Gemma B

Campaigner against the use of polypropylene mesh. #BanmeshNow #MeshKills #MeshMaims

[Gemma B @MedicalMesh_SOS]

Poster for Monday's Free screening of @bleedingedgedoc

If you know anyone who would like to attend spread the word, there's a few seats remaining.
#Greenwich #documentary #KirbyDick #AmyZiering #Netflix #bleedingedge #whatyoudontknowcanhurtyou
#medicaldevicesafety #FDA #MHRA

[mesh injured patients 🕊 @SusanMorgan19]

"My life was destroyed by an NHS cost-saving mesh procedure to treat bladder issues. Now I can’t even die with dignity because of it.”

So true & so sad my heart goes out to this lady 😪

@MattHancock @IMMDSReview @BorisJohnson @DHSCgovuk @NicolaSturgeon @SharonHodgsonMP

[James Malone-Lee @JamesMaloneLee3]

I have just seen a 39 year old woman who had presented with a cUTI; she showed me a Microgen report claiming her infection was cefalexin resistant. Anyway I treated her with cefalexin and she is back to a normal life after four years of misery. Treat the patient not tests.

[James Malone-Lee @JamesMaloneLee3]

Increasing water intake does not treat UTI. The microbes are dividing in the tissues; diluting the urine does nothing. The illusion: Given a positive culture, dilution of the urine leads to a negative urine culture. A trick using a test defect. You have not treated anything.

[Ton @talandzes]

FDA holding public meeting in November on metals in medical device implants and dental amalgam. Please submit comments to FDA with your experiences metal toxicity. #medicaldeviceharm #essureproblems #hipreplacements #meshinjured #chronicpain #chronicillness #breastimplants

[Chronic UTI Australia Inc. @ChronicUTIAus]

“It is a dreadful psychological ordeal to suffer like this and yet be told by your doctor that there is nothing wrong because of the result of a [UTI] test.” Professor James Malone-Lee

https://t.co/V9QGdTMnJq

[Gemma B @MedicalMesh_SOS]

"not all mesh operations are unsafe" when are you going to stop lying to patients?is there a £$ in mind that is enough? It's not who or how it is put in.... Mesh is POISINOUS to the human body full stop!!!

[Hillary Gressler MD 💉 @HillaryMD666]

@MahonySharron @Meshproblems01 @DrMattIzett @Natalia44723101 @_DHOTYA @MeshCampaign @FibroidNetwork @carolynjtyrer So we did actually ask these women if they had suffered mesh injuries. These are exactly the results as reported to us by the women we treated. Not all mesh operations are unsafe, and a huge majority of women who have this procedure would recommend it.

[James Malone-Lee @JamesMaloneLee3]

I feel so angry. What is a scientific conference doing hosting persons marketing complementary & alternative medicine? What should our patients think? Why a med. school scientific education? The doctors stand proxy for patients who then pay. Do you want this from your doctors?

[James Malone-Lee @JamesMaloneLee3]

The patients suffer terribly. They are desperate. How dare you profit from them without scientific justification? How dare you your slovenly data? How dare you disdain science? How dare your callous indifference to your customers? Anecdotes? Why do we tolerate such opportunism?

[James Malone-Lee @JamesMaloneLee3]

At the IUGA conference: Challenged guys promoting, to doctors, evidence-free, herbal extracts. Ill-informed; they were flogging dipsticks too. I was tough with the science: Unmoved. Exploiting patients with wrecked lives? Unmoved. Patients pay? Unmoved. Profiteering! Fight back!

[James Malone-Lee @JamesMaloneLee3]

Asked about L-forms and AMR: Bacteria have been co-evolving antibiotics with resistance during 3.5 billion years. There will be numerous resistance methods some still undiscovered. Darwin says it will be ingenious, complex, wondrous and weird.
https://t.co/C3nxQh2fuk

[Gemma B @MedicalMesh_SOS]

#MeshAwarenessMonth2019
#MeshKills
#patientsafety
#surgicalmesh
#InvisibleDisability
#PatientCare

[ICIJ @ICIJorg]

Lesson #3: Data can help explore the story systematically.

https://t.co/Dby9r3Xtpi #Implantfiles #ddj

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

The leadership of a pharma company is facing prison for the first time in US history, following the conviction of Insys Therapeutics’ billionaire founder and four senior executives on racketeering and kickback charges https://t.co/S7bt2RTyMO

[Bladder Confusion @ConfusedBladder]

So @NICEComms are willing to put time and effort into improving sample collection, but where is the work acknowledging the growing body of evidence that however 'clean' a sample you send to the lab, standard cultures are unreliable.

https://t.co/XeE2aooqgK

[Bladder Confusion @ConfusedBladder]

If 👏 infection 👏 stems 👏 from 👏 persistent 👏 organisms 👏 then 👏 they 👏need 👏 to 👏 be 👏 eradicated 👏 not 👏 sealed 👏 into 👏 the 👏 GAG 👏 layer. #rUTI

[Bladder Confusion @ConfusedBladder]

It's all very well getting a 'cleaner' sample, but the dipstick is unreliable, and culturing can only capture fast growing pathogens that grow on agar and may NOT be the pathogen causing the infection. No growth /= no infection. Women with rUTI know their bodies.

[Lady 👀Jemima Williams @miJemima]

I am re-tweeting this Tweet for International Mesh Awareness Day = May 1st .
This is in memory of al of our friends who died due to Mesh Complications. There have been others since.
Do the right thing = Ban Mesh or Train surgeons in removal, via experts like @DrVeronikis