Ovarian Cancer

[911operator]

I'm new here but have read many of the posts. God bless you all. About a month ago, I started having a terrible problem with my urine output! It was horrible.. I couldn't get to the bathroom in time, even though at home it's only 8ft from my bed. But many a night, I would wet the bed and the carpet trying to get there. Now I wear the nighttime pads just in case and a extra pad on the mattress. But it was even worse for work, because I have to have someone standby the phones for me to leave. And it wasn't like I had been drinking gallons of water, but the flow of urine seemed to feel that way. Almost every hour I had to leave my station to go and then the pit stops on the way home from work. I was so miserable. The doc said I had a kidney infection, when I told him that I had terrible back pain to go with all this. Ok, so what do I know? Just give me drugs. Nothing seemed to help, especially the antibiotics because there was no infection. Then the side pain started really bad, to the point that I double over with the pain. It hurts bad on the left side and I can feel a hardness that doesn't move. I have that severe fatigue feeling, I just want to sleep 24/7 which is not like me. I have a life outside of my job, but I have no ambition to do anything. I just need someone to come clean my house, cuz I don't care. I don't have the energy. It takes all that I have to go to work, to go to the market. Some days I don't want to eat, or cook, and others I want to eat more. When I went back to the doc and told about how I was feeling, he sent me to the obgyn for my Pap and exam. The doctor was rude. When he did the pelvic with his tool, he pinched me skin so bad that I had terrible pain. Then when he pushed on my abdomen, he says to me "well, you're not complaining about pain so you must not have any" I told him that I was still reeling from the pain he caused on the inside of my body and wouldn't be able to notice pain anywhere on my body for awhile.. jerk. So he puts in a referral for the US. About a week later I go for the pelvic and vaginal US. The tech hurt me while doing the vaginal probe, and that has been a week ago now. I've been having severe pain there, like cramps. They sent the results the same day to the doc's office and the doc's office said that they never got them. So I called and had them refax the results. NOW, I have to wait to get the referral for the follow up appt to get my results. How insane is that???

I had been thru that pain once before, back in '70 when I had an ovarian cyst on my right side. I was only 15. My periods were all messed up... some months I wouldn't have one, then others I would have several of them. They did an exploratory then and took out the appendix at the same time. I don't know how big the benign cyst was back then, but I got out of Phy. Ed for several months. Now this seems to be happening on the other side, but worse.

Will I be able to go back to work after the surgery? Will I be able to work during chemo? I have the symptoms. My Mom passed this past year from CHF, but they found a spot on her breast and several months before she passed, she had a huge growth from the vaginal area. It was so bad, she couldn't have the catheter anymore. Her brother had lung cancer and prostate cancer Her mom had lung cancer, but passed at the age of 92. I hope it's not cancer, but if it is I will deal with it. I know I can after seeing my Mom go thru so much in her life. I'm not scared, just concerned because I have no one to help me out at home.

[911operator]

I saw my personal doctor yesterday. I had them send (I thought) the results of my tests. They did send him the US results which showed a 6.5 cm growth on my left ovary and a fibroid in my uterus that was 2.5 cm. He still doesn't have the Pap results from that other doctor, and my doc said that he would call me if it was bad news. I'm still cramping from the vaginal US I had about two weeks ago. He is ordering some other tests and will refer me to another GYN. I told him that it didn't matter if it was malignant or benign, they would have to come out. Cuz I remember all the pain I went thru last time and I was only 14-15 yrs old.

I did have to laugh at the doctor's office in regards to the scale. The nurse had me get on as usual and it said that I had lost 40 lbs. I thought "geez, I didn't even know". I asked her if the scale was right and she looked at me like I had lost my mind. So she asked me to back up to it and then step on... so if my butt faces the dial, I will weigh less ?? LOL. Nope, said the same. So when the doctor came in, I told him that his scale says I lost weight. He had me use another scale... dang, showed my true weight. But it was funny.