Surgical Mesh Causes Life Long Underlining Side Effects. It’s not an opioid crisis if you are a patient in need of help with pain

Hello and Welcome to After Thoughts, WestCoastMeshFighter.  I have seen a lot of information online regarding Pain Medication and The Opioid Crisis.  I have touched on this subject before in my video's.  Before I get into this, I always post a disclosure that I am not a doctor or a lawyer, just a patient that …

Pain Management Vlog Docuseries

Hello everyone, Welcome to Afterthoughts for Westcoastmeshfighter.  I am not a doctor/lawyer, I am a patient & everything I talk about is based on my own experiences.  I have been working on the next vlog and because of the length, I am splitting it up into two videos due to the length of them together.  …

May is Mesh Awareness Month -Living with A Transvaginal Mesh Implant Complications

Hello everyone, I hope everyone is having a good week.  I wanted to make a quick post but first as always the disclosure clause.  I am not a doctor, lawyer, or medical or legal professional, everything I talk about is based on my own experiences.  I have a long career history with 2 college degree's …

Vaginal Mesh & Pain Management

Hello Everyone, Hello and welcome to Afterthoughts for westcoastmeshfighter.  As always I post a disclosure that I am not a doctor, lawyer, or represent any entity outside westcoastmeshfighter, using as much royalty free content in my blog, social media, and vlogs on my YouTube channel.  Everything that I talk about, is from my own experiences. …

Bucket Lists are not completely off the list, not letting a Transvaginal Mesh stop me. Mid week special Announcement……

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Seriously wish that Chronic Debilitating Pain wasn’t the worst side effect to having a Transvaginal Mesh Implant!

Hello and Welcome to Afterthoughts, for westcoastmeshfighter.  My name is Michelle and I live with chronic pain and various side effects due to a Transvaginal Mesh Device.  My blog is about my Journey, how I am handling my healthcare, and how having this faulty device side effects has affected my life and the life of …

How navigating through California’s public healthcare system had me so stressed out. Here is what I know. (Part 1)

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to Afterthoughts, for westcoastmeshfighter.  My name is Michelle and I struggle everyday living with a Transvaginal Mesh Implant.  I apologize for the delay in my posts, the last couple of weeks have been a bit chaotic.  I do have a lot of updates and possible answers to questions regarding the public healthcare …

Mesh Hacks, Blogging & Vlogging Relieve with trial and error living with a Transvaginal Mesh Implant

(Graphics found on Google) Hello and Good Evening/Morning and welcome to Manic Monday.  It has been a very Manic Monday, my chronic pain is so bad I know it's going to be hard to go to sleep.  By the time anyone reads this, it will be Tuesday.  I have been a bit behind lately on …

How becoming an Advocate for TVM Patients, may have saved my Emotional Life.

Hello and Good Evening/Morning and welcome to Sundays and Small talk, where I am stuck between two worlds living with Transvaginal Mesh.  I hope everyone is well and looking forward to watching the Eclipse tonight and tomorrow.  I spent some down time this weekend as I haven't been feeling as well as I would like.  …

Why do I have energy at times when I can rest, but when I rest I have too much energy?

  Hello and Good Morning/Evening and Welcome to Afterthoughts, (WCMF).  Since I missed Manic Monday and was late with Sundays and Smalltalk, I thought that talking about chronic pain and fatigue would be a great topic, plus, some things I try to do to make my nights rest as comfortable as possible.   The last …