PCOS Messages for January, 2002: Re: Abdominal Pain as a symptom of PCOS?

Re: Abdominal Pain as a symptom of PCOS?

From: April (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 26 Jan 2002 09:40:38 -0600 (CST)

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At Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Del wrote: >
>I've read quite a few messages from women in this forum who experience
>some level of adominal pain. There seem to be many possiblities (endo,
>adhesions, gallbladder, pancrease, rupturing cysts, etc.) The strange
>thing is that with all the research I've done on PCOS, I've never seen
>admonimal pain listed as a symptom. Quite a few of the people in this
>forum experience excrutiating, unexplained pain at random intervals. It
>seems if it was that common, I'd see it listed with acne and male
>patterned baldness, neither of which seems as big of a deal as
>unremitting pain.
>
>Anyone out there know of research/studies looking at adominal pain?
>
>My daughter is 16 and was diagnosed with PCOS in September. We can live
>with most of the symptoms pretty easily, but she's been to the ER 3
>times in the past year with uncontrollable pain. It is breaking my
>heart, there appears to be nothing we can do for her, except pain
>medication. She is unable to stand up, walk or breath deeply. The pain
>seems to appear in the area of her gallbladder, appendix or uterus, and
>sometimes feels like it is putting pressure on her bowel. It is
>stabbing in nature and lasts for about 2 days. The area affected is
>very painful to touch.
>
>They rulled out everything above, except for rupturing cysts, but from
>what I've read, most PCOS people have very small cysts, the doctor
>described my daughters as peals wrapped around her ovaries. There were
>no really large cysts.
>
>She is on birth control pills, but nothing else, since her insulin blood
>work came back okay. I've read one post that said someone was
>experiencing pain until they were put on glucophage and then the pains
>stopped, has anyone else experienced this?
>
>One ER docter said that cysts, even small ones, can release blood or
>other fulids that might irritate near-by organs or the peretinium (sorry
>for the spelling) and cause localized unexplained pain. Has anyone ever
>heard of this?
>
>I'd appreciate any ideas or help you might have. This is an awful way
>to be a 16 year old.
>
>--
>Del Rae
>grosed@fes.com
>

As a teen I too had severe pain. When it got so bad that I saw a doctor about it, all they found was an enlarged ovary covered with small cysts. YES, rupturing cysts can hurt. I imagine this may be part of it. Have they looked for endometriosis (uterine lining that grows outside the uterus and on organs)? Many women have severe pain with this and they had to be diagnosed using laparoscopy (incision near bellybutton and look around with a tiny camera). Talk to the doc about endometriosis.

--
Nightshade

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