What do ovarian cysts feel like?

[stellas]

I've been having lots of dull pain on my left side. It comes and goes, but there is a more persistent pressure. It sometimes feels like something is wedged under my lower ribs. But then sometimes it's fine. I'm more likely to feel the pressure after I eat, but this morning it was very present when I had an empty stomach. Right now I just feel steady dull pain that is radiating from the left across my middle. None of it feels super low, though. It's belly button level.

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Horror and evil.

[stellas]

Mar 3, 2015 16:09:33 GMT -5 @kizmet said:

Are you ovulating? How long has it been going on?

Probably since my last period ended. A few weeks. My period is due in a week.

Oh! Last night I had to get up with dd and when I laid down again I felt a strong uterine cramp, that was all on the left.

[game blouses]

Mine has always felt sharp and low, but that's after they rupture.

[stellas]

I'm wondering if I have a football size fibroid in there or something...

[sandytoes]

Mine always felt like a cramp (like I would get from running).

[miniroller]

Do you have your appendix? (Seems a little high for that, too, though.) I had a cyst, & the dull throbbing was pretty consistent to where I finally called & requested an ultrasound.

[riffraff]

Mar 3, 2015 16:11:37 GMT -5 @fucksticklegit said:

Horror and evil.

this.

I never really felt my cysts until after they ruptured.

[stellas]

Appendix is on the right side, right?

Maybe kidneys?

[gault]

When I had cysts, the pain was pretty focused in the crotchal region. Like, it radiated from the front of me where my pubes started, to back around my ass. It sounds like this is too high on you

[miniroller]

Yes, sorry to cause undue worry w/ stupid appendix suggestion, Stellas!!

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I never had any pain. Totally surprised that I had one. Not much help, I know...

[Eagles]

Are you constipated? I went to the doctor a couple weeks ago with what I thought might be appendicitis (dull cramping alternating with sharp pain, off and on, over on my lower right side) and he said "Could be a cyst since you have a history, or you could just need to go. Go get some prune juice."

[thinkofthesoldiers]

Like having your ovaries twisted in a vice. Oh is that just mine?

[stellas]

Mar 3, 2015 16:25:56 GMT -5 Eagles said:

Are you constipated? I went to the doctor a couple weeks ago with what I thought might be appendicitis (dull cramping alternating with sharp pain, off and on, over on my lower right side) and he said "Could be a cyst since you have a history, or you could just need to go. Go get some prune juice."

I was when it started. I've gotten back to normal now.

[Eagles]

When I had cysts, it was a dull ache, but lower down. When they burst, it felt like being stabbed.

[G22]

Mar 3, 2015 16:19:58 GMT -5 riffraff said:

Mar 3, 2015 16:11:37 GMT -5 @fucksticklegit said:

Horror and evil.

this.

I never really felt my cysts until after they ruptured.

Yup, unfortunately this is me too. By that point I'm curled up in the fetal position with a heating pad.

[stellas]

Mar 3, 2015 16:34:19 GMT -5 kevin arnold said:

Sounds like gas.

I would be very happy if this were the case.

THE CANCER has turned me into a hypochondriac.

[Eagles]

Mar 3, 2015 16:33:59 GMT -5 mofongo said:

Mar 3, 2015 16:32:28 GMT -5 Eagles said:

When I had cysts, it was a dull ache, but lower down. When they burst, it felt like being stabbed.

Was it an ache, but felt like period cramps?? I've been wondering about cysts too.

Kind of, yeah.  Like that deep, dull, crampy ache you get after the first day.  The first day I'm convinced my uterus is trying to escape from my body. 

[riffraff]

Mar 3, 2015 16:34:18 GMT -5 G22 said:

Mar 3, 2015 16:19:58 GMT -5 riffraff said:

this.

I never really felt my cysts until after they ruptured.

Yup, unfortunately this is me too. By that point I'm curled up in the fetal position with a heating pad.

Exactly.

stellas can you get in to see your ob/gyn they can check for a cyst with an ultrasound.

[berbles]

Mar 3, 2015 16:21:26 GMT -5 gault said:

When I had cysts, the pain was pretty focused in the crotchal region. Like, it radiated from the front of me where my pubes started, to back around my ass. It sounds like this is too high on you

This.  My pain is always very low.  Like almost in my groin.  

Not to keep the appendicitis worry going, but the appendix is notorious for deferred pain.  Appendicitis often starts with pain on the left (wrong) side.  The easy appendicitis test is to push into the pain and then let go.  Appendicitis pain hurts when you let go, not when you push down.  

Again, the appendix is low though, so if it's hurting up by your belly button it's probably not that.  Could you have a hernia?

[Eagles]

I should also point out that when I finally called the doctor about the random pain, it was five days after it started.

Me: "So I've been having this off and on pain on my lower right side, and I think I'm fine, but now people are telling me it might be my appendix so I should get checked out."

Nurse: "You should come in."

Me: "But it's been since Saturday. I'd be dead by now, right? So it's probably not appendicitis."

Nurse: "Just come in and get checked out, it's easier than dying."

[flex]

My gyno discovered I had one on my left ovary a couple years during my yearly PAP/pelvic exam. It didn't hurt when she pushed down but I did say "oof" when she did.

I had a follow-up sonogram, and sure enough it was there. I came this close to having all my lady parts removed, but miraculously it went away on its own and NO SURGERY!

[iamali]

I was in thw ER last month because I was pretty certain I had appendicitis.

Turns out, a cyst ruptured.


So yeah, they can be sofa king painful. When in doubt go to the doc though. I'm sure I'd be terribly anxious in your shoes.

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