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Re: Please read. I'm scared. Abnormal vaginal ultrasound. Endo coming back? Or something worse?
From: Melanie (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri Nov 19 11:26:36 2004
Thanks Paige! Your post made me feel better. I guess ultrasounds are
far from perfect sometimes! I hope that is the case with me.
At Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Paige wrote:
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>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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