Since my freshmen year of high school, which was six years ago, I've had all the symptoms of ovarian cysts, they use to come about every other period, but now they're every time and some times days before. I just thought they were normal period cramps so I didn't think anything of it. But eariler this year, my doctor found out that I did have ovarian cysts. She told me they weren't cancerous, but they aren't going to go away on their own. She said the best thing for me to do was to have the surgery to remove them. I told her I wasn't going to have surgery, the pain was bareable. She was going to put me on birthcontrol, but I said 'no' to that too. Too mainy side affects for my taste. Then she told me it was possible for them to burst and that it was going to be painful. Yet again, I figured I could deal with the pain. That was the end of that convertation. Now, several months later, the pain is only getting worse to the point where I have a hard time doing anything. Today, the pain was so bad, I stayed in the shower for almost 45 minutes. It's the only place the pain doesn't feel as bad and because of that, I missed my first class. Obviusly, I'm starting to rethink my options. The problem is, I know that I want to get rid of my ovarian cysts, but I can't. You see, in my family, we don't talk about private things like periods, breasts, and the like. I don't know how to tell my mom that this is what I want, plus, and I feel silly about this, but talking about such things still embaraces me. It took me a whole week to get the courage to tell her I wanted a bra. Also, since my parents are divorced and I'm still on my dad's health insurance, my mom has to tell him about everything medical I do. I don't know if I'm being childish or not, but for some reason, I don't want my mom telling him something like that.
I have no one to talk to this about, so I'm going to try here since we're all in the same boat. Please, I'll take any advice I can get.