"we don't know"
Those aren't really words of comfort, much less what you want to hear from you medical professionals when your innards are hurting and you'd like some answers. However, that, and a few hypotheses were all I got after my ultrasound yesterday. The radiologist didn't 'see anything wacky' and the technician said, "We won't be calling your Dr. with an emergency or anything...' but that doesn't bring any peace of mind whatsoever, especially since it came with the addendum, "... and if it happens again, you be sure and come back, y'all, hear?"
Internal medicine is a scary thing. Without cutting you open, the best a person can hope for is a clue from the wonderful diagnostic tests we have available. Xray, ultrasounds, blood and tissue and culture samples give really great clues, but not always a definitive answer. Sometimes, all the clues point to one direction, but even then the screening is sometimes deemed 'inconclusive' because some threshold or other hasn't been met.
Current hypothesis on my ovarian situation is that I likely had a cyst causing the 'grotesquely enlarged ovary' and the stabbing abdominal pains. I say had because the bulk of the pain and the swelling appear to be gone now. So today, all's well that ends well.
I have this nagging feeling, though ~ call me a pessimist if you must ~ that this is far from over(y).
Internal medicine is a scary thing. Without cutting you open, the best a person can hope for is a clue from the wonderful diagnostic tests we have available. Xray, ultrasounds, blood and tissue and culture samples give really great clues, but not always a definitive answer. Sometimes, all the clues point to one direction, but even then the screening is sometimes deemed 'inconclusive' because some threshold or other hasn't been met.
Current hypothesis on my ovarian situation is that I likely had a cyst causing the 'grotesquely enlarged ovary' and the stabbing abdominal pains. I say had because the bulk of the pain and the swelling appear to be gone now. So today, all's well that ends well.
I have this nagging feeling, though ~ call me a pessimist if you must ~ that this is far from over(y).
Comments
I fell through the cracks when my doctor was on vacation and so was the OBGYN. They each thought the other had contacted me after a biopsy but neither one had. I just figured all was well, no news is good news.
A few months later I went to the doctor for some unrelated thing and she asked me if I had heard back from OBGYN. No I hadn't. The two of them ran in circles bumping into each other like Lucy and Ethel. Next thing I knew WHAM-biopsy-BAM-D&C-WHAMBAM-hysterectomy. Turned out I had uterine cancer but it had not penetrated the uterine wall so it all went away with the hysterectomy.
Now I'm not saying anything about you having something wrong or needing surgery or anything of that nature. My point is that if I had not gone into the doctor for some other thing I could be dead right now.
I tell everybody now that if something is wrong don't depend on busy doctors to do your thinking for you. We all need to be proactive with our health care now-a-days. Most people don't listen and think I'm being dramatic but I don't care I tell anyways.
... end of speil ...
Hope all is well, and you don't have it happen again
And Billie - like I said - my spidey-senses are telling me that this is FAR from over...
Thanks for the concern.
Maybe yoga has been paying off though? Sometimes the body does heal itself. Not saying you shouldn't be on hyper alert either though.
**hugs**
I thought I was wrong once, but it turns out I was mistaken.