Apologies if I am in the wrong area, please redirect me as necessary.
I'm one of the many that must post here describing themselves as worried sick, full of tears and looking for some sort of reassurance and I thank your kindness in advance!
I am 52 and to my knowledge never had Edometritis and always had regular periods that stopped around 2 years ago. I'm tall and have always been of a very slim (borderline skinny) build
I have had IBS all my life and did the low fodmap diet with registered dietician in February and lost nearly a stone. In the meantime I have had the odd stabbing pain and dull ache to the right of my belly button and just below. I finished the fodmap diet at the end of April and had more settled IBS, but I had lost weight (although I don't eat a lot of high fat foods and have never had large appitiete) Having the right side pain I went to the GP and my husband was also concerned about my weight loss. I have since increased my calories but progress is slow with putting any weight back on. (2lb!) I am also a TERRIBLE worrier and have awful anxiety which I'm contributes I'm sure to my weight loss.
So, today I had an internal ultrasound and by coincidence a blood test for my ovaries and whist I was in the surgery the GP happended to call as she had my scan results back from 8:30 this morning!!! (I know, how great is that!) I don't remember all the terminology but they want to refer me for a scan in the next 14 days (the speed of which scared me too) I have a 1.5cm cyst that (from what I remember) doesn't look like a normal fluid filled cyst and could be endometrioma or something else.
The GP was very good and took time try to reasure me, but a lot of the conversation and advice has gone from my mind. I am now away on holiday next Monday for 9 days which we have waited for since before Covid and quite frankly my head is in a dizzy spin and my husband is suggesting we cancel the holiday.
Having looked on the NHS website, I don't have a swollen tummy (I do get the odd bloatedness if I eat something I know I will react to) I have a relatively good appitiete and get hungry often, I sometimes pee more than usual and sometimes twice a night but could go most of the day without a wee (like I did this week at work) no indigestion, consitpation or diarrhoea, I don't feel tired all the time, I'm not bleeding. I do have a bad back but I did last September when I pulled my back after a very long bike ride and litterally couldn't move.
Any reasurance or messages very welcome.
Hi Sprinkles86 and a very warm welcome to the online community which I hope you'll find is both an informative and supportive place to be.
It's natural to be worried when you have unexplained symptoms.
As the online community is divided up into different support groups I'm going to recommend that you join the ovarian cancer group, not because this is what I think you have but because you'll then connect directly with others who you can ask questions of, share experiences and get support.
To join just click on the link I've created and then join and start a new post in the same way as you did here. You can also join in with existing conversations by clicking on 'reply'. To save you typing this all out again just copy and paste it into a new post once you've joined the group.
If you have any difficulty navigating the community just drop me a reply and I'll be pleased to help
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