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Re: Please read. I'm scared. Abnormal vaginal ultrasound. Endo coming back? Or something worse?
From: Paige (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri Nov 19 11:15:21 2004
I just had an ultrasound a couple weeks ago that scared me too. The
radiologist said there was something on my right ovary. She also found
something that looked like my ovary on my left side, but I don't have a
left ovary! I was scared to death and the cancer thought entered my mind
a lot too. I had my lap a few days later and I was fine...other than
some spots of endo. They don't know what caused the right ovary to look
the way it did on the ultrasound, nor do they know what was appearing on
the left side. Needless to say, I worried over nothing. My guess is
that it is the endo and adhesions. It can cause the back/leg pain and a
lot of other things.
Good luck...I'm sure everything will turn out ok.
Paige
At Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Melanie wrote:
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>Hi. This is my first time here and I'm so glad to have stumbled upon
>this site. I am hoping someone can help me as I am in a full-on panic
>over several things. I'll try not to make it too long! I have stage 4
>endo and had a laparotomy a year and 8 months ago that removed 4 huge
>endometriomas as well as tons of adhesions etc. My doctor said she
>never saw anything like it. I've been trying to conceive ever since. I
>went to a new doctor to discuss fertility and she wanted to give me a
>transvaginal ultrasound. She said my left ovary had an "irregular
>appearance". She was very vague and basically said she didn't know what
>it was and referred me to a radiologist to have a repeat ultrasound done
>on day 5 of my cycle. That's 3 weeks away and I'm so scared that this
>could be ovarian cancer. She said it wasn't a cyst, but what does that
>mean? What is an irregular appearance? She could not answer and neither
>could another doctor there. She also said the radiologist has better
>equipment and we can get a clearer picture. I didn't like their bedside
>manner and the way this all was delivered to me so I instead called the
>doctor who did my surgery and made the ultrasound appt with her. I
>figure she knows me best and I had a transvag US with her 6 months ago
>that was normal. But I can't get the cancer word out of my head. For
>the last year probably I always have a dull burning sensation in my
>pelvis and my upper thighs as well as back pain that goes down my leg a
>bit. Can these be endo symptoms coming back. Believe it or not, when I
>was diagnosed with the Stage 4 endo, I had no idea anything was even
>wrong, never felt a thing. She saw the endometrioma during an u/s. So
>I guess my questions are...has anyone had an abnormal finding on an
>ovary that turned out to be nothing? Could the symptoms I describe above
>(especially the burning legs) be part of endo even though I had no
>symptoms the first time? Can endo turn into cancer? I'm 33 years old and
>my maternal grandmother died of ovarian cancer when she was 64. Thanks
>for reading!
>
>--
>Melanie
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