Our daughter, almost 24, has had some bleeding on and off for over a month. She takes Seasonique (3 month birth control) to control the symptoms of her endometriosis (diagnosed by laproscopy 4 years ago). She has taken it for almost 3 years and has been very pleased with the reduction in the amount of pain from the endometriosis.

Suddenly in January, pain on her left side increased greatly and the on and off bleeding began. She had an appointment with her OB/GYN who said it may have been due to the endometriosis. She managed to deal with the pain up until last week when, during the night, she has some take-your-breath-away pain on her left side which went on for a couple hours. 2 days later, she felt a "pop" on her left side and had a gush of heavy bleeding for 2 hours. The pain increased throughout the day until she eventually went to the emergency room as it was after hours at her OB/GYN and they couldn’t do anything to immediately see her. They weren’t able to do to an ultrasound at the ER (small town hospital) but scheduled one for 2 days later. The dr. who did an internal exam said the left side felt "full".

On Tuesday she had the ultrasound and everything in her ovaries and uterus looked normal. She saw her OB/GYN again today and she says it could have been a cyst that ruptured, or it could be a flare-up of endometriosis. The pain is sometimes sharp, and the rest of the time she says it feels like there is a curling iron burning inside, on the left side. Her dr. would like to give her a Lupron shot, if it is endometriosis, to throw her into menopause. This seems like an unwise thing to do if it was a ruptured cyst since Lupron won’t help with that and it’s not even clear if it really helps reduced endometriosis pain.

If you have had an ovarian cyst rupture, what were the symptoms before, during and after? How bad was the pain and how long did the pain last afterwards? If you have endometriosis, have you tried Lupron? Did it help?

I found out I have an ovarian cyst about 6 weeks ago. I had another ultrasound last week to see if it went away on its own and it hadn’t. Well I am supposed to go to the doctor tomorrow to find out what I can do to fix it.I’ve been having horrible pain at night, is there anyway to make the pain go away without medicine? (they gave me pain pills but I don’t like taking stuff like that) Also this all started when I went to the ER (severe pains and extremely excessive bleeding) while I was there the dr said something about being anemic but not bad enough to need a transfusion. Since it’s been about 7 more weeks with heavy bleeding do you think a transfusion could be needed? .. I wonder how I can bleed so much.. like how does my uterus produce that much blood so fast (like enough for a normal period within a day) Do you think I have something else wrong besides the cyst? Final issue- I am only 19 and I am hoping to be able to have children.. do you think I will have problems? I know I should ask a doctor but I want to know from people who have been through it and see what happened to them. Thanks in advance.
Please read the question before you answer it… I know I should ask my docotr BUT I want to know people’s expierences ..

My daughter who is 16 was dx with a ovarian cyst a pretty big one, well we did the birth control thing, she has not yet had a full cycle of the pill and has already had 2 periods one 10 days and the other 5 days and some increased pain now on both sides, I have asked the doctor if we could come in early to make sure everything is ok but she said take the full cycle of birth control first. My question is….. is the heavy bleeding normal and is the increased pain normal, the cyst is on the left side could she now have one on the right side also. Thanks alot for your answers.