Reports project that up to 20% of patients whose hernia repair surgery used mesh products end up developing some sort of complication, with an estimated 1-8% developing a health issue related to the medical device in the months or years following repair. Patients may show symptoms from as soon as 2 weeks following surgery to as long as 3-5 years after surgery. But perhaps the most unnerving fact of all is this: In most cases, people experience a whole range of symptoms before ever approaching their doctor, thinking that their pain, symptoms, and inability to heal properly are “normal.” While a certain amount of discomfort is to be expected following any kind of surgery, if you are living with chronic, persistent or unexplained pain, you may be experiencing a failure of the medical product. In this post, we’ve catalogued and de-mystified the most common physical symptoms following surgery that could mean your medical device has failed.

Abnormal Hernia Mesh Side Effects

• You're Not Healing
• Inflammation or warmth at the infection site
• Flu-like symptoms could mean infection Warmth at the incision site, fever, inflammation, nausea, vomiting, ongoing pain, chills, body rigors, and wound drainage are all warning symptoms.
• Infection
• Biofilm Biofilm is a specific type of bacterial infection that can develop. An organized colony of bacteria, it is highly resistant to antibiotics, which will only suppress symptoms, and return (often with more intense symptoms).
• Autoimmune Reactions In short, your body becomes collateral damage in your immune system’s efforts to defend you.
• Hematomas Hematomas are solid swellings of clotted blood formed within the tissues after injury or surgery.
• Seroma Seromas are pockets of clear serous fluid. Seromas differ from abscesses, which result from infection and contain pus.
• Calcification Calcification is the accumulation of calcium salts in body tissue, which normally happens during the formation or mending of bone. When calcium is abnormally deposited into soft tissues, it can cause them to harden.
• Adhesions or Fibrosis Adhesions are fibrous bands formed between organs and tissues, while fibrosis is the development of fibrous connective tissue.
• Fistula Fistulas are basically the reverse of adhesions. Instead of a band connecting organs and tissues, fistulas are abnormal passages.
• Intestinal Blockage, Bowel Obstruction and Organ Perforation
• Migration, Shrinkage, Contraction or Rejection of Mesh Contracted/shrunken mesh can cause infection and blockages, as well as contributing to chronic pain. The body may also simply reject the device as an intruder, forming scar tissue around it, leading to complications, and chronic pain.
• Hernia Recurrence
• Chronic Pain Chronic pain is the most-reported complication of failed hernia mesh, defined as pain persisting for at least a 6-month period.