Help please.

[Sunshine7177]

Hi. I'm 47 years old and told after having a transvaginal ultrasound that I have a 1cm nodule on the left side and a 2cm complex cyst on the right side. I'm in a lot of lower abdomen pain. I had a pap but haven't got the results yet. In really worried about ovarian cancer. I don't know of any I my family but they seem small to cause this type of pain. Has anyone else experienced this and came to the other side?

[Sunshine7177]

Thank you for your response. I've been really freaking out about this. I do have some pain meds  and am scheduled to get my pap results next Friday. I really appreciate you comment. It helps to have someone to talk to who has been through this.

[old_before_my_time]

Welcome Sunshine. Take a deep breath! Some women do have quite a bit of pain with small cysts. I am not sure why some do and others do not. To some degree, it can be explained by our different thresholds for pain but there is more to it. I had no pain at all until my (complex) cyst was 9cm.

As far as ovarian cancer, most cysts are benign (non-cancerous) especially in women without a family history / predisposition for ovarian cancer.

Since your cysts are still small and cysts tend to resolve on their own in 2 to 3 cycles, is your doctor just monitoring them for now? Hopefully, if this is the plan, you can keep the pain to a tolerable level with pain meds.

Keep us posted on how you are doing. Hope it is all soon behind you.