ovarian Cyst

[piper333]

I will make this short as can be...2004 i had an hysterectomy just ovaries and cervix left. 2006 i had another surgery for a hemor. cyst on my right side, always where the pain occured for years. After this surgery i woke one morning to pain that was unbearable on the left side of my lower stomache that raidated to the belly button (kinda behind it) lots of pressure on that side and all the way up to my rib cage. i could barely move, and to pee ...it was almost like it was just filling up. I felt like something was going to explode. I made it thru that day. the next month it happened again, and this time the pain comes on real fast. I was in and out of passing out from pain (mind you i am a strong person when it comes to pain) I go to the hospital cause i can not take the pain anymore...on a scale of 10 it was a 20. The Doctor came and and pushed on my belly button and i passed out from unbearable pain. the pain got worse, and the pain meds did not even touch the pain and he gave me the strongest Dilaudid, and morphine. Symptoms, starts low..like where my ovary is..then raidates to my left side (flank area) i can hear gas bubbles, but no gass. To pass urine does not hurt but there is pressure (no infections). the pain is imense. it started after my surgery to remove my right ovary, always had pain there but never in my left one. ive now gone to every doctor on the planet and no one has answers, but it might be a cysts again. So here i am today, and the pain is back and now the pain is lasting more hours. Just unbearable, and i feel like my stomache has imense pressure on the left side, and my c-section incision on that side is very hard and painful, but the pain behind my belly button is out of this world, sharp intense pain that does not go away with anything i do. I try to pee cause i feel so much pressure thinking it will help, but it almost like i have to force urine out ( no infections at all ) my stomache is the size of a pregnant lady and i can not have babies. Please anyone im at my end, i have no idea where to go from here.

[MarieMichele]

Even small ones have been big pains for some women.

It stinks that you've seen so many doctors and none of them have done much good for you.  My own gyn dropped the OB part of her practice to focus on gyn issues outside of pregnancy.  It made her very proactive regarding my own cyst problem (but mine was big and unmistakable, too).

Are there any gyn's in your area that do not practice OB?  Sometimes they are better at this sort of thing.  Maybe by calling a hospital that you like you can get a list of gyn's that operate in that hospital.  Sometimes you can find lists like that right on the internet site for a hospital.  I wish I had a better answer but what you need is a doctor that can actually find and treat the underlying cause of the pain.

[piper333]

I have seen 3 OB's...they have done ultra sounds..My right ovary had to rupture before a decent Dr. paid any attention, that landed me in the hospital with surgery. I ve had ultra sound in many ways all ways that are possible..MRI with Contrast CT scans...the hopeless answer is "CYST" that word haunts me. No kidney stones ( had them this is a more intense pain than kidney stones) gall bladder is already gone, appendix..nope thats the right side. All i can say is the pull out this little white pad and have given me everything under the sun...So it doesnt matter what they give me for meds, it does not ease the pain, so why take them...right? Adhesions, and endo was another thought since i already had a surgery to clean up scar tissue from 3 c-sections...How big does a cyst have to be to create pain like this? and for a Doctor to do something??

[MarieMichele]

What types of doctors have you seen?  Were any gynecologists and did any take ultrasound, especially transvaginal ultrasound?  If there are cysts, however small or large, they should be visible as well as the ovaries.  It sounds like pressure pain from wherever a cyst has decided to plant itself.  Pressure on bowels, bladder and urinary tract, referred pain to other areas, bloating, are all possible cyst symptoms.  Maybe an ovary got relocated (I always wondered what kept them in place once a hysterectomy occurs and not being a doctor I don't have all the answers on how they can take some parts and leave others behind without it causing remaining parts to shift).  Maybe scar tissue/adhesions from the hysterectomy are involved as well?  Have all other things been ruled out (kidney stones, gall bladder, appendix)?  

Since you already had a history of gyn problems, that's probably the place to start by getting a really good gynecologist if you don't already have one.  I hope you get a good solution soon.  Nobody should have to live with that kind of pain.