Went to the emergency room with excruciating pain

The pain I've had has generally been a dull ache around ovulation. The worst pain when I was admitted to hospital was a mix of sharp, cramping, dull aches almost like period pain but lower left pelvis (where the cyst is), but I think i also had a kidney stone which caused the most pain (I had blood in my urine and the pain went the next day) but my pain lasted from 6 am till around 9 am the next day, so a very long time really but again could have been the kidney stones. I haven't had my surgery yet and I don't really get pain as such just the occassional uncomfortable weird feeling and pressure/tugging, especially after a long day at work. By the way my cyst is a 10cm dermoid. Hope this helps. 

Hi landa I had a 7.5cm functional cyst on my ovary for the last 10 months. It started with irregular periods. They were coming more frequently. I had a scan at the end of October for something else and they found a large gallstone. I started getting pains under my ribs were my gallbladder was and in my back. Surgeon said once I started getting pain it was best to take the gallbladder out. Unfortunately they neglected to tell me about the cyst until after my gallbladder removal. At that stage it was smaller but 8 weeks after my operation I started vomiting and had horrendous nausea all the time. My periods were coming every 20 days. I also had diarrhea. I was in and out of hospital and they put everything down to side effects of the gallbladder removal. They then told me the cyst was 7.5cm and I saw a gynaecologist who said it was big and was going to operate until he spoke to my surgeon and as I'd had bowel surgery 20 years ago they said I was too high risk of ruoture. I asked if my symptoms could be from the cyst bad they didn't answer me. This continued until July nausea vomiting (like pregnancy symptoms) indigestion headaches breast tenderness and irregular periods. I got horrendous stabbing pains in the ovary in July that followed with awful labour like pains on and off for a few weeks. Amazingly the nausea and vomiting stopped and breast tenderness.I had a scan and they said the cyst has partially ruptured and was now 2.5 cm. Got my period few weeks later and on the last day of my period the stabbing pains and labour type pains started in my ovary again and the nausea and dry wretching for about a week. That was 3 weeks ago. The nausea is a lot better and no vomiting and the headaches are a lot better but am still getting period pains coming and going. I am waiting until my next period before I have another scan. My doctor is hopeful that the cyst may have finally fully ruptured but has advised me they it could take another cycle or two for everything to sort itself out. I now believe my gallbladder didn't need to be removed but it was the cyst causing all the problems. I have spoken to so many people that had all these symptoms too and were told it was IBS or pms and it turned out to be ovarian cysts. Some people get very few symptoms with cysts and some get a lot of symptoms. Also high estrogen is the main cause of cysts so detoxing your liver may help you. I took milk thistle for 8 weeks and am convinced it helped get rid of the cyst. I have never had a cyst before (that I know of) and hope to god I never have one again as it is a horrendous experience. I hope you get sorted soon. Take care xx