Ovarian Cyst Merry-Go-Round Nightmare

Ovarian Cyst Merry-Go-Round Nightmare
June 30, 2012

Registered: 12 years ago
Posts: 1,450

Hello all,

I have a medical issue going on. In this breeder crazy culture, I am not sure that most doctors are willing to really do what needs to be done for me. In 2006-2007, I began having a bad pain in my stomach. I was diagnosed with everything from gas to impacted stools by a bunch of moronic doctors. Finally, after ultrasounds, I was diagnosed with ovarian dermoid cysts on both ovaries. I have never had bad or heavy periods or any other "women's problems" so this diagnosis caught me off guard. Anyway, I was told that the pill does not help dermoid cysts so the only treatment was surgery. I did not want to be sliced open so I put it off and tried natural remedies such as castor oil packs. Of course, they didn't do shit and I ended up having a bilaterial laparoscopic ovarian cyst removal in early 2010.

After surgery, I asked the doctor about birth control pills to control cyst regrowth (even though they said they didn't help dermoid cysts, I didn't want to just not do *anything*). The doctors says it was better for me to just let the ovaries heal and do what they do naturally for awhile. So, no Pill.

In late 2010 I had moved and was seeing another primary care doctor. I told her about the cysts and she scheduled me for a transvaginal ultrasound just "in case". To my surprise, the bastards were back! They were not as large though and weren't hurting at all. If it weren't for the ultrasound, I would not have known that they were trying to come back. So, my PCP referred me to a new GYN.

The new GYN is a male/female doctor duo with a lot of physician assistants. I get a CA 125 test and it comes back negative (this is to test for tumor markers and make sure the stupid cyst really is just a cyst and not something malignant). The male GYN who I see that day recommends surgery after another ultrasound. The surgery was not bad and I don't mind getting cut again. But, if it is just going to come back again, what's the point? I agree to surgery and it is scheduled in early 2011.

About 3 weeks before the surgery, the female GYN from the same practice says she does not want to have me undergo another surgery. She says that if the cysts are not hurting, she doesn't want to put me through another surgery. She also says that everytime you go in there, you are messing with your fertility. smile rolling left right

eyes2 I don't give a shit about the fertility but I am relieved to not be cut again. She said also that ovaries produce other hormones to keep you healthy and it is just not about reproduction. She has more experience than the young male GYN so I defer to her and the surgery is cancelled. Yet, when I ask about options to shrink the cysts or make them not come back this time, they offer me no help. They say birth control pills don't help dermoids. If they can make 67 year old women shit out children, why can't they help me with my cysts? I'm sure there's got to be something out there....
But anyway, the GYN recommends periodic transvaginal ultrasounds to monitor things. I comply.

Ultrasound results: One month, the right side is larger. Six weeks later, the right side has shrunk, but the left side has gotten larger. They seem to flip flop which is weird.

A few weeks ago, I began actually hurting and having pain from these cysts. I don't know what to do. These GYNs don't seem to be offering me anything to make the cysts go away and stay away for good. They seem to be as stumped as I am. I am thinking of going back on the pill because I've got to do something and not let the cysts get to the point they were in in 2010. In 2010, I was vomitting and hurting so bad that I thought I was dying. I am no where *near* that now.

Here's another thing that ties into my childfreedom and it is relevant to this discussion. When I was a teen in the 2000s, I began taking the Pill. Even though I was not sexually active, I knew I didn't want to breed. Up in that time period, they were running all of these articles in magazines and in the papers encouraging women to breed early and breed often to lower their risk of ovarian and other cancers that plague women who breed late or not at all. I knew I didn't want brats so I did my research and decided the Pill may be a good job to shut the ovaries down for awhile and give me some protection against these problems. Actually, I thought Lupron might have been a good idea but of course the doctors were not going to do that on some teenage girl. As I said before, I had never had any problems with pain or heavy periods at all. Even though I was an intelligent kid to do this health research to try to protect myself, I fucked up in some ways because I didn't know any better. I'd do things like skip the placebos and just continuously take the pills sometimes to "mimic" pregnancy and offer me better protection against these cancers. I'd do this some times even when I switched pill brands because I didn't understand about the different types of progesterone and different strengths. To me, the Pill was the Pill. I think that what I did kind of messed up my hormones and overly stimulated my ovaries.

Here are my questions to you all:
1. Has anyone else out there had ovarian dermoid cysts? What did you do? Did the Pill help?
2. What would you do in my case?
3. Is the Pill in anyway dangerous? Did going on the Pill as a teen mess me up and cause these current problems?
4. Are there any other therapies out there to help with these cysts? Or are they not telling me because I am a young woman who they think might want to sluice loaves later?

Any help or advice would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.