Burst Ovarian Cyst

Hi Theresa!

All the best,

Vicky xx

Thanks Vicky hope all goes well for you to.

Take care x x

Hi I would definitely ask for a second opinion at least if nothing is wrong a I pray it is not then you will have peace at mind.

Hi I would definitely ask for a second opinion at least if nothing is wrong a I pray it is not then you will have peace at mind.

Hi, My daughter woke up this morning with excruciating pain in the lower right side of her abdomen

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I took her to Cheltenham hospital. The doctor thought it might be appendicitis but said it might be burst

cyst on her ovary as the pain came on so suddenly.

She had a scan at 2pm this afternoon and was admitted to a ward. She was only allowed water to drink

in case an op was needed and had a drip put up.

It was 10pm before a doctor confirmed that the scan definitely showed a ruptured cyst. She is being kept in hospital tonight for observation but hopefully won't need surgery tomorrow as the pain is subsiding

naturally.

Top marks to Cheltenham hospital .......................after reading some of your comments, I think she's had brilliant care, even if it was 8 hours after her scan before she was told the results. At least it was done

and confirmed in the same day.

From reading your comments, it is often similar to appendicitis and you definitely need a scan to confirm.

Hiya all. One year on and the scar has almost disappeared feeling great. So glad your daughter was taken care of and everything is fine. There are good doctors and nurses out there thank god but in my experience not enough and obvious flaws in the system. Lucky your daughter needed a scan on a weekday because the scanner in my local hospital is closed on weekends and after 5pm. Every Monday there is a backlog of patients waiting from the weekend and my twisted ovary wasn't seen as urgent. Luckily my mother was there because I was too weak to question anything.

Hi Jade, Thanks for your reply - I'm very pleased that your scar line is so good and disappearing and that you feel good now.

I hope the treatments are improving and care is getting better - you had an awful time.

Fortunately, my daughter is better now - she is waiting for a gynae appointment but the cyst seems to have burst and resolved spontaneously. She has her graduation ceremony on Thursday so I'm glad she'll be well for it!!

All the best,

Wendy x

Hi wendy170! I'm pleased to hear your daughter got her scan at Cheltenham General almost immediately as I did not! And as CGH is my local hospital, just goes to show you how one person at the same hospital can be treated entirely differently to the next!! However, I have a cousin who is a nurse, my brother is a trainee paramedic and my father is an ex-paramedic and paramedic training officer so I do know there are absolute angels out there that work for our NHS service, and I have experienced it several times over the last few months as my grandfather has breast and stomach cancer and my father is awaiting a diagnosis for lung cancer. Both have been treated perfectly and have had full advice and support from the NHS. And I have seen more hospitals over the last decade or so with my fathers health, and one particularly eye opening experience of Intensive Care at 17 after he had a motorcycle accident, that I have faith that out there somewhere are people who genuinely care and want to help. My advice to anyone is to get a 2nd/3rd/4th opinion if you genuinely think the diagnosis is wrong.

Thankfully, I am all clear. I had a flare up of pain and abdominal swelling a few months back though and went straight to my GP, who did a pregnancy test (negative), and then put in a request for an ultrasound to check up on things. I waited maybe 2-3 weeks for the appointment, and all was clear with no sign of cysts on either ovary. :D And the symptoms just sorted themselves out. GP seems to think it could have been a small urine infection.

I hope all you ladies are well and everyone is recovering.

Enjoy the sunshine!

Trickey x

Hi Everyone

on the 26/3/2015, My daughter bent to pick something up and she got a severe pan on ower left side of abdomen she could not move and the pain was flanked on to right side and she culd not even mve her eg and was crying caled ambulance asked to ake pandol and see how she goes, but she was in so much pain that I took her to ER she had to wak really slowly crying all he way as she moved tothe car, she also vomited 2 times but it was just liquid and frothy as she had only a loctose free diet drink as she has IBS, bloating,  gassy and pains when she has milk even though test did not sow she had intolerance,  Drs did blood test said her LFT AST was 40 and Alt was 50 Urine est wasrd had moderate blood in urine, CRP/Lipase/FBC normal and other   liver test normal,  she has been diagnosed with patchy liver calcificaiton, in 2012 by abdominal CT as she started having bloating , gassy  etc in 2010 her ultrasound was norma. . 

Went two days later to see GP for results as mentioned by ER, but the ultrasound result was not at the GP's . At the ER they gave me nurofen tablets, and as my pressure was 90/55 HR 55 they gave me saline and i felt better, as the pains vanished about an hour later, I only had a limp as the pain went through my left leg but by the next day my leg pain was gone, The GP said t could be my cysts, no reports thoug but just through the symptoms, did any of you take nurofen and have that heled you feel better with the .  Dd any of you have the pain radiate to your leg do you thingk that if it was a cyst and it ruptured they would be able to identify it a day later after the pain was all gone. I am 24 yrs old,

Sorry my daughter is ony 24 years old

Thanks for your time God Bless yu all

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Hey all!! Just a quick update! I had yet another hospital stay last week with the same pain again!!  (it's becoming an all too regular occurence for me!!) After my stay in Feb I had a colonoscopy and gastroscopy which all came back clear, so the Doctors were even more confused this time as I've pretty much had every test available, done to me already with clear results!!  They STILL/NOW think it may be related to my autoimune disease Behcets Syndrome, and are looking at a condition called Vasculitis with/without ulceration of the digestive system!!  I now have to have a capsule camera endoscopy on Monday to see if that can pinpoint what the hell is going on, but if that comes back clear I don't know what will happen!! (I'm still in pain btw!!)  One rather funny Male Nurse at CGH did explain to me, when I was having a particularly depressed day in the ward this stay, that they are looking for a needle in a haystack! First they need to find the haystack, then they need to find the needle!!  And in my positively frustrated, thoroughly depressed mood, that actually put things into perspective for me!! There are SOOOOOOooooo many things in the abdominal region that can cause issues for women, let alone my existing medical condition, that no wonder they are struggling to diagnose what is wrong!!  I will check in again as soon as I have the results of this capsule camera procedure, hopefully with a diagnosis and treatment plan in place!!

Take care everyone!!

Trickey xx

Hiya All!! It's been a while so I thought I'd do an update!

I have been back and fore to the hospital almost every other month since 2012 with the same pain in my lower right side of my abdomen!! I have had pretty much every test and examination you can imagine, from an ultrasound to a capsule endoscopy,and everything in between...And STILL they cannot diagnose me!!!  I have seen gynaecologists, rheumatologists, gastroenterologists, general surgeons and colorectal surgeons plus all of their team members and yet no one can decide what it is or how to treat it!!  It gets me very depressed and i'm highly frustrated, but I feel I just have to keep pushing onwards to get to my diagnosis eventually!! I even joked with the various teams that the only things left to do are a laproscopy or a brain scan!! Lol! /sigh  Anyway, my capsule endoscopy results should be back in a few weeks time so if I get some answers from it, I'll post on here.

I hope everyone on here who has posted about their symptoms, has now had their issue resolved and are feeling on top of the world!

To all those who are still suffering, I feel your pain, but keep smiling and keep on at the medical staff!! We'll get there eventually!!

Take care,

Trickey xx