leg pain ? weird

[keps83]

Is leg pain often associated with ovarian cyst or cancer? It keeps being listed as a symptom of ovc but it does not say what type of leg pain. Along with lower abdominal pain i have been having a dull achey (achy) feeling in my thighs, kind of like a growing pain you get as a kid. is this the type of pain they are talking about or it is more sharp and severe?

[gah_70]

In my experience, the leg pain was a nerve type pain.  Anytime you have a mass that shouldn't be there, benign or malignant, it will sometimes press against a nerve and cause a shooting pain down your leg.  I have heard some describe it more like sciatica...because it presses against the sciatic nerve.  I felt mine the most in the lower left side of my bottom.  At times, it went completely numb.  

The best advice to you would be to go get checked out.  Better to find out it is nothing at all than to wait and it turn into something more serious.  

Good luck!

Gail

[loralai]

I expressed a similar pain recently that you are describing. I slept with heat pad and started some exercise and it feels better and I can say I haven't had any pain recently at all. I still have some weird down the leg shooting but not really pains...tingling more like. I just got a CA125 number of 9 so I felt better about it and figured it's probably sciatic but now I am a bit worried. Did you pain come and go or was it constant? I get a CT scan in July so that will tell me more I guess. My husband said it could be nerve damage from surgery?? Do you think I should be concerned? Lori

[gah_70]

The pain was sporatic at first, but it eventually turned into more of a constant thing.  I'd find my leg falling asleep when I would sit too long, too.  I'm not sure if this is related, but by the end of the day, my left ankle would also be swollen.  Since the surgery, that doesn't happen.  It's amazing what all these (*&^% masses can do to you!  

I'd say your pain very well could be nerve damage from surgery.  That happened after my surgery, too.  The left side of my bottom and my left thigh were tingly for the longest time...but it was a different kind of tingly than I had before surgery.  Before, it was a definite pins and needles feeling.  Post surgery, it was more of a constant cold feeling....like I'd been out in the snow too long or something.  It did eventually go away, though.  I had a large surgery (44 cm mass), so I just assumed that was the price I paid for having so much done.  It will be two years in August since my surgery, but I can't really pinpoint a time frame for how long it took for that sensation to go away. How long has it been since your surgery?  I don't think you should necessarily be worried since you say it has gotten better now that you are exercising.  Plus, that is a great CA125 number, especially post-chemo.  But the CT in July is a good thing, if for nothing more than to give you peace of mind.    

Gail