CarolBook
09-10-08, 10:14
Hello everyone
This is my first post on this forum, and I'm so glad that I've found out that other people panic as much as I do when I get pains.
I think most of my worry stems from the fact my Mum died a couple of years ago from Pancreatic Cancer and hers wasn't detected until it was too late to treat effectively.
My problem is with my ovaries. I normally get pain on ovulating, but a few months ago, I had constant lower stomach pain - this lasted for a few weeks, continuing right through a period. It eventually went away, so I assumed I'd had some sort of infection.
However, I'm still getting pain in my right ovary which is similar to the ovulation pain.
A couple of nights ago (and sorry to sound coarse) I passed a very hard poo, and which made my ovary hurt more, then a few minutes afterwards I was in excruciating pain - so much so that I couldn't sit, stand or lie down comfortably and literally had to writhe around (I'm normally quite good with pain, and this was really really bad). Luckily it went off after 15 mins or so, but I've been left with a small amount of pain in my right ovary again - it feels like it's infected as it's throbbing pain rather than achy pain.
I've googled (like everyone does) and panicked about ovarian cancer etc, but I feel symptoms are more like an ovarian cyst.
Has anyone ever had one of these and suffered similar symptoms
Thanks so much
Carol
This is my first post on this forum, and I'm so glad that I've found out that other people panic as much as I do when I get pains.
I think most of my worry stems from the fact my Mum died a couple of years ago from Pancreatic Cancer and hers wasn't detected until it was too late to treat effectively.
My problem is with my ovaries. I normally get pain on ovulating, but a few months ago, I had constant lower stomach pain - this lasted for a few weeks, continuing right through a period. It eventually went away, so I assumed I'd had some sort of infection.
However, I'm still getting pain in my right ovary which is similar to the ovulation pain.
A couple of nights ago (and sorry to sound coarse) I passed a very hard poo, and which made my ovary hurt more, then a few minutes afterwards I was in excruciating pain - so much so that I couldn't sit, stand or lie down comfortably and literally had to writhe around (I'm normally quite good with pain, and this was really really bad). Luckily it went off after 15 mins or so, but I've been left with a small amount of pain in my right ovary again - it feels like it's infected as it's throbbing pain rather than achy pain.
I've googled (like everyone does) and panicked about ovarian cancer etc, but I feel symptoms are more like an ovarian cyst.
Has anyone ever had one of these and suffered similar symptoms
Thanks so much
Carol