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update: invisible ovary problems - have you experienced different ultrasound results?From: Ellen (anonymous@obgyn.net)Tue Nov 23 10:01:18 2004
Hello to all the women out there, puzzling over this same problem we're all experiencing: I posted a week or two ago about having pain in my ovary despite ultrasound results that did not show any problems. This past Thursday, the pain suddenly escalated, coming in waves where I was shouting with pain. I thought it might be my appendix, even though it didn't present in an appendicitis kind of way - but, hey! I was sure I didn't have any cysts. Wrong! An ultrasound at the hospital yesterday showed that I definitely have a simple cyst on that ovary. In addition, the radiologist thought there could also be a collapsed hemorrhagic cyst right in the ovary itself. (I've never heard of having a cyst inside the ovary -- have you??). I have mentioned this pain in my ovary to my OBGYN all summer long, but there was never any imaging to support it, and the pain was relatively mild. Moreover, I was on oral contraceptive, which is supposed to reduce or get rid of cysts. Thankfully I'm seeing him tommorow and get his opinion on these developments. What really is nagging at me, though, is that this problem has been going on for a while, but the ultrasound results kept missing it; the problems have been allowed to get to the point where it's excruciating, when they might have been prevented. I am thinking that ultrasound is a very fallible technology. I have been to about four or five different labs, because I've had real patient-care issues with them. Each lab I've gone to has given me wildly variable results - I've got fibroids - no I don't; I've got multiple cysts - I have no cysts at all; my uterus is getting large - no, it's the same size. Now I've gone to a hospital, where the sonologist was very thorough (damn, that hurt!!) and the test results came back consistent with my complaint (though they couldn't find my appendix... I wonder why??). Have others had such differing results from different clinics? And does anyone know what the variables are in ultrasound technology that can lead to such different conclusions? Guess I'll be signing up for a laparoscopy, to see if we can get to the bottom of all of this. My best to you all.
-- Ellen
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