113 women have now filed complaints against unknown persons for “deception” and “unintentional injuries”

Women are suffering from serious side effects since having vaginal implants and have decided to file a complaint in France, reports France Inter.

Since 2020, 113 women have filed complaints against unknown persons for “deception” and “unintentional injuries” after having a vaginal implant, France Inter learned from victims and one of the lawyers in charge of the cases. They denounce a real health scandal.

Vaginal implants are strips placed to strengthen the perineum in order to combat urinary leakage or organ prolapse. Each year, 30,000 of these prostheses are placed in France. However, this device causes significant complications in some women (bleeding, muscular or neuropathic problems, tears), with pain described as unbearable, sometimes making it impossible to have sexual relations, and a recognized state of disability.

“I can’t stand in a static position. Sitting is difficult. Driving also causes me pain. The pain doesn’t go away.”laments Céline, 42, who was operated on in 2019 following complications related to endometriosis, and who filed a complaint. Today, she is considering a costly operation in the United States, with surgeons specialized in removing these devices.

In France, it is impossible to completely remove these prostheses, the plastic of which is mixed with the flesh, which leaves patients in situations of medical wandering. A dramatic situation which pushed a 41-year-old woman to resort to assisted suicide in August in Belgium, after four years of agony.

Since 2020, the installation of these devices has been regulated by decree: patients must be informed of the risks, the strips cannot be used as a first-line treatment and the surgical decision must be taken in “consultation by a multidisciplinary pelvic-perineology team”That is not always the case.

It was on social media that Céline discovered “all these stories of women who suffered like [elle] “misdiagnoses by doctors when they knew full well that the cause was the strip”She denounces the attitude of doctors who made her believe that the pain “was in our head” and who have “lied to all these years”.

In four years, 113 women have filed complaints, compared to only 20 at the start. This influx of complaints does not surprise Me Hélène Patte, one of the lawyers in this case, for whom patients are not sufficiently informed of the risks despite the surveillance of the health authorities: “We have women who have had devices fitted very, very recently, without any additional information, without compliance with current regulations, by doctors who explain that there are very few complications.”