@jonsblond what is the next step in diagnosis/treatment?
Here is a story that might help. A couple of months ago my sister had some very serious bleeding between periods. To go along with it she had bloating, early satiety, and loss of appetite. She went to the doctor who scheduled an immediate ultra-sound. The news wasn’t good: they found a large mass in one of her ovaries. They scheduled surgery for as quick as they could get her in – less then a week (the doctor even came in during her vacation to perform the surgery). As we waited about two years for the week to pass we searched the internet over and over. With our mother’s having died of ovarian cancer, our intimate knowledge of the symptoms of ovarian cancer, the results of the CA-125 being out of whack, and all the links we were connecting to, my sister and I had resigned ourselves to the fact that she was going to be diagnosed with ovarian cancer. All we could hope for was that it was confined to the ovary. The day of the surgery finally came. We cried and prayed and held our breaths. I waited with her husband and daughter. I was alone in the waiting room when the doctor came out. I walked right up and she delivered the results. It was a big mass, they took the whole ovary. I asked the question I wasn’t sure I wanted an answer to: Do you think it was cancer? The doctor looked at me and said, “I don’t think so – well I know it isn’t cancer.” It wasn’t ovarian cancer, it was a benign cyst, they removed it and my sister is doing great.
The moral of the story is that the internet can be a very frightening place, especially for medical stuff. Keep thinking positive thoughts, know you are in everyone’s thoughts (and for those of us so inclined) prayers, and keep moving forward.