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What illnesses cause same symptoms as ovarian cancer?

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jennymanara · 16/08/2019 12:22

I don't have ovarian cancer, being tested for it - blood test and scan. But they don't seem to know what I have. So what other things causes the same types of symptoms? Symptoms are feeling like I constantly need to pee, bloating, gas, occasional spasm like pain in abdomen, loose stools, tiredness, some bachache and size of abdomen has increased. It came on very suddenly about 3 months ago.
I am being tested for bowel cancer now. I think that is unlikely though. IBS has been suggested, but symptoms like feeling I need to pee are there all the time. Only the spasms are intermittent. Everything else is constant and seems to be getting worse.
I am not saying by the way I have anything serious, I just want to know what I do have. My DP has a very rare illness and I know if you have something rare it can take far longer to get it diagnosed. So is there anything non obviosu that fits these symptoms?

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MuthaFluffa · 16/08/2019 12:27

I went to the doctor not so long ago with similar symptoms.
After much googling, I told the doctor I had diagnosed myself with either ovarian cancer or coeliac disease.
Fortunately the blood test for ovarian cancer came back normal. The coeliac blood test did not.
Since changing my diet the loose stools have improved dramatically. I'm yet to see a massive difference with the bloating.
Have you been checked for coeliac disease?

jennymanara · 16/08/2019 12:29

No I haven't, that had not even occurred to me so thanks.

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MuthaFluffa · 16/08/2019 12:39

It could well be that. I had all of your symptoms. Apart from the needing to pee, but that could be associated with the bloating.

Get tested. My doctor told me it wouldn't be coeliac 🙄 but I insisted on getting the test.

Good luck!

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jennymanara · 16/08/2019 12:52

Thanks. It is feeling I need to pee all the time that does not really fit with anything except ovarian cancer, which I don't have. Yes perhaps bloating could cause that, it was the first symptom I noticed.

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MuthaFluffa · 16/08/2019 13:01

Have you been checked for a uti?

Get them to check for diabetes too, excessive peeing can be a symptom of that.
But I definitely had all of your other symptoms with the coeliac disease.
I hope it's something simple and nothing to worry about!

MuthaFluffa · 16/08/2019 13:03

Actually, have you took a pregnancy test?

Barefootinthecarpark · 16/08/2019 13:04

Fibroids

jennymanara · 16/08/2019 13:08

Have been checked for UTI and fibroids and pregnancy. The thought of being pregnant in my fifties was the scariest of all.

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Barefootinthecarpark · 16/08/2019 13:10

Ovarian cysts?

jennymanara · 16/08/2019 13:36

Had an ultra sound scan so I would have thought that would pick it up?

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