I had pelvic pain in 2004 for about 2 months. Also low grade fevers, and nauseua. Went to gp, who prescribed pain pills and checked for everything but PCOS, cause it's supposed to be "not that big a deal." Plus, I had a doctor who had read somewhere all women with PCOS have unusual hair growth, and since I didn't, I couldn't have it. Finally got an us, and was told I had a dermoid cyst and had to have surgery the next day before my ovary burst. Turned out that it was just a bunch of cysts on my ovary (I only have the one b/c of a congenital defect). They scraped the cysts out and put a special 'gauze' to help prevent the cysts, and switched my bcp. Still have problems, but not pain like it was, and feel much better overall then I did before the surgery. Moral of the story is this- sometimes PCOS really is *all* that's wrong with you- but if they (read- doctors, nurses, etc.) had a big huge ball in their abdomen like my cyst-filled swollen ovary pressing on everything else, they'd probably be in pain and sick too! Surgery can be a pain (particularly if, like me, they can't do it laproscopically), but if you get a good surgeon, he should be able to save the ovary. Beware of anybody who wants to just rip it out!
Don't be afraid to ask about options. You shouldn't have to live in a fetal position your whole life.
