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Should I get a second opinion?
I've been experience sharp twinges of pain and occasional throbbing on both sides of my pelvic area near hips. Sometimes mild enough to relieve with heat, sometimes too severe to even walk. Every month right before my period, I have nausea and vomitting and severe mid back and abdominal pain, but it goes away when my period starts. Also, my period has not come in over 2 months which is very weird for me; I'm normally like clockwork. Finally went to ob/gyn and she ordered an ultrasound. Came back with one 2.8 cm simple cyst on my left ovary, a tiny paraovarian cyst, and a "1.8 cm avascular complex right ovarian nodule." Also says "may represent corpus luteum." Avascular is great, and size isn't too shabby. NP tells me everything is fine and normal, and not to worry. And I would agree except the language the radiologist used seems weird to me and I've had 3 different providers including my primary Doctor look at the report and everyone agrees it's fine. Yet no one can explain to me why the radiologist would describe it that way. If it was a normal functioning cyst, wouldn't he have just said that? He gave no other explanation and didn't make any recommendations for follow up. I emailed my doctors office and asked for a follow up ultrasound in a month but I'm waiting to hear back. Should I go to another doctor for another opinion or push for a CT scan so they can see it better? Has anyone else here been diagnosed with an ovarian nodule?
I'd ask for an MRI of the abdomen and see what is up with the cyst. There are some solid kinds of cysts, perhaps you would like to have it out because it is hurting you, and your doctors don't seem too impressed with that fact. I'd ask for a new doctor along with the MRI, myself.
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Most ovarian cysts go away on their own and since yours are small, a follow-up ultrasound would be a reasonable plan. CT scans emit a bit of radiation so you don't want to have those unnecessarily.
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