For a common surgical tool, mesh is certainly attracting a lot of controversy. Just ask Chrissy Brajcic. She was a healthy, happily married mom of two boys, with a thriving interior design business. Today, she is house bound and bed-ridden, battling constant infections and chronic pain after getting a plastic mesh implant to treat a common female disorder.

W5 speaks with patients who say their lives have been taken away from them after medical mesh was implanted in their bodies. The use of medical mesh is still being debated in the medical community in spite of worldwide calls for bans and class action lawsuits.

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Dr. John Morrison says if one out of every 80 or 90 patients experiences pain, a substantial number of patients will be having a problem.