I'm hoping you ladies can help me...I'm at my wit's end
I'm 29 and have had heavy, painful periods my whole life. A lot of the pain is focused in my left ovary. I've gone through periods of time where I get cramps near the ovary for months, then it's gone. And I usually don't stress about it too much, was always normal to me I guess? I had an ultrasound about 10 year ago? She said it was nothing, pointed out follicles.
Recently, I've had the worst month of HA, possibly of my life. Bloating, concentrated, pretty sustained cramps/dull ache in my left ovary area, some diarrhea, bloating, lower left back pain, weird achy/pulled feeling in my upper left leg. It's driven my anxiety through the roof. I had a CBC blood test about 6 months ago for something else and it was fine.
Does anyone have any encouragement? Does my age help at all in it not being the dreaded OC? I can't work up the courage to go to the doctors (let alone my fear of going to the gyno in general)...I'm so worried about what they could find. I'm also worried I'm wasting away my hopefully "healthy" years on things like this.