Hi, new here... Scared, angry...
From: cathy:- (anonymous@medispecialty.com)
Thu Oct 18 23:08:13 2001
...but I try to keep my sense of humor -- I was going to mispell it
"scarred" !
I've been lurking here for about a month, and I thought I'd join in.
For about the last six months I've been having on-and-off pains on my
right side, right where I always get mittelschmerz pain. It's not a big
deal -- like 0, 1, 2, occasionally 3 on a scale of 10, but I've been
obsessing about how this is the "whispered symptom" of one of those
"silent killers" like ovarian cancer or colon cancer where the first
really big symptom is death.
So a month ago I went to my family practitioner, and she listened to my
description of symptoms and said "adhesions" right away. The only
surgery I've every had was my (unnecessary) c-section 7-1/2 years ago.
But the doc thinks that the severe mittelschmerz I've been having every
month the pain is caused by the ovary bleeding into the abdominal cavity
and that just the blood itself is enough to cause adhesions.
Family practitioner sent me to a GYN, who was real casual about the
whole thing. At one point she says brightly, "hey, maybe it's just
adhesions." I had a pelvic ultrasound 2-1/2 weeks ago. Nobody has
called me about the results of the US... Which just really irritates me
-- i'm going to wait and see how long it takes.
And, yeah, I'm mad. All the research I've done on mittelschmerz has
said that it is totally innocuous if annoying while it's happening,
like, "ha ha isn't that cute that stupid little woman thinks that she
knows when she is ovulating." I could have taken the pill and not
ovulated for a lot of those months if I knew that it might be causing
damage. And that I had a c-section because the stupid @$!%&# doctor got
bored with my labor and doing surgery is so much more fun than sitting
around waiting for some stupid wench to dialate... And because I AM
worried about having cancer and I can't seem to get anyone to get the
point -- no, I am not looking for a cure to mittelschmerz, and I'm not
looking to follow some scheme of taking birth control 3 weeks and then
starting again "so I won't have a period." (I actually tried that once
-- I spotted for the next 3-1/2 weeks. Thank you, I'll take the
period.)
Anyway, that was my (LONG) introduction...
--
cathy :-)
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