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Originally Posted by WhiteDaisy128
Thanks gents! Yeah, they thought it might have been a kidney stone at first...and then they thought it was my appendix...and they settled on a massive ovarian cyst.
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I luckily haven't had to go through it, but one of my good friends from college did. (She was just out of school.) And she got some inadequate medical care with the ER. Apparently, they assumed any young women presenting with abdominal pain must have Pelvic Inflammatory Disease and gave her some antibiotics and sent her on her way.
My friend knew she didn't have PID; her funny comment to me was that she couldn't have it unless she could give it to herself (since she wasn't sexually active). But because, I guess once the cyst ruptured she didn't really have any more symptoms, she didn't follow up as much as she should have, which of course isn't the ER's fault.
Several years later, she experienced another cyst on the same ovary and in the course of treatment they discovered pretty pronounced necrosis related to the first cyst in her ovary and she had to have the whole ovary removed.
So basically, make sure you get some good follow up care. And yes, she said the pain from the cyst was excruciating.