hysterectomy for fibroids, CA 125 is 60

[nanik]

worried about upcoming hysterectomy but want to have it due to the pain in lower right, backpain, sometimes pain up high near ribs, hip pain both sides etc etc etc. Feel like i/m 80 years old, only 51. CA 125 is 60 and I have a fibroid or two. Also have TWO uteruses and two cervices so it's going to be tricky surgery.....i have a bad feeling about the CA 125 even though I know better.

Anyone out there built like me and have same sypmtoms

[nanik]

oh forgot to tell you I've been bleeding for years...3 months at a time, 6 weeks at a time etc etc...had several d7cs, removed polyps, nothing worked. Have constant deep cramping also....waiting for endo biopsy results and hysterectomy date.

[MickeyVicki]

Not just like you, but I do know a woman who had one cervix and then her  uterus was divided by a septum (which essentially meant that she had two uteruses, I guess.)  Anyway, she struggled through her teens and into her twenties with heavy, long periods, and terrible cramping.  A surgery to correct the 'deformity' (to remove the septum)  only caused the bleeding and cramping to be worse, and she had a hysterectomy before the age of 30.

Considering your situation, what will all the, ah, 'extra storage space', and the endometriosis, etc., I would be more surprised if your CA-125 was normal than for it to be mildly elevated!