When I first had an ovarian cyst rupture, it was so intense, I thought it was the rupturing of my appendix. The pain after that was so intense and to have it linger was depressing and debilitating.
I was shuttled between the gastroenterologist and the gynecologist to run down basically all the abdominal possibilities.
It took a great deal of advocacy on my part and like you, I did not want to go back on birth control, and I was willing to have any and everything taken out just to make the pain stop.
In the end, I found that there was no evidence of a cyst happening when I finally had a laparoscopy that discovered multiple adhesions that correlated to new and different pain that developed in the months after the initial rupture. I.E., pain during urination in my abdomen correlated to an adhesion on my bladder.
What I want to emphasize with you is that no one in all the doctors I saw, gave me a diagnosis. I had to do that myself. What I know is that I have cysts if the functional kind, meaning they don't hang around for a doctor to find after they rupture, but the fluid does and can wreak serious damage if I don't take anti-inflammatory drugs on a regular schedule after an incident. The other big lesson for me is birth control is a must, but my primary care physician was clueless, I had to tell him to prerscribe only the birth control pills that prevent ovulation as that was not what I was prescribed when I finally came to the realization that cysts are a part of my life that need to be managed through birth control. I didn't want to deal with not producing my own hormones without my ovaries.
I do still get cyst ruptures while on my requested treatment. Maybe every 5-6 months. I know what to do now and the pain subsides after about a day (a terrible day mind you).
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When I first had an ovarian cyst rupture, it was so intense, I thought it was the rupturing of my appendix. The pain after that was so intense and to have it linger was depressing and debilitating.
April 6, 2017 - 4:45amI was shuttled between the gastroenterologist and the gynecologist to run down basically all the abdominal possibilities.
It took a great deal of advocacy on my part and like you, I did not want to go back on birth control, and I was willing to have any and everything taken out just to make the pain stop.
In the end, I found that there was no evidence of a cyst happening when I finally had a laparoscopy that discovered multiple adhesions that correlated to new and different pain that developed in the months after the initial rupture. I.E., pain during urination in my abdomen correlated to an adhesion on my bladder.
What I want to emphasize with you is that no one in all the doctors I saw, gave me a diagnosis. I had to do that myself. What I know is that I have cysts if the functional kind, meaning they don't hang around for a doctor to find after they rupture, but the fluid does and can wreak serious damage if I don't take anti-inflammatory drugs on a regular schedule after an incident. The other big lesson for me is birth control is a must, but my primary care physician was clueless, I had to tell him to prerscribe only the birth control pills that prevent ovulation as that was not what I was prescribed when I finally came to the realization that cysts are a part of my life that need to be managed through birth control. I didn't want to deal with not producing my own hormones without my ovaries.
I do still get cyst ruptures while on my requested treatment. Maybe every 5-6 months. I know what to do now and the pain subsides after about a day (a terrible day mind you).
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