This is a bit of a long one but really hoping for some shared thoughts.
Back in November I started experiencing a pain behind my belly button which slowly moved down to the right hand side. I saw a GP at the beginning of January who thought it was a grumbling appendix and sent me away telling me to go to A & E if it got worse. A few days later I could barely walk, knowing how stretched the NHS is I thought it would be better to call 111, who gave me an appointment with another GP. Again suspected appendicitis so sent me to the Surgical Assesment Unit at our nearest hospital. Once there they took my blood and decided it wasn’t my appendix but thought it was a hernia, the following day they did an ultrasound (just on my tummy, not internal) and didn’t find anything so sent me home with laxatives 🥴 even though I wasn’t in the slightest bit constipated! The pain continued so I went back to the GP, the referred me for another ultrasound which I had in February. With the ultrasound I had whilst in the hospital they said they couldn’t see my right ovary at all as it was so small, the results from my second ultrasound (tummy and internal) they said my right ovary is very enlarged and has a few cysts. How can it go from being so small to very enlarged in a month?!?! GP referred me to Gynaecology and told to come back if the pain gets worse etc. The pain has been constant and I now have other symptoms, back pain, dizziness, shortness of breath and watery discharge. I saw the GP yesterday who has sent an urgent referral for another ultrasound and moved my Gynaecologist appointment forward. I have a very strong family history of cancer so as you can probably imagine I am fearing the worst.
Could it just be cysts?
Does anyone have a similar story or anything?
I don’t really have anyone to talk to so thought I would try here.
Thank you for reading if you have got this far ☺️