Palpable Lump in Lower Left Pelvis

[millyskye3]

Hello,
I am very very anxiously currently and my health anxiety has flared up really badly.
I am 12 weeks pregnant and over the last 5 weeks have been able to feel a large grape sized lump in my lower pelvis where you would think your ovary would sit. I had an early pregnancy ultrasound and baby is well and the lady said my ovary was normal and it wouldn’t be that which I could feel. She wasn’t qualified to look anywhere else on the scan. It is firm, rubbery and very mobile but always sits back in that location on the lower left side deep.
I am currently waiting on an USS, I’ve had bloods taken and a stool sample too.
To say I am utterly catastrophising would be an understatement. I have two other young children and this worry is robbing me of my pregnancy happiness not to mention Christmas and new year!
I have previously had two c sections, one only a year ago. I have managed to convince myself this is cancer, which as lymphoma or bowel cancer.
Has anyone had anything similar that turned out to me nothing concerning?
Thankyou. X

Are you sure this isn’t a hernia?

It’s highly unlikely to be cancer. I think your health anxiety is running away with you. If they thought it was cancer thou would have been investigated fully within 2 weeks (generally). You wouldn’t be waiting for an USS. I had two massive lumps that grew and grew over many years. Eventually had them removed as harmless lipomas.

Defo get off google, calm yourself, distract yourself with positive activities and enjoy your Christmas and NY. Xx

I’ve been referred for an USS under the two week pathway so it should be fairly soon. I’ve got a firm lymph node under my jaw which has been this for years and this feels like that but on a much bigger scale. I can feel where my sigmoid colon is and this is below that. I have been able to get by the last few weeks as I was told I had ovulated from the left ovary and I had a large cyst there which was normal so I had told myself that it was I could palpate but now that’s been ruled out. The panic has set in. It’s so hard when health anxiety spirals like this. Haven’t had a flare up in two years and being pregnant this time has made it much more worrying. X

It’s very low in my pelvis, mobile but feels as though it’s connected. It’s just feel like a completely smooth large rubbery grape. Is that what a hernia feels like?

Smooth, rubbery and mobile doesn't really sound like a cancerous tumour. It's good to have it checked out, but from what you've said, it's much more likely to be some form of cyst or lipoma. Try not to worry (easier said than done, but Dr Google is not your friend in these situations).

Thankyou for taking the time to reply. I just can’t stop coming across a certain type of lymphoma which does present as mobile and firm. I google and google for hours when I get a moment to, in hope that I will get some form of reassurance but it only opens the hole wider. Can lipomas be so deep? X

Oh sorry, when you said low down I thought you meant low down as in near the groin rather than low down as in deep. I think lipomas are generally under the skin, but there are still lots of other innocent explanations. Are you suffering from night sweats, fevers?

If you are really worried and the two weeks feels like forever, would a private USS be an option? For peace of mind so you can enjoy Christmas.

Yes you need to push down to feel it. No but I have got very itchy skin all over which I’d put down to pregnancy hormones drying my skin out. Other than that nothing else.

I think if you can’t stop coming across worrying stuff online, you need to ban online until you get your investigations done.

Is it helping you? No
Is it making the whole thing worse? Yes
Is it therefore worth doing? Absolutely not! X