Thanks for your response:) I tried to post a reply last night, but my computer is misbehaving and nothing showed up, so I'm rewriting. The situation really is complex, an example of which would be that the doctor and the nurses I dealt with (I left him eventually) told me my immune system was and is top notch so it was unusual that I should get this disease. The other thing is my children and husband didn't have cancer, so no immune system depression for any of them, yet they experienced the symptoms in the same way I did. Really, it is so strange. I always said that if my children and husband hadn't had the exact same things going on, I would've/could've been diagnosed much sooner! Which is just hideous to contemplate, but inescapably true. I already knew the symptoms of ovarian cancer, just because I am a woman and keep up on these things, and this was definitely different...not only were the 70-ish symptoms really not in line, even though some of them could be construed as ovca symptoms, but because the kids/husband had the same complaints....a fact that I cannot stress enough. Which led me to consider that maybe parasites do/did cause this. Had I had any family history of any kind of cancer (nothing on either side of 2 very large families... Italian and Irish, so I mean large LOL), or had I had any risk factors (I had none), or had I been an older woman, I could probably let it go and would not be considering parasites as a causative factor. But, alas, it is all I am left with. I know, I know, I will probably never get an answer, and I hate that, but it doesn't stop me from thinking about it (I think too much!), and until I can reconcile it I will continue to seek answers. I feel that researchers should begin to at least consider infectious disease as a possible causative factor for this disease. I am doing very well, by the way, thanks so much, and again thanks for your reply. (I'm thinking of re-sending this post to the doctor's portion of the forum----not that it will help, but you never know). Best wishes to you, also.
I don't think parasites cause ovarian cancer. They don't know the cause though. They know things that increase your risk for getting ovca, but not anything that directly causes it. I think it sounds like a conincidence that your family had this infection just prior to dx. The fact that your immune system was already compromised by ovca likely led to a blurring of your symptoms from the two conditions. You probably were more in tune with the ovca symptoms from the acute nature of the parasite infection. That is just my opinion. I can see how it would make you wonder though. I hope you are doing better with your ovca...and those darn parasites stay away!!! It sounds horrible. Best wishes.