally located her medical records which had been placed in storage.
Blanks returned to her family doctor still in pain – pain in her legs, her back, her stomach and throwing up. “It felt like somebody had kicked me between my legs,” she says. But Blanks says he also learned to adjust, and even began another business, J & M Beauty Services, as she went back and forth to the doctors.
As her family doctor was retiring, she now went to his daughter. The young woman commented on how good Mary looked.
“Every time,” Blanks says. “I’m in a business suit, that’s how I go to doctors.”
But Mary sensed a suspicion. “She kind of treated me like I was seeking drugs and I knew it but what could I do? I’m in her hands now. I said, ‘Look, please help me.’ Toward the end I was just peeing on myself. She told me it was part of growing old. I told her I couldn’t have sex. She said that comes with old age. I was 55-years-old! I wasn’t asking her for drugs, I was asking her to help me.”
Succession of Doctors
As often happens to women implanted with synthetic mesh for incontinence or prolapse and looking for answers – Mary Blanks began asking questions to a succession of doctors.
Her general practitioner (GP) told her to wear a pad and take the antibiotic, Bactrum every day. A trip to the Cleveland Clinic and she received a PAP smear and even though she complained about pelvic pain, Blanks said she never had a pelvic exam. Instead she was sent to a gastrointestinal doctor who swore she had suffered acid reflux disease for 20 years and put her on Nexium. She had a colonoscopy. She was prescribed Cymbalta to treat anxiety. Blanks went to the emergency room for pain and Blanks said every time she pointed to her right side and her pelvis and lower back and legs but never received a pelvic exam.
“I think this metal thing is coming loose inside of me,” Blanks told doctors believing she had been implanted with a metal medical device.
“It was all tied together. They were pretty much saying you must be crazy in so many words. Every time they checked me above and gave me pain meds and sent me home and said nothing was wrong with me. Pretty soon I believed I was crazy. They were blaming everything on fibromyalgia but that is different, it’s a whole other pain. I’ve learned to deal with that,” she says.
Mary & Joe Blanks
Blanks says she asked her GP who prescribed Cymbalta, “I’m in unbearable pain and I can handle pain, trust me. I’m one of those people who is okay with pain. You deal with it. I have a high tolerance for pain. I came out of her office I was in so much pain, begging her for something. My daughter went in and begged her to help me. Nothing. She said I’d be alright if I just took the Cymbalta and gave it a few days.”
Searching for Answers
Mary started connecting the dots. She asked for her medical records to see what the original doctor had done to her. Blanks is not the picture of health. She had suffered a heart attack. She had a metal knee implanted two years ago. She’s treated for fibromyalgia. But nowhere in the records did it clearly say she had been implanted with transvaginal synthetic surgical mesh.
By October 2011, Mary endured another trip to the ER then the hospital. This time she was throwing up and couldn’t stop. Her husband said she couldn’t keep it up. There she received a plethora of diagnosis – Blanks was told she had a growth on her ovary and it looked like cancer. Then her problem was diagnosed as a blood clot on her ovary. Then they said the growth was on her liver, but she needn’t worry. Blanks says she kept asking for a pelvic check since that’s where her pain was emanating from but doctors kept looking above the waist.
Blanks was assigned a hospitalist, a doctor who works inside the hospital. She warns, “You are not going to believe this.”
“I had been talking to the nurses. I’m a nice person and I like to talk to people. I has just got done saying I just didn’t understand why I can’t get someone to help me. Now you got to listen to me you are not going to believe me. I have a witness.
“I’m bent over in pain, I don’t know what they had me on and I’m still in pain. He said, ‘Look before we get started let me get you straight right now.’ I said excuse me? He said, ‘Let me get you straight right now. You said nobody would help you. I’ve given you pain medicine,’“ Blanks says she was told by the hospitalist.
“I said, ‘Sir, I’m not looking for pain medicine, I’m looking for some type of diagnosis to find out what’s wrong with me.’ I now know he was trying to bully me. I was confused. You know I’ve been nice to everybody.
“ ‘I don’t care how much pain you’re in,’ she says he said. By now I’m crying. ‘I don’t know what you’re crying about. I lift weights. You don’t mess with me, I’m a bad motherf*……’
Learn More:
AMS YouTube video on placing the Monarc subfascial hammock- Warning- this may be disturbing to watch!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LtPE9-vUz8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LtPE9-vUz8
Miklos & Moore explain Subfascial Hammock
http://www.miklosandmoore.com/pdf/TOT.pdf
http://www.miklosandmoore.com/pdf/TOT.pdf
FDA October 2008- Medical Device Alert and Notice, October 20, 2008 – This was the first FDA Public Health Notification about complications associated with surgical mesh used to treat pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and stress urinary incontinence (SUI).
http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/AlertsandNotices/PublicHealthNotifications/ucm061976.htm
http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/AlertsandNotices/PublicHealthNotifications/ucm061976.htm
FDA July 2011- Alerts and Notice, July 13, 2011 – This was the second notice – FDA Safety Communication: UPDATE on Serious Complications Associated with Transvaginal Placement of Surgical mesh for Pelvic Organ Prolapse. This is a much more strongly worded caution about surgical mesh questioning whether benefit is worth the risk, but falls short of a recall. See symptoms the FDA has received from its adverse event database here.
http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/AlertsandNotices/ucm262435.htm
http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/AlertsandNotices/ucm262435.htm
Mary Blanks- AMS Monarc Subfascial Hammock sling made of polypropylene. Blanks has notyet successfully reported to the FDA’s MAUDE database though she says she has made several tries over the phone, but gets cut off before the call is completed. She says she will continue to try.
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