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navel bleed
it hurt why is my old scar from laparoscially surgery under navel started to bleed and burn?
I believe you bennefit from your ovaries until you are 70 or so, according to something I read somewhere. After menopause, it still produces hormones to keep your bones strong and prevent strokes along with keeping your mental and sexual health strong. Surgical menopause is worse to go through than natural menopause by the way, so you would need hormone replacement if you loose them both, and just like p pills, they increase the risk of stroke (especially if you have a history or family history of it), breast cancer, etc, and you would need to try to balance the dose yourself if the dose or combination doesnt work for you. I would reckomend you read up on hormone replacement and chat your doctor about it.
I have a large cystadenoma cyst myself (I am 23 and the cyst is benign).
How do they know your cyst is malignant? From blood tests (ca 125 etc) or from a biopsy? If it is definately ovarian cancer, I dont think it would be wise to keep the "healthy" ovary, but unless they got a biopsy, your raised ca 125 (if that is the case) could be from something else.
I would maybe let them take the ovary with the cyst on and biopsy of the other one if they arent sure, if it turns out to be cancer you would need a second operation though. Oddly I have read that they prefer laparotomy over laparoscopy when dealing with cancer, so your case sounds a bit odd to me.
Get a second opinion! I know it is very short notice for both you and the doctors, so bring all your scans and blood results with you.
Good luck
I have a large cystadenoma cyst myself (I am 23 and the cyst is benign).
How do they know your cyst is malignant? From blood tests (ca 125 etc) or from a biopsy? If it is definately ovarian cancer, I dont think it would be wise to keep the "healthy" ovary, but unless they got a biopsy, your raised ca 125 (if that is the case) could be from something else.
I would maybe let them take the ovary with the cyst on and biopsy of the other one if they arent sure, if it turns out to be cancer you would need a second operation though. Oddly I have read that they prefer laparotomy over laparoscopy when dealing with cancer, so your case sounds a bit odd to me.
Get a second opinion! I know it is very short notice for both you and the doctors, so bring all your scans and blood results with you.
Good luck
I am 52 years old and have no history of ovarian cancer in my family. My right ovary has a 6.4 cm fluid filled cyst on it and it has grown to this size from 5.2 a year ago and 4 ultrasounds later. I am scheduled for both ovaries to be removed laparoscopically Nov 2nd. I don't want to lose my ovaries because, evan at 52, I believe I am still benifitting from them? Has anyone out there had a malignant cystadenoma that the doctors originally thought would only have a 5% chance of being malignant?
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