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Oct 06, 2019, 07:36 PM
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Member Since: Jul 2019
Location: Downtown Vibes, California
Posts: 15,701
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Hi  Your situation is heartbreaking. I'm sorry you're having so many miserable physical symptoms.
I want to share something with you. I am also 56 and in 2014 I was found to have the same type of ovarian cyst you're having surgery to remove. It also was large; far larger than my ovary (the surgeon told me it was the size of an orange). Very oddly, I did not have extreme discomfort (to this day I don't understand why). I was not fully out of menopause, but close.
After the ultrasound I was scheduled for surgery. I knew that there was a chance that I might have cancer. For some reason I felt fairly at peace with whatever I was going to face. That said, I certainly did not want cancer.
The surgery was smooth (the destroyed right ovary with the cyst was removed, as were my Fallopian tubes). Everything was normal. No cancer, nothing odd except the cyst itself. I healed well, felt much better, and went on through a normal menopause.
Have you had the CA-125 blood work yet?
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