Bleeding Edge

[Norgie]

If you have Netflix and you haven't already watched it, then watch a programme called The Bleeding Edge.
I won't go into the details of it, except it regards women's health.
I've just watched it and I'm absolutely appalled at the pharmaceutical companies.
That's all I can find to say at this moment about it because I'm so bloody angry.

I will watch it tomorrow op

I will have a look, thanks!

Please do, but be prepared to be angry.

Jesus Christ. Started watching it tonight as DH fell asleep.

@Sophienelisse It made me so angry when I watched it, those poor women. They're just the ones mentioned too. How many more are suffering world wide!!

Watching it now. About halfway though. OMG those vaginal MESHS!!! 😱 I had a vague idea what they were, but didn't know how bad it was when they go wrong (which they often do...)

And the stuff women have had to tolerate is just-off-the-charts shocking.

Funny how nothing horrific like this seems to happen to men eh?

And it probably won't happen to men. This is just another way it's all on women to sort out.

CMS. Useless. Yet single mums are still slagged off and penalised yet nothing is done to make the nrp pay.

Birth control - womens responsibility

@Sophienelisse @MurmuratingStarling

Exactly! The part where the lady who had the ' sterilisation ' and ended up with her life ruined. She had four children and a husband. I was thinking, ' why? Why are you doing this rather than him? You've had four pregnancies and births, make him step up!'

I had the essure sterilisation.
It changed everything.
Yes I am cross. My medical history means it shouldn't even have been an option for me. I trusted the device.
Bleeding Edge shows just how quick medical companies are to throw things into people without proper testing or research or thought...they make money, the health system gets people in and out quicker. And then when you suffer things afterward that there was never any sign of before, you are dismissed.

I'm an Essure victim, never going to get the last decade of my life back. I'm so exhausted by the fight to get these devices removed (hysterectomy Aug 2021) , that I honestly haven't got the energy to fight for compensation.

@Seasidemumma77

I'm an Essure victim, never going to get the last decade of my life back. I'm so exhausted by the fight to get these devices removed (hysterectomy Aug 2021) , that I honestly haven't got the energy to fight for compensation.

Exactly this. Nearly 10 years for me now. On the waiting list for a hysterectomy, delayed due to covid and the concerns about scarring in my abdomen meaning keyhole surgery may not work.

My surgeon refused to do key hole due to risk of devices breaking, had to have a large abdominal incision to ensure devices did not shatter. I also had to have 14 months worth of zoladex injections while I waited for 'urgent' surgery, now left with osteopenia as an extra joy! Hysterectomy not the end of my journey, I've developed abdominal adhesions following Hysterectomy and my bowel and stomach now attached to my abdominal wall.