Refer to research study abstract @:http://content.karger.com/produktedb/produkte.asp?typ=fulltext&file=ESR2004036005318
This is a adverse side effect which is more often ignored rather that the more obvious problems like chronic pain. The symptoms of lower testosterone can include:
Depression
Irritability
Fatigue
Low libido
Lack of libido
Postural problems
Increase blood pressure
Loss of muscle
Exercise consistently but can't add lean muscle
Loss of muscular strength
Loss of muscular endurance
Physical height reduction
Soft erections
Sleep disorders

I'm interested to know how many others are experiencing the same adverse effects.

This is a "rat model" study, and has not been replicated in humans. But I am sure these symptoms are of concern to rats considering their hernia repair.

what would be the difference in a rat model, dog model, pig model, doctor? The mesh failed in all of them (all published articles). I would certainly think it would hold true for humans also! But you get paid the same either way, right? Success or failure! The poster was just drawing attention to a published article of another in a long line of complications from these mesh products.

Excerpt from NIH document regarding mesh and fertility study: Eight hundred thousand groin hernia repairs are performed annually in the United States, of which approximately 90% are now mesh repairs.6 Given the fact that inguinal hernias occur at all ages of life and inguinal herniorrhaphies are performed in sizable numbers of patients who are still planning to bear children, why then are we not seeing an epidemic of infertility? Do these 14 patients (in the study) represent a subset that is exquisitely sensitive to the normal fibroblastic response to mesh?

How dare these people use a group of poor defenseless rats to determine the effects of something on humans. Since that rat is obviously more advanced than humans when it comes to mental capacities and physical capabilities there is no reason to even do this study, the effects on us lowly humans will obviously be the same.

C'mon! How on earth did they shrink the human size mesh into a tiny little rat size patch and get in near or around its tiny spermatic cord? Was it lap or open? How many rats did they use in the study? Or was it just A rat study? (one rat)

Hi,I posted last week a couple of times, asking just that how does stuff like medical devices get used in lab aniamls.??? I asked as to isn't their blood line pure breed??? Isn't it different from human?? I don't remember where down the forum I posted it, but it was in lie with the different names for the plastic involved in making the mesh.