Quote Originally Posted by zoom-zoom View Post
HOLY crap!!! I've read about them that size. Did they have symptoms prior to diagnosis? I haven't had anything that stands out (aside from relatively minor bladder and bowel symptoms, which could be as much from endometriosis as the cyst -- the endo is likely responsible for that, too). I'm still nervous to hear the result of the blood work I had yesterday, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that no news is good news. At 40 I am not at much risk of it being cancer...especially after having had a child, lactation for a year, years on BCPs, etc. Part of me thinks I may take this opportunity to push for removal of that ovary and my uterus. I don't need them anymore and if I'm gonna continue to have issues like this it makes sense to remove them.
Mom had said for a while that it felt like there was "something" not right. It wasn't until the doctor could feel it that she was believed. (Grrr to male doc's that don't listen) My friend felt nothing until she ended up in the ER in extreme pain.