Hi all, hopefully I can explain this without too much confusion. I was diagnosed with uterine fibroids via ultrasound about Christmas time '09 after six or nine months of constant bleeding. The bleeding would be very heavy at points and less so at others.
I was advised to go on the depo or mirena, and opted for the depo. It stopped all bleeding, and everything was hunkydory except my moods, so I didn't have another shot.
Bleeding wasn't too bad, it was irregular, I could go two months without any at all, then have a month of light/normal bleeding. This was not good for my sex life and made me miserable.
Fast forward to June this year and after throwing up on father's day from excrutiating pain I ended up in an ambulance (could've been my appendix they said as it was concerntrated down my right side). I was kept in over night and sent for various scans, finally being told I had cysts on both ovaries. Discharge notes also pointed out a retroverted uterus and small amount of fluid in my pouch of douglas. Hospital consultant said my GP would refer me to a gynaecologist.
Saw a GP as mine was on holiday, and he said the cysts were likely hormonal and due to that time of the month. To take my pain killers and then go back in a month.
Is it likely that it was hormonal, on both ovaries? I haven't had huge amounts of pain, but I am constantly tired, feel like I have stitch in my right side (where pain was) all the time that gets worse sometimes and so I take my codeine. I'm peed off, I feel like I should have seen a gynae when the fibroids were first diagnosed, and am wondering if PCOS is a possibilty (I am overweight etc).
Do I have the right to see a GP and ask to be referred even though I haven't been in such huge pain again?
To top it all off I'm a paranoid whiner and worried it might actually be the big c. Eeek! Thank you, and major props if you made tis far and don't think I'm an annoying hyperchondriac ;)