Update on cyst

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Hello Wholewoman Friends,

Sorry it has taken me so long to update you on my condition. I started feeling better the day after I posted and I got my ultrasound results late last week. Apparently I have 2 cysts; one on each ovary. The one on my right is a small functional cyst which is fine, and the one on my left was a complex cyst or hemmorraghic cyst with blood collection in it - still small in size according to the ultrasound. They also found some fluid in my pelvis which is likely the contents of the ruptured/leaking cyst. I talked to the ER doc (who called me at home on a Friday night) and my family doc's receptionist who took the results to another doctor in the building, and both seemed to think it would resolve on it's own, but the cysts would need monitoring. The pressure has definitely diminished substantially, but I still get the odd left sided pain, and sometimes bladder pressure, but nothing like it was.........I'll be booking an appointment with my family doctor in early February - he's great and usually does what I ask of him! Hopefully these cyst won't be a long standing problem!

Thank you all for your support and advice!
Janice

Hi Janice

Perhaps rupturing was not all bad. However, from my research it seems that the fluid that comes out of dermoid cysts is normally pretty icky stuff, not just watery fluid. Is a haemmoragic cyst the same as a dermoid cyst? Here's hoping it will settle down by itself. I can remember what it felt like with that pressure when I was at the beginning of my second pregnancy. They eventually drained over 5 litres of fluid off my abdominal cavity, but my abdomen didn't go back to normal for another 5 weeks, by which time I looked normal for the 10 weeks gestation that I was. But my pelvic floor was so stretched by then that it did not recover during the whole pregnancy and took a lot of waking up in the postpartum period.

Here's hoping that glitch is over now and the cysts resolve.

I would expect that your POPs may be troublesome for a time, while your abdominal cavity settles down, but I am sure they will improve again. If only it would hurry, eh?.

Louise

So happy to hear things are improving, Janice. It is amazing what the body will resolve if we'll just support it in the process. Good work! :)