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Scared of my ovaries ...

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AuthorsOfForever · 16/10/2020 22:32

I just needed to get this out of my brain, I'm not sure anyone would have an answer for me.

Bit of back story, around 5 years ago, I have serious abdominal pains. I thought I had bad trapped wind. I've had seriously painful wind before, but two nights in a row, I vomited with the pain. And I commented to my friends how weird it was. Anyway, after 2 nights, the 3rd day was horrific. I could not move without serious pain. Looking back, I'm convinced I was in and out of consciousness. But didn't realise at the time. I spoke to my mum, and she told me to call 111. They sent an ambulance. The paramedics decided to take me to a&e when I couldn't go from sitting to laying without serious serious pain. I went in the ambulance. They did a blood test, rules out ectopic pregnancy. Realised I was severely aneamic. Gave me a blood transfusion. They x rayed me and saw my abdomen was filled with blood. They couldn't see anything. So I got a CT scan. Because of the amount of blood, they could not see a thing. They could not see where I was bleeding from. So, they cut me open. Right down my middle. (Must have been horrific!) and determined that I had a haemoragic cyst, that bled out and I lost like 80% of my blood or something. It was one of the most terrifying things that has ever happened to me. My son was 3 at the time. I so almost died. And it scares me sometimes. Doesn't help that a I have a horrific scar to remind me daily.

Anyway, the last few days, I keep feeling a weird twinge in the area I assume my left ovary to be. It doesn't really hurt, but every now and then I can feel it. And I just can't stop thinking of my last ovary issue. I googled that ovulation can feel similar. And that's reassured me, but I don't ever recall feeling this before. And all felt before my exploding cyst, was a sharp POP the night before I started feeling the pain. I can't find out much about haemorrhaging cysts.

I'm sure it's fine. But how would I even be able to stop this happening again? I didn't even know it was a thing until it almost killed me.

OP posts:
Pelleas · 16/10/2020 22:43

I'm sorry you had such a horrendous experience, OP.

I had a large ovarian endometrioma - it wasn't haemorrhagic but the pain was some of the worst I've ever had. I've had my ovaries removed now, thankfully - I would never want to go through that again.

I think the best thing to do is get it checked out as soon as you can. I'm well aware it's not easy getting anywhere with the NHS at the moment, but I think you should at least start the ball rolling and speak to your GP. The twinge may well be nothing but you understandably won't have peace of mind, given your history, until you know that for sure. You will probably feel for doing something, rather than if you sit there worrying and Googling.

Hoping everything works out OK Flowers.

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