I'm all for waiting. If it gets very painful you can always go through with it, but once you've done it you can't go back.

I don't exactly regret the surgery but since I discovered what a difference eliminating sugar from my diet made, I wish I could go back and try that before going through a major abdominal surgery. I mean, it was really scary for me. I'd never had a surgery before, and some "helpful" friend just couldn't wait to tell me about so-and-so's wife who died of a blood clot immediately after her hysterectomy. (I mentioned this to the doc afterwards...he said "Oh you heard about her? Well she smoked and was overweight.")

I had the cancer scare too, but now I know a little more, and one high CA125 doesn't actually mean much. I'd have been ok with a little more wait and see, and repeat that test to see which way it's going, so long as we were doing something to combat the repetitively rupturing ovarian cyst. I've done those tests myself in the lab, I know how they work, and sometimes you just get an aberrant result.

Anyway, whatever you decide, great. Like I said I don't regret it, it all turned out fine, I just in retrospect wish I'd tried one more thing, before having a major surgery. Just so I'd know.