WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for September, 2002: Re: ovarian cyst?

Re: ovarian cyst?

From: Curious (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 13 Sep 2002 05:26:28 -0500 (CDT)

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If it helps any, at 40 you may be in perimenopause, when its not unusual for your cycles and ovaries and hormones to get a little mixed up. We normally form a simple (functional) cyst on an ovary at menses, its part of the normal cycle. I am 60, 10 years past menopause. CT scan found an apparent simple cyst on one ovary, unusual after menopause, but not at all unknown. Ultrasounds also indicate it is a simple cyst (of course no guarantees it is simple). Because I also have Crohn's disease I made an appt at Cleveland Clinic. They have a gyn/onco there whose special interest is gyn problems in women w/Crohn's disease. I know that most of the literature you find on the net says little about ovarian cysts in menopausal women except that a laparascoy should be done. BUT, if you look hard enough you will find that the latest advice is to adopt a wait and see approach. The usual recommendation is ultrasounds at 3 months, 3 months, 6 months, 6 months, one year and annually thereafter as long as there is no change. This was the same recommendation as my local gyn so I am following their advice.

The fact that you have pain tho would cause me to be more proactive if I were you. You are the one experiencing the pain not your doctors or their staff. Push harder and good luck and God bless. >
>At Thu, 12 Sep 2002, kim wrote:
>>
>>I have been bleeding since june 21st did not stop until set 7th, my
>>period has lasted for 15 or so days since april, I have gone to the doc
>>and the did an ultra sound foud a tiny cysts or they think (you do not
>>know unless you look at it)!!inside, I am bloated and I have had alot of
>>pain, I am lmost 40 yrs old, I figure just as in your tonsils you dont
>>need it and it causes you trouble take it out!!!but I get a doc that
>>thinks I should wait and see!!! what does that mean? I think that if it
>>was just a cyst it would have gone away before now!!!!!!!!

>
>Probably you are not ovulating properly,I don't know of what origin.
>--
>Alicia M. Lapidus M.D.

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