Hi there, I really appreciate you responding to my post.
This is the nitty gritty - I turned 40 last month, no children, periods are heavy and seem to cause vertigo. I used to be 135lbs and then went down to 105 lbs (without dieting!) in four months. No medical condition - was perfectly healthy until last year and blam - everything started. On apo-lorazepam for anxiety - seen two doctors, two gyn's, two gastro doctors and a naturopathic doctor. No real luck. I'm getting the 'all in my head routine'. Finally got an appt to see a gyn-onc in Feb due to my own footwork. No immediate cancer in my family that I know of.
I started researching back in August wondering why I couldn't get a diagnosis or answers and found many ladies with the same symptoms diagnosed with late stage ovarian cancer - and that it is a difficult cancer to detect - cancer nodules being so small and able to reproduce like wildfire. It seems without a biopsy or surgery the screening tests for this cancer aren't very good.
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Hi there, I really appreciate you responding to my post.
This is the nitty gritty - I turned 40 last month, no children, periods are heavy and seem to cause vertigo. I used to be 135lbs and then went down to 105 lbs (without dieting!) in four months. No medical condition - was perfectly healthy until last year and blam - everything started. On apo-lorazepam for anxiety - seen two doctors, two gyn's, two gastro doctors and a naturopathic doctor. No real luck. I'm getting the 'all in my head routine'. Finally got an appt to see a gyn-onc in Feb due to my own footwork. No immediate cancer in my family that I know of.
I started researching back in August wondering why I couldn't get a diagnosis or answers and found many ladies with the same symptoms diagnosed with late stage ovarian cancer - and that it is a difficult cancer to detect - cancer nodules being so small and able to reproduce like wildfire. It seems without a biopsy or surgery the screening tests for this cancer aren't very good.
Thank you! Lynne
December 31, 2009 - 1:17pmThis Comment
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