Hi,
scary posting here but my mind is in a spin and need somewhere to spill!
Think I ended up here by accident or sheer fluke. Three weeks ago I went to my GP with pain in my right back area. As I have a history of kidney stones she sent off a urine sample and referred me for an urgent CT scan. I had this on Tuesday. By Friday I had 4 missed calls from GP while I had been at work. I called the surgery but was told my GP wasn’t in and would call me back Wednesday so I didn’t think it was anything untoward or urgent. However, she called me back within 10 mins. The results of the CT scan had come through quickly. Kidney, ureters and bladder were all clear, no signs of stones and urine sample was clear. The concern was a 3cm mass had been detected on my right ovary. I am booked in Monday morning for ca125 blood test and she is referring me for urgent ultrasound. Now I’m worried!
Yes I’ve been scouring the internet for information. (But I’m also mindful of where I read information, I’m an ex-nurse, a biologist, and GCSE and A level science teacher!) I didn’t think I had any signs/symptoms to suggest problems with my ovaries, turns out maybe I have......All other symptoms rather vague and things I have just learned to live with and put everything down to age (50) and start of menopause. I have a little incontinence, I pee constantly but I’m a tea drinker and put it down to that, I have had extreme heavy periods for about a year and bleeding between periods, as a teacher it can be a struggle at times to get through an hours lesson without leaking. I am constantly tired but was also found to have very low ferritin levels (4 when the normal is 22!) and take iron tablets for it. Lots of lower back and hip pain but blood results in August showed high inflammatory markers suggesting arthritis so I take naproxen daily. My mum also had breast cancer.
I know my mind is just on over drive. I know I have very little evidence to suggest anything sinister, so far just CT results which require further investigations. I know I need to be patient and wait for these other tests and then results. A simple cyst would be great, a simple laparoscopic procedure to remove it would be a relief and then life and Christmas can all go ahead as planned. (Christmas is very important to me as my daughter died on Christmas night 2 years ago and we are determined to have a big family Christmas to celebrate this year rather than all the tears and heartache of last year remembering what happened before).
Thank you for reading, thank you for letting me post....nothing more than putting it on paper so to speak.
Di
