19 years old, 7cm cyst.

[lilopelekai]

This is my first time posting anything, but i would love some feedback from real people. since around april of this year, I noticed that my weight has been slowly but surly climbing. i cant fit any of my clothes, and my bra sizes have also gone up. I haven't had any changes in lifestyle, no increase of stress or anything. just keep gaining weight. I've always had bad cramps during my cycle, but i didn't think twice that there could be another cause behind it. August of this year my cycle was two weeks late, very very unusual because I'm very regular. Then my next cycle should have come october 23, and didn't come until November 14th. The day of November 14, i was having very bad pelvic pain so i left work early and went to the ER. They did a pelvic ultrasound and found that there was a baseball sized cyst on my right ovary. the doctors in the ER told me to take ibuprofen and it should go away on its own, but i didn't think so. I have a follow up appointment today, i'm hoping they will just remove it. I also hope that removing it will help the weight come off, because i've just been swelling more and more. No matter what j do, I can't get the weight to come off. Anyone else dealt with this before?

[old_before_my_time]

I am sorry the pain is still so bad. Yes, having an ovarian cyst can affect your menstrual cycle. But non-gynecologic conditions can too. If you have always been regular until you developed this cyst, then it is likely the cyst causing your cycle changes.

[lilopelekai]

Just an update, like I mentioned in my first post, my period was 3 weeks late the day I went to the ER. That was also the day my period started. I guess my normal cramps were hiding the severity of the cyst pain, because when my cycle ended, the pain increased a lot. The doctor I went to see scheduled my appointment for 12-12-14, but I don't really think I will be able to last that long with this thing inside me. One of my doctors prescribed me Norcos, but the medicine isn't helping my pain at all. Is it normal for a cyst to effect your menstrual cycle? I feel like that's a serious symptom.

[old_before_my_time]

I have read that about 7cm is the cut-off for monitoring versus surgical removal. The type of cyst also plays into the treatment plan. Yet you don't want to have surgery if it isn't necessary. What did your doctor say today?

[ticked]

Did they say what type of cyst it was? Endometrioma (blood filled), Dermoid? If it isn't one of those cysts taking the birth control pill will help it shrink but if it is one of those then the pill will not do that. I don't know why your doctor is saying take Ibuprofen and it will go away if its the size of a baseball usually they operate on that size.

[AnnieBrooke]

If your appointment today is with your regular ob-gyn, that is a lot better than the ER.  He or she should give you some good advice.