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Re: update: invisible ovary problems - have you experienced different ultrasound results?
From: Shawna (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue Nov 23 14:03:53 2004
Hi there! I can relate to you. I went from horrible pain to barely any
then back to horrible pain in about an 8 month time period. Of course
they did two ultrasounds when I had very little pain, the first one
saying that they couldn't find my ovaries but my doesn't her uterus look
nice, the second (an endovaginal - ouch!!!) showed many smallish cysts
on both ovaries, more on my left but my pain was on my right. Different
technicians preformed the ultrasounds, different radiologists examined
the results. I would say there was a huge difference. Also - with the
one that couldn't find my ovaries, why didn't the tech tell me then and
we could try something else? Did she not notice that the ovaries she was
looking at on the screen were not really there? Odd.
Best of luck with the lap!
Shawna
At Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Ellen wrote:
>
>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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