Mesh removal nightmare: what can you do?

Many women suffer a mesh removal nightmare when things have gone wrong and they’re unable to access proper help and support to aid their recovery or manage their symptoms.

In some cases, mesh removal surgery simply won’t work as the devices are intended to be permanent. There are cases where there’s nothing that can be done at all other than simply managing the pain symptoms.

But a claim for personal injury compensation can open doors to the kind of help and support that victims truly need. Here’s a little advice about it.

Help with your mesh removal nightmare

We’re not medical experts ourselves, and we can’t turn back the clock. But there are things we can do that may help to relieve you of your mesh removal nightmare, and we can achieve it with a claim for personal injury compensation.

Here’s how.

When you make a claim, there are two primary things that you can be entitled to recover damages (money) for. These are:

• General Damages: for the pain, suffering and loss of amenity caused by the negligence;
• Special Damages: for losses and expenses.

When you make a claim, the Defendant (i.e. the organsation you are pursuing compensation from) has a duty to help to ‘mitigate’ your losses. This means that, if they can take action to help reduce your suffering, they ought to do it. So, when you make a claim, we can find ways of mitigating your losses. And one key way of doing this is with private treatment.

How does private treatment in a claim work?

If there’s any form  of private treatment or surgery that could be more beneficial for you than what’s generally available, we may be able to organise this for you as part of a case. If we can arrange for private surgery where the costs of this are met by the opponent, this could relieve you of your mesh removal nightmare.

There are questions over the efficacy and quality of services on offer via the NHS. There may also be long waiting lists for help, which means you can end up suffering for longer. But if private treatment and private surgery can be made available as part of a claim, this could expedite any recovery you may be able to make.

There are, of course, no guarantees, and each claim is different. Also, whether you can access private services can depend on the course of the claim as well. It may be that you need to wait until the end of a case before you can access funds to use for private treatment, but the important thing is that the avenue for it is there.

For more information about the claims services we can offer, please don’t hesitate to contact the team for free, no-obligation advice.