My doctor sent me home with no pain killers at all and didn’t even tell me how to make the pain go away. I’m sitting here with aching pains throughout my lower abdomen. Anadin extra doesn’t work. I’ve only had 2 hours of sleep today (It’s 11.43pm in England) because of the pain. How can I get to sleep without giving up because of the pain??

my cousin has a ovarian cyst and the dr gave her birth control for it. the doctor said the cyst is 4 centimeters and thats too small to do surgery on.

I don’t really have a question. I’m looking for another perspective or just your opinion.
A woman I work with (who doesn’t take very good care of herself-bad diet, smoker, no exercise, etc) has been in and out of the hospital recently. She had an ovarian cyst which ruptured causing extreme pain. She got it taken care of, but her doctor told her one of her larger cysts could have ruptured and caused many more problems. She said it was a "blessing"?!
Yesterday I was watching an interview with Kevin Everett, the Buffalo Bills player who suffered the spinal cord injury and is making a good recovery. He is just starting to walk on his own and can freely move his arms. Again, he said he has been "blessed" and he "thanks God" for his recovery and his life. Why? Isn’t the reason he is alive and walking because of the quick medical response and the huge advances science has made in the field of spinal cord injuries? I don’t get it.
When I get sick and a doctor cures me, I give credit to the doctor. I haven’t been ill for a long time, for which I credit a relatively healthy lifestyle. When I fractured my ankle years ago, I knew it was my fault for the way I landed while rebounding in basketball. When the ankle healed, I knew it was because of the medical advice/attention I received. I take blame when I am at fault and try to give credit where credit is due. Is it just me (and a few others)?
Linda, why do you assume I view everything "in the negative"? That’s a fairly bizarre statement. Negative things happen. People who say "well, it could have been worse" are kidding themselves and delusional. Of course it could have been worse! I could get sick at any point in time. I try to prevent it. How is that a negative thing?
Bourbon, I understand what you are saying, but that is generally not true. People have an easy time SAYING they will change (you know, the alcoholic who wakes up and promises to never drink again….), but people rarely change. I look beyond words to actions, which is where I have a hard time understanding why people simply pay lip service to their God. The woman I work with was going to talk more to me, but she was on her way out the door for her smoke break. Go figure. Kevin Everett got injured making a dangerous play in a dangerous sport. If he is able to fully recover quickly, what do you think he’ll do? I’m guessing play football. That’s what happens.
Again, for those of you who insist that "God spared" their lives…..would both people not have (more than likely) died without prompt medical attention? Would that be considered God not sparing their lives?
To the point of our medical advances being a "blessing", I see your point,b but that does not seem to me to be what the two people were referring to when they said they were blessed. Neither of them said anything about the blessing being the medical advances or the doctor’s care. They simply referenced God. You may view our technological advances as being allowed by God, I simply don’t see the point of that. Again, that’s just me.
Joseph, what was the miracle? Could you define that term? It seems that there is a perfectly rational explanation for both injuries and recoveries. I hardly consider that to be a miracle. I would think there would be many more Saints, according to the Catholic Church, if using medical techniques/treatments to help someone was considered a miracle.
Ecterbob (hi, by the way), I am with you until a point. You say you shouldn’t thank the insurance comany because they did not heal you. Agreed. The doctors and nurses did. Thank them. Why the need to take it any further? Isn’t that it. You were sick. The doctor helped you. Say thanks to the doctor and be grateful that you have good insurance to pay for it!
Padme, I’m not going to pretend. If I did, I might as well pretend invisible fairies had a hand in it.
Wilder, I think you need to seek a different doctor. I have never met one (not to say they aren’t out there) who couldn’t offer a reasonable explanation for why I was sick/injured.
As far as the insistence many of you have that "what’s the big deal, they just wanted to thank God for the ability and availability of their doctor’s and for the possibility of the treatment", neither person in my scenarios said anything to that affect. Again, they simply thanked God,. You are inferring what you want, but it is not necessaily true. They both had ample opportunity to express their gratitude to God for allowing/helping such things as their treatment, but neither did. They both stopped short of doing so.
Obviously I completely disagree with most of you, but I thank you for your input, as I do have a better understanding.
Laura, doctors and medical professionals know full well why those things occur. The chances of someone recovering from a spinal cord injury, such as that suffered by Everett, depend a great deal on the quickness of the response. It is well documented and known. Many medical professionals at the time of the incident explained this point. If he had been in a car wreck and sat there for half an hour before receiving treatment, his chances for recovery would have greatly diminished. He was hurt on a football field with medical professionals standing by. They knew immediately what the scenario was and were able to take the appropriate precautions within minutes to greatly increase his odds of recovery. I don’t think you give the medical community nearly enough credit.
Doctors understand a great deal (perhaps not everything) about transplant patients and whether they will "take to" a particular organ. The medical community, so far as I know, did not give up trying to understand and say "only God knows why this works/doesn’t work". They seek the answers and have gained a much greater understanding. the odds of a person having a successful transplant have greatly increased in the past several decades. Are you inplying God just decided to make them more successful recently?
Ecterbob…ture enough and simply put. Thanks! Vittoria, right on point.
Barak, Young, again you are missing vital information. I picked the Kevin Everett story on purpose because doctors DID know exactly what it took to greatly increase his chances of a full recovery. Mny of you are quick to say "yeah, well some people don’t recover from those injuries". No kidding. That’s exactly the point. Some don’t recover AND THERE IS A MEDICAL EXPLANATION! Simply because Sportscenter kept repeating how he could have been paralyzed or that some doctors say "he may never walk again" does not play to the truth of the situation. Medical professionals explained the type of injury, what kind of treatment and how quickly the treatment would be needed in order to increase his odds of recovering. He got those things. It’s not some "medical mystery" beyond our comprehension.
Apaarently this is a large part of why I am an atheist. I seek answers and reasons for why things are. I am not content to see something, declare it miraculous, throw up my hands and thank God. These people should be glad the doctor’s did not do that, too. If the medical coommunity were to simply accept that some things are beyond their control and understanding, I can guarantee you one thing - Kevin Everett would not be walking today. It is only because of advances in medicine, years studying this type of injury, etc. that doctor’s knew what to do. Many of you thank God for the ability of doctors to understand such things. I do not (which is obviously where we differ) simply because I see no reason to.

Thanks again for all of the thoughtful answers.

For about 5 months I have been having an unusual "lump" on my right abdomen where my large colon is; the doctor thought maybe colon spasms.
I have also had a feeling of abdominal fullness and feelings of bloating, pressure, and slight constipation at times.
I have change my diet to eat healthier I took colon spasm medicine.
I still have this problem, then last week end right as my "extra long" menstrual cycle finishes up, I began have menstrual-like cramping over my whole pelvic; it would come and good for about 4 days with no blood. No abnormal smells.
I went in for a sonogram and they found a "golf ball" size cyst inside my right ovary. When he felt it, it seemed to be under the problem I was having about my "colon". I am thinking it is not my colon now.
I have recently started getting just all around tummy pains since last week, back ache; bloating that never goes away, decreased appetite, pelvic pressure, feeling of fullness, pain’ hurts to take deep breath, hurts on my left side where my left ovary is, hurts to walk. It hurts to poop and I feel constipated too. It even hurts my butt area inside to just sit. Just all around abdominal discomfort. Since my doctors visit It is like everyday I feel worse and worse. I feel like sh!t.

Any advice?

Can ovarian cysts prevent your period from coming? I went to the doctors and had an ultra sound,due to my missed periods.And It showed that I has multiple cysts on both ovaries.I have no other symptoms of PCOS,and the doctor said nothing about it.Just that she would put me on birth control and provera,and that I was perfectly fine.I just turned 18 and I have always been regular and healthy,what causes these cysts and how do you know if it’s PCOS? is there any other types of Ovarian cysts that do the same thing? (without PCOS symptoms..Acne,weight gain,insulin resistance..etc) I’m very confused about all this,and I want to know what I should be looking for,Incase I do need to get another doctor.

I had non-hodgkins lymphoma in my colon and it spread to my liver and it was the agressive kind and now I’m in remission for three yrs. I also have an ovarian cyst which is the size of a golf ball or more from my x-ray about a year ago and I can feel it. My oncologist sent me to the obgyn but I’ve lost my insurance, so for almost a year now, I haven’t been seen. I’m scared but with no insurance unless you go to the hospital with screaming pain they won’t see you.
I’m worried its the non-hodgkins coming back b/c I’ve had other symptoms as well. But, the cyst is so large, it could make sense that it is causing the pain. But they are located in the same place so I dont know which one it is.

Yesterday I went to get my result for my sonogram and found out I had multi micro cyst on my ovaries so the doctor put me on birth control for three month and I am suppose to begin on a sunday and the brand name is sprintec, I wanted to know will this help the cyst dissolve and does it affect my possibilty of ever becoming pregnant which is my biggest concern, also is this a good birth control because I am very concern about the side effects it could cause.

There seems to be an increase of ovarian cysts in women in the last 20 years, which is about 10 years after recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST), recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH), or artificial growth hormone, a.k.a. Posilac was first introduced.

I’ve been around for quite a few years and rarely heard of women having ovarian cysts until the late ’90s. Now, it is rare to meet a woman under the age of 25 who doesn’t have some kind of reproductive issue.

I’m interested in hearing from women of all ages.

What kinds of reproductive issues have you had, if any? What age? Treatment? Does your diet consist of or has your diet consisted of regular beef or milk? Or do you only consume hormone free products?

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The cysts to which I am referring cause debilitating illness in the women who have them, so they would not have gone undetected even back in the 80’s. The illnesses range from excruciating cramps to peritonitis when the cysts rupture. These symptoms were not as common before the 80’s as they are now. It is not the advent of medical technology finding the conditions. There seems to be an increase of women with the symptoms.

The symptoms are usually manageable with hormone treatment, i.e. the pill. Hmmm … I didn’t know many 13 year olds on the pill when I was a kid. Now there are thousands of them that must take the pill because of debilitating illness associated with ovarian cysts.

I’ve had to get the depo shot because i won’t remember to take the pills and i have ovarian cysts. Now since i’ve been on the shot i’ve gained weight but only in my stomach area. Is that normal? Like just to gain weight in the stomach area?

I got my period for the first time kind-of late (13 yrs old) and it has NEVER been regular. I know it’s normal to be irregular for a while in the beginning, but i’m 20 now and I still hardly get it more than 3 times a year.

I know it sounds like I’m lucky, but it lasts longer than normal when I do get it and it’s unpredictable. I also worry about how this will affect my ability to have children in the future.

I’m a healthy weight, have a balanced diet, have been tested for hormone irregularities and I have no ovarian cysts. I tried the pill for a while but I gained about 20 pounds in four months, so I stopped it. Even on the pill I was still irregular. Any ideas?

My wife has a 3-4 cm Rt ovarian hemmorhagic cyst she currently has some Rt pain issues but was recently in the emergency room with elevated white count and in addition to the hemmorhagic cyst she had left abdominal pain

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Im a 23 yr old female with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and Irritable bowel syndrome i m on the yasmin pill and my diet and exersize is spot on. Any one know any reason why this cyst are accouring or have any tips how to get rid of them ( on my face ) its honestly driving me insane feeling these bumps under my skin and having to go to the doctor monthly a week after my cycle to get my breasts checked..

Does anyone have hypothyroid and ovarian cysts? Having both is frustrating because of the weight gain and the irregular periods…has anyone found a healthy balance for both of the side effects? Everyone says eating healthy and staying active with plently of water will make you feel and look good. They dont understand, our bodies dont work like that. Its frustrating, anyone have any tips?
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome does funky things to your insulin level….which in turn messes with your weight….a lose lose situation

How can you diagnose ovarian cancer???

I had blood workup done: my WBC was high, RBC , HGB, HCH were all low…my CA 125 was elevated…I had an ultrasound done transvaginal showing a complex (but I dont know what KIND it is) cyst on my ONLY remaing ovary 7cm x8cm…also had a cat scan done yesterday,

I have Endo Stage 4 & recently was told I had PCOS and this is when they found this cyst….

The last 2 mo ive been extremely bloated, diet and exercise are NOT helping, its all in lower pelvic region..

Im waiting to hear from the DR…but i am scared and nervous!!!!!!

What kind of ‘cyst’ would indicate cancer?! I have a family history of this and breast cancer and i am 28 yr old…
THANKS!