Cyst update

Geez, Glenda, what are you feeding that cyst?  Miracle grow?  So what's the plan?  Is it going to aspirated?  I know what you're going through.  My kidney stones were in my head according to a few doctors.  Yeah 13mm of in my head.

I have a large, calcified fibroid that an ob once called "my pet"! But it doesn't sound like you should get too attached to yours, hopefully it will be crossing it's own "rainbow bridge" soon!

I have had 3 operations to remove cysts and growths on my ovaries. Some were bigger then my ovaries. I found them very painful. I also have some other internal problems the contribute to the pain but i dont care what anyone says they HURT. and just when you think that pain is going to stop you shift a certain way and then you feel it all over again. Sometimes they will naturally go away so lets hope for that because surgery isnt very fun either

Um Glenda, are they absolutely sure that it wasn't a typo?  That's awfully darn tiny, and it's hard to imagine any Dr. wouldn't be concerned about something multiplying in size that fast.  If it continued to grow at that rate every few days, you'll need to buy new clothes real soon [8|].  I've had a uterine fibroid that's been about 5 cm for several years.  It gives me some problems too (cramping, lower back pain), so I know something relatively small, can cause big problems.  I'm glad it's nothing serious though.  My friend also had her ultrasound yesterday for a kidney cyst.  Her's showed up as 8 cm on an MRI, so hopefully it'll be nothing serious too.

Nope, it's not a typo.  They doublechecked the CT scan and are standing by the original milmeter number and rechecked the US and are standing by that one too.  My pants are a joke....baggy in the legs and tight in the belly.  I see the doc tommorow and we'll decide where to go from there.  To this day I remember the horrific pain when the ovarian cyst ruptured 30 some years ago......just hope I'm not driving when this baby decides to pop.....

Glenda, not to sound painfully stupid but what will they do for this?  Remove it?  let it rupture?  drain it?  sell it on e-bay?  huh???
 
Sorry hon -- not making light of it.  and if the small of your back hurts you don't WANT to laugh. 
 
Billy says remember Stoneyfield Rockin Raspberry will make ANYTHING feel bedder!!!  Oh yeah -- and liverwurst!!  (that's my dog talkin, dearheart -- not me!!)

I see the doc tommorow and we'll decide where to go from there

 
Okay, if you incyst.
 
Sorry, I've been looking for a way to sneak that pun in and it wasn't easy.
 

Callie, I don't know.  The doc didn't seem terribly concerned about it, nor about the rapid growth.  But, what he doesn't really realize I don't think is that as short waisted as I am, there isn't ROOM for extra stuff in there!  The surgeon who removed my uterus told me after the surgery that "things are pretty tightly packed in there" and was amazed that I'd not had horrible problems during my pregnancies.
 
I have NO appetite and haven't for two weeks almost.  I eat 3-4 bites when my stomach starts screaming for food, but other than that, nothing.  I'm just not hungry cuz I feel soooo full all the time, and that's from that tiny little extra being in there.  And there is enough pressure that I'm in the bathroom peeing up a storm every 30 minutes or so.  So, I'm not having fun yet.
 
All they typically do is manage the pain once they've done a needle aspiration to be sure nothing funky is going on.  If they're gonna aspirate the danged thing to test the fluid, they best take ALL of it!
 
Tell Billy for me that I'm eating a lot of little bits of just that flavor!!  But, that I'll pass on the liverwurst!  I am taking plenty of cranberry sups tho.....just to try to avoid a UTI with the kidney being impaired.
 
And Ron, that was cute!  Good thinking!

Wow, that's big.

I hope the dr can do something to make it feel better. Something that size bursting would HAVE to be bad. Yowch.

To be honest, at this point I wish it would just blow.....go out in a final burst of agonizing glory and be done with it.  I look pregnant for heavens sakes!  And it FEELS like I'm having back labor! [:'(]

My doc kept insisting that a cyst doesn't hurt.  He wanted to find another cause of the pain.  He didn't dispute the PAIN, just felt that it had to be coming from something other than the cyst.
 
As I said, I first noticed this riding home from the facility where Mom lives and because my sweater wasn't totally flat in the back.....I am NOT a pea and princess kind of gal and that's not something that I would normally even notice...a tiny extra fold of fabric is just not something that's gonna register on my brain.
 
So I got poked and prodded and examined to elicit maximum pain.......then my doc talked to the radiologist who said, well, yeah, a cyst THIS large in a body that small (inside only unfortunately) is going to cause one heck of a lot of pain.  They reveiwed the CT and there is absolutely NOTHING else to cause the pain......just the cyst, and now, doc to doc, someone did make a mistake so it hasn't grown much.
 
Then my doc explained my options.....wait and see and medicate me for a few more days, or get set up with a radiologist to aspirate the danged thing, which does require sedation so I don't squirm during the procedure.  I opted for the wait and see.  He was going to give me the vicodin that I normally get for my shoulder, (7.5/750) but I asked for the 5/500 instead.  It's less potent, but I can also take it and still function, still drive without being impaired.  I reminded him that I still have some of the big boys at home that I can use if needed at night, but that I'd rather take the lower dose that allows me to be at least 99% normal (if that's an option for me[])
 
I am always sooo concious of the fact that these are NARCOTICS, can be addicting, and I've taken them on and off for way too many years and with my shoulder, will have to continue taking them.  I'm trying to find a pain doc to do botox injections into the right shoulder girdle and I'm trying to hold off until I'm at least 60 to have the first replacement done...these only last 10-15 years and you can only have them done 3 times max.....Mom will be 83 this month so I'd just as soon be younger and in constant pain than really OLD and in pain with no options left, if that makes sense.  But, (there is a point to this) I don't want to get labeled as a drug seeker and have to suffer for the next however many years or be forced into the replacement before I'm ready to have it done.....I want to do this thing on a timetable that will work best for ME longterm....of course, I'll probably wait and suffer on and off and have the FIRST replacement done only to get run over by a bus the next day.........
 
Anyway.....that's where we stand.  I'll continue to manage the pain for now, and if it gets worse, or doesn't improve in a weeks time, we'll go ahead with the aspiration.  Let's just hope it pops while I'm in the woods with the dogs today and gets the darned pain over with.......

I guess they're going about it cyst-ematically, eh?
 

LOL!!
 
So, since this thing is the size of an egg, do ya think you can come up with a word that uses EGG and CYST???

Only if it was an egg-cyst-ing condition.