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Re: Ovary pain but no visible cystsFrom: anonymous@obgyn.netThu Jan 27 17:54:10 2005
At Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Rachelle wrote: > >At Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Ellen wrote: >> >>Hi everyone. I'm a bit of a crossroads, trying to make a decision about >>future treatment. I have a great young OBGYN who has given me lots of >>options... but there seem to be so many variables and unknowns. >> >>The main thing troubling me right now is a nagging pain in my ovary. >>Ultrasound results from different labs have varied wildly (fibroids, >>cyts, hemorhagghing cyts, fluid, fibroids), but the latest seems to be >>that, after 6 months on oral contraceptive, there is no visible >>pathology. >> >>I don't know what else could be causing consistent pain in my ovary, >>though I intend to ask my doctor this when I see him next week. >> >>>From the time I first started my period, I have gone through periods of >>terrible pain, which seem to ease off for a while and then return a few >>years later. I'm sure some readers could relate when I've said, at >>times, that it felt like I had a rat in my belly trying to eat it's way >>out. Now I'm 36, (deliberately) childless, and my OBGYN says I almost >>certainly have endo. However, the pain right now is actually quite >>mild. I am reluctant to sign onto long-term hormone treatment when I >>don't know for sure if I have endo. He has suggested I have a lap; but >>while laparoscopy may be less drastic than the laparotomy, it's still a >>pretty serious thing to go through, and is not guaranteed to lead to a >>diagnosis. >> >>So, on one hand, I may have a good 24 years of endo by-products growing >>away inside me, and the pain may come back full force in the future. >> >>Or, it might not. And in the meantime, I have the pain in my ovary, and >>regular nausea (unexplained - possibly from the OC), and bouts of really >>bad fatigue. >> >>Any thoughts...? >> >>-- >>L. >> >Ellen, > >I am sorry to hear that you have having these problems. > >I too have bad fatigue and pain in my left ovary (sometimes it is a >crippling pain). I was once told by a doctor that I have Endo and that >I had cysts on my ovaries. Sept. 2001 I had a Lap and the Dr. found >little traces of Endo and removed the cysts and Endo. Since then I have >a two year old daughter and the problems came back. > >I went back to this Dr. when my daughter was 7 months old to tell him >that all of my pains, fatigue, etc... was back. He told me I had two >options. 1 Lupron or 2. another Lap. > >I went for a second opinion on October 6th and showed him my Lap >pictures and asked him where was the Endo? He said that Endo was not the >factor, but Polycystic Ovary (left side) was what was causing the >problems. > >I had my blood taken for hormone test and I just had an ultra sound done >on >Friday. I talked with my new Dr. even though my ultra sound showed no >signs of the Polycycstic Ovary (you don't have to have Cysts to have >this) my blood work showed that I was lacking Progestrone (my levels >showed I should have been post-menaposal) and it also showed that I do >have P.C.O.S (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrom). > >I guess what I am suggesting is get your hormone levels tested. This >will hopefully determine if it is Endo or Fibrods or whatever. > >I will be starting my first cycle of Prometrium pill on Friday. I hope >this will help me out. I will know in about 3 months at least that is >what my Dr. told me. > >I hope I helped you out. > >Best of luck. > >-- >RachelleZ >
-- Hi, I need help. I have had pain in my right ovary for along time. It used to come on about every 3 to 6 months. It would cripple me, I would have to lay on the floor and cry and roll around until the pain stopped it iwll last from 15 to 45 minutes, and usually is so bad that I throw up. The episodes have been coming almost monthly now. And I can always tell when one is coming because about 2 weeks before I start my period I ahve terible night sweats. The ones where I have to change my close 2 or 3 times in a night and feel drained all day the next day. About 3 days or so before my period is over I usually have these attacks, they are herrific and causing my world to stop for those minutes, maybe it does not seem like a long time but when you are in that much pain on the floor crying it seems like an eternity. I have had 3 ultra sounds, they said a couple cysts, or maybe I have cysts rupturing. I have gone to the er the last time this happened and they said I had blood in my urine, I know this may be true but now they are rtrying to say kidney stones and to that I say, Once a month and only on my period, WHAT? It just does not make sense to me. I am affraid that I have ovarian cancer and they are just not looking at the right thing. To have this much pain I would just feel more confident if they could just figure it out. I am scared. Has any one out there had these same symptoms? Please help me!! Any thoughts or advice would be so helpful!! Thank You!!
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