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2nd US has me more scared then ever

I had my 2nd US today, 5 weeks after being told I have a 4cm X 4cm solid complex cyst in my right ovary.  Im scheduled for surgery this Friday.  I asked my gyn/onc if we could do another US to make sure it hadnt shrunk or gone away because the pain is gone now.  So today I go to the hospital where my gyn/onc is and I have an intern start the exam both on my stomach and tv.  She starts by asking if I only have one ovary.  I say no but I have no uterus.  She then cant find my right ovary.  She says its either side by side with the left or she just cant find it.  She gets the real tech.  Real tech will not let me watch the screen and again asks me 5 minutes into it if I only have 1 ovary.  Then asks me where i had my 1st US and what they found.  I tell her and both of them are still standing there watching the screen like they have never seen anything like that in their lives.  Real tech points out "vessels", clicks, then points and says click here.  They both are not saying anything loud enough for me to even hear.  I ask real tech if she can at least tell me how big my RIGHT ovary is.  She hesitated and then said 3x2x1.  I asked her if she could tell me if the cyst was gone and she said "no, that would be giving results" They still have stone cold looks on their faces.  Then real tech tells me she is going to show pics to Radiologist to make sure the came out okay.  10 minutes later Radiologist comes in out of breathe!  He asks where I had my 1st US and I tell him.  He says okay, I just want to look at things in "real time".  Stands there for 10 minutes while US tech points at stuff and then tells me that I will hear from my Dr.  US tech then tells me it would have been helpful to have the original US to go by.  At that point Im ready to punch someone in the face because no one would tell me what the F is going on!  Im assuming if it was good news I would have been told something from the Radiologist.  The fact that they couldnt find my right ovary at first was quite alarming since it was 3 times the size of my left one 5 weeks ago.  Would she have lied to me about the size?  Because if that is the size, then that means it shrunk but the 3 of them all looked like they were about to give me a death sentence.  Im so scared and I cant imagine what the heck is so bad that made them look like that when 5 weeks ago they clearly saw a cyst in my ovary.  Please give me some information here:(
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Yep, radiologist ALL read them different.

I know in truth I had 3 scans read as NORMAL, only to find out later,  ABNORMAL.

I did have to have surgery to correct the issues, but it does amaze me in how different radiologist see things. One was in fact the cyst on my ovary, radiologist said all normal only 2 months later to have my gyno look at it & say NO here is the cyst (it had grown). Same with the radiologist & orthopedic surgeon. He found the problem within seconds and even pointed it out to me. And finally the 3 rd was of my neck radiologist said good, when Endo said, "I can't believe he did not see the infected salivary gland & enlarged lymp nodes".  

So I would not read much into the radiologist, get the answers from your doctor if you can.
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hi i was just wondering what did your doctor said? hopefully everything is ok... will pray for all of us
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Don't have any information to give you, but can tell you that each and every ultrasound that I've had has been drastically different from each previous ultrasound and each radiologist and each doctor has had a different opinion about what they're seeing.  I even asked that they have all my scans re-read, and they still couldn't reconcile the differences between scans or their opinions.  Even scans just 1 day apart have been drastically different.  So, basically, in my experience, each day and each scan brings a new view, a new measurement, and a new opinion about what they're seeing/not seeing.  I was freaked out initially, but now I just expect weirdness.  I've already experienced a massive rupture and there was nothing they could do about it, and even though my CA-125 is over normal I'm still not really concerned about it as the test was taken during rupture and inflammation can elevate that number.  The odds of any of these cysts being cancerous is so low, I've just given up being worried about it anymore.  I survived a rupture that took 3 weeks for the free-fluid in my abdominal cavity to reabsorb and was seriously painful -- but now I know what to expect and know that I'll get through it if it happens again.  The only real risk, as I've had it explained to me, is of repeated ruptures.  I would rather not have surgery and if there's any way this might resolve without intervention then I'm willing to risk having another rupture.  I've done it all before and have been through childbirth twice -- I'm just not afraid of pain anymore, I guess??  But everybody is different and has to deal with their own fears and listen to their own team of "experts;" but remember that YOU are your OWN best expert!
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