Stress Urinary Incontinence

Stress urinary incontinence is the involuntary loss of urine, or urine leakage. This condition arises when the urethra becomes weak or damaged. When a physical movement (such as sneezing, coughing, laughing, lifting a heavy object or suddenly bending over or standing up) puts stress on the bladder, urine may be uncontrollably released.

According to MayoClinic.com, this uncontrollable release occurs because the valve-like muscles at the end of each urethra – the tube through which urine flows from the bladder and exits the body – fail to close or contract. These muscles may have been weakened for any number of reasons, including childbirth, prior surgery, or aging.

Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) affects an estimated 15 million adult women in the U.S., according to the National Association for Continence. The condition can cause pain, discomfort and embarrassment. Unfortunately, many women have seen their health worsen after being implanted with a defective transvaginal mesh product that was intended to relieve them of their SUI condition. These women have suffered troubling signs and symptoms that include erosion, infection, bleeding and the recurrence of their SUI.

The defective transvaginal mesh product lawyers of the Athens, Georgia, law firm of Blasingame, Burch, Garrard & Ashley, P.C., are women’s health advocates. We are currently helping women and their families across the U.S. and Canada to recover financial compensation for the injuries they have suffered from these faulty mesh products. 

If you are or a loved one is suffering complications connected to surgical mesh products, contact our defective transvaginal mesh product attorneys today. We offer free and confidential evaluations.  Call us today toll-free at 877-312-1753 or use our convenient online form.

Transvaginal Mesh Products: A Proposed Solution That Can Cause More Problems

Many women who suffer from SUI are too embarrassed about their condition to seek medical assistance. Those who do may be presented with a range of treatment options, including physical therapy (such as Kegel exercises that strengthen the pelvic floor muscles, biofeedback training, electrical stimulation and weighted cones), medication (such as those that increase estrogen levels) and, in recent years, the implantation of synthetic mesh kits.
These transvaginal mesh products (also called mesh patches, vaginal tape, transobturator tape, bladder slings, vaginal slings or suburethral slings) are intended to strengthen and support the urethra. However, in many cases, the mesh may erode through the body’s tissues and cause other serious and painful complications, such as:

• Severe pain throughout the pelvic area;
• Infections;
• Inflammation
• Bowel, bladder or blood vessel perforation and bleeding;
• Dyspareunia(painful sexual intercourse); and
• Recurrence of stress urinary incontinence.

Contact Our Defective Transvaginal Mesh Product Lawyers Today

Blasingame, Burch, Garrard & Ashley, P.C., is dedicated to delivering answers and financial relief for women who have suffered injuries from these faulty mesh products, including compensation for their medical expenses, lost income, physical pain and emotional suffering. We recently settled a group of mesh product cases for over 100 women after one week of trial in federal court.

We are an Athens, Georgia-based law firm that has been widely recognized for our ethics, skill and professionalism by Martindale-Hubbell®, The Best Lawyers in America, American College of Trial Lawyers, Super Lawyers and Law & Politics Media/Atlanta Magazine. Since 2006, our defective transvaginal mesh product lawyers have used our expertise and resources to secure recoveries for women throughout the U.S. and Canada who have been injured by defective surgical mesh products.

If you believe you are or a loved one is suffering complications from a transvaginal mesh product contact us today for a free case evaluation by calling us toll-free at 877-312-1753 or using our convenient online form. We have trained female consultants available to discuss your situation and circumstances confidentially. Because we represent clients on a contingency fee basis, we will advance all expenses throughout the lawsuit process.