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parietex progrip removal, an exercise in futility?
Thank you for your speedy reply, this website truly is incredible & very valuable to ailing patients. I have tried numerous NSAIDs and am currently on aleve(naproxen) daily as well as tramadol for pain but as I am only 30, I do not see leaving the mesh in working out for me in the long run. I do not blame the mesh at all for my situation as it does work great for so many, however I just completely didn’t need(or want) it to begin with. My focus now isent to blame anyone but just to try to regain my health & move on. My idea for easier removal(this hopefully will be seen by Dr towfigh as well for her input) came about when any surgeon I saw said that the only situation warranting removal is infection of the mesh because in that case(I’ve been told) bacteria & inflammatory fluid or pus collects around the mesh making it as easy as “slipping a tissue out of a Kleenex box”. So then couldn’t this be simulated with a non-infectious sanitizing liquid like a biological or antibiotic type fluid possibly? It may sound silly but I saw one of these videos where the pre-peritoneal space was swollen & blown up like a water balloon full of infectious fluid, so the surgeon slightly incised near the top so as not to let too much infectious fluid out, then he pulled the balled up mesh out drenched but completely de-laminated and free-floating. The surgeon then used a clear antibiotic type fluid to irrigate the space, filling it up just like the fluid before it had… What makes me feel its even more feasible is that polyester is hydrophillic & polylactic acid is metabolised by hydrolysis. So maybe even filling the pre-peritoneal space with a high water content sanitizing liquid then leaving it to soak with the patient anesthetised for 30 minutes could facilitate it being slipped out like a Kleenex just as easily. Completely theoretical & quite comical to a surgeon I bet, but I just thought what if?
Btw I see your a fellow U of A alum, go wildcats!