Follow up on 22cm surgery!

[bloated94]

Just wanted to thank all of you wonderful women who were there to answer my questions and just pass on kind words before my surgery. To recap...I was told about a month about a month ago that I had a 20cm cyst on my left ovary. It had grown to 22cm by the time I had an CT. I also had elevated results from my OVA 1 test. My surgery was on July 21st. Talk about being crazy nervous! I did hope to keep my right ovary but was not able to. When my oncologist/gyno got in there (incision goes from pubic area to bellybutton) he discovered that the football size cyst had ruptured. There was still the lower part intact that had more solid matter in it. The frozen section came back as borderline so he needed to do a full hysterectomy. Both ovaries and all. I am in my mid 40's with 2 kids so luckily do not need to worry about that. I have my follow up visit later next week and hope they have the full pathology report by then. Slowly recovering from the surgery. Lots of sleep really does help. Have lost about 25 pounds! Thankful to have it done but still very worried about the borderline cells that were/are floating around the rest of me. Can this become something else in the future? Strange but I did not have any real pain that you would think would come with a rupture. Thank you again for all your well wishes and great advice! So lucky to have found this forum!

[dian07]

Thanks for taking the time to return and let us know what is going on.  So sorry the stupid thing ruptured.......mine did too, although mine was not borderline.
That was six years ago......I was IC and did the chemo.  It wasn't fun but I'll not complain one little bit.
Hang in there and please do keep us up to date.
Peace.
dian

[ireneo]

Thank you so much for updating us. I'm sorry the thing ruptured. That is messy. Borderline is such a gray area. Just not sure what to expect. Are they going to monitor you for a few years to see what happens? Do you have to follow up with any chemo treatments? Perhaps you won't know till you get the full pathology report in. I wonder if they flushed the abdomen. I think they do that in some cases. Anyway, do rest up. It will take longer for the inside to heal than the outside so don't rush into heavy activity. Take care and if you can, let us know what else they say.