Hi, everyone
I've been around on and off for a year or so, but rarely do I post. I thought now would be a good time, and I was wondering if anyone else is going through something similar.
I have a great GYN who has been treating me for PCOS for about a year and a half now. I have been on and off the pill, but I decided in April to go off it for good--partly to maybe conceive, but mostly because I just couldn't take the side effects (mood swings mostly). In June, after a couple months off the pill, I asked my Dr. for another ultrasound, as it had been a while since I had one, and I wanted to see if anything had changed. She has the machine right there in her office, so she was happy to oblige.
Well, she found a cyst on my left ovary that was very round and about 17 mm big. No big deal, of course, as cysts are very common, especially with PCOS. So, she decided to wait a couple months and follow up on it. She looked at it in August, and it was pretty much unchanged, so she ordered an MRI to get a closer look at it. When the results from the MRI came back, they said that it was most likely an endometrioma or hematoma, and less likely a solid neoplasm. So, we decided to give it another month and do another ultrasound.
Had another ultrasound last month, and it was still there...maybe a little bigger, and slightly denser. So, my GYN is sending me to an oncologist on December 1st (that's the soonest I could get in). She says it's just as a precaution, but I am still pretty scared. She says that if it were an endometrioma or hematoma that it would normally have disappeared within 2-3 months tops, and it bothers her that she can't tell what it is.
Really, I just want the thing out, because I may need that ovary! But what has really been bothering me is that I haven't been feeling well these last several weeks. Actually, for a few months now, I have been getting super tired in the afternoon for no good reason. I was thinking it was due to blood sugar issues, because I eat a lot of sweets, so I've been really trying to watch what I've been eating. If I have sugar, I have protein with it, mostly is how I've changed my diet, since that what my OB recommended. I have cut back on the sweets, but not completely cut them out. But still, I get SO tired! I am definitely not pregnant, btw.
Also, in the last few weeks, I have been losing weight pretty quickly, without much change in my calorie intake or excercise routine. Usually, around this time of the year, I gain weight. I have been at about 143 for a while now, and then last week I weighed 139. Then today at the gym, I weighed myself and I was 136. Since I normally have a pretty stable weight, even when I try to lose, it's a little unsettling to be losing this weight without even trying.
Could all of this be because of insulin resistance, maybe? Or could I be having symptoms of ovarian cancer? This is going to be TMI, but also, in the last few weeks, whenever I sit for any period of time, my rear hurts, right at the end of my tailbone, like it's bruised. It almost feels like I'm constipated, but I'm not, usually. It actually hurts when I get up.
Oh, and also, my sex drive is almost completely gone. It has been diminishing over the last 6 months or so, but I have almost none to speak of now.
As I said, I go to the oncologist on December first, but I wondered if anyone around here had any thoughts on what was going on, or if anyone has similar symptoms or a similar experience?
Any comments you ladies have would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Teri
26 years old
Dx with PCOS in 2004
Thin cyster
currently on no meds
Married, and would like to ttc sooner than later!
Ovarian Cancer? 
(((hugs))) 
looks good! 
