HELP?! Stabbing pain near ovaries

[Mardeen]

Hello all, hoping someone will be able to help me.

Four years ago I had to have a laparoscooy for adhesions, after 18 months of being told nothing was wrong with me. It turns out my uterus and left ovary were healed into the insicion on the inside.

Fast forward to now, I'm having the same pains in my stomach, I asked for a hysterectomy (personal reasons) which was denied because they wouldn't remove my ovaries, but I was told I could be sterilised and as that was happening, they would remove any other adhesions while I was under.

But back in July I got an awful stabbing in my right hand side, it knocked me off my feet and was worse that a contraction. Because of Covid, my doctoe sent me straight to A&E suspecting it was my appendix. All tests came back fine on organs but my uterus etc was never checked as they were the surgical team, not gynaecologists.

I'm still left with the pain, comes and goes, lasts around 30 seconds max and then goes away. Has anyone had anything similar? I am booked in to see the gynae soon but I suspect they'll do nothing til the theatres are open again and my original operation can go ahead.

Any help would be massively appreciated! Thanks all x

Could it be an endometrioma on your right ovary? It sounds similar to the pain I experienced with this. A trans-vaginal ultrasound would pick this up, that's how mine was originally spotted before surgical investigation.

I was fortunate in that I was 'allowed' a hysterectomy and oophorectomy - my endometriosis had damaged everything irreparably, also had fibroids and adenomyosis.

You really need another laparoscopy to find out exactly what's going on and what the best treatment is. You say they are reluctant to take your ovaries out but a hysterectomy doesn't include ovary removal as 'standard'; you can also have a single ovary removed and the other left in.

Hoping you can make progress in these difficult times. Hospital near me is still doing ultrasounds so if surgical investigation isn't an option that might be something to discuss with your consultant.

Thank you for your reply.

I was booked in for surgery back in September but was cancelled last minute. It was only then that I started researching a hysterectomy whilst leaving ovaries behind, and I'm booked in with the consultant to discuss this and what the new pains could be. Even if he can't help immediately, at least I will have an idea and it'll put my mind at rest.

Our hospitals aren't doing anything at the moment unless it's urgent, I'm just hoping I will be approved to have my uterus removed. I'm 38 and have two children so I can't see why they didn't give me the option to have my uterus removed 🤷‍♀️

I had exactly the same, in to A&E for suspected appendicitis then had CT scan for kidney too but everything came back clear.

Very long story all in all (off and on pains (stabbing, pulling, throbbing, burning - you name it!)), but eventually referred myself to a private gynaecologist as I suspected endometriosis, he did internal exam and internal ultrasound which confirmed my right ovary is stuck to my uterus likely caused by endo/adhesions so I am booked in for laparoscopy next week xx

Thank you so much for your response.

Did you find that the pains just came on all of a sudden one day and kind of never went away? This pain is completely seperate to the adhesions I know are on my left side (my previous laparoscopy took adhesions away from there too). Never had any pain in my right side except for the first time it happened, and the pain went away within 30nseconds, then 5 days later the one that ended up sending me to A&E! xx

I never had any pains at all but then seemed to have been triggered by MMC in the summer and had the pain since then - varies in intensity and type of pain but always there. Was stabby type pain when I went to A&E and that feeling comes and goes, constant dull ache with pulling feeling xx