WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for September, 2002: Re: ultrasound question

Re: ultrasound question

From: Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 1 Sep 2002 21:30:05 -0500 (CDT)

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Ovarian cyst, endometriosis, adhesions, over-zealous. That's my first round guesses.

Dr. M

At Sun, 1 Sep 2002, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote: >
>I recently had a pelvic and transvaginal ultrasound done last week at an
>off base medical center...after experiencing bleeding, bloating and some
>sharp pains... and they were both extremely painful, to the point I was
>holding the sides of the exam table very tightly. I was surprised,
>because I have a very high pain threshold. It definitely hurt most on
>the right during the transvaginal ultrasound, when she was trying to
>find my right ovary. What could cause a high level of pain like that
>during an ultrasound? Thanks, I appreciate your help very much.
>
>(Our military hospital has been closed, except for ER, since
>Thursday...though I did have a call from one of my family practice dr's
>on Friday, following up on some labwork that another dr had done in Dec,
>which showed that I'm pretty anemic...that was the first time I'd heard
>about it...though once a few years back, labs came back as slightly
>anemic).

--
Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. FACOG, FACS
Great Neck, New York

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