Ovarian Cyst Removal?!
Question: Ovarian Cyst Removal?
I have had pain for the last 6 months. I was seen at the hospital almost 3 months ago and I had a cyst the size of a golfball. My DR said he wanted to keep an eye on it so a month later I had another ultrasound and it grew to the size a little bigger than a baseball. He wants to remove it now. I have my surgery on the 7th. He thinks he can take it out laproscopic.
My question is, are my chances pretty good on that? I'm afraid its even bigger and when I'm under the knife he will have to do open surgery.
I am a single mom of a 9 month old and am so scared that I will have the open surgery and my recovery will be longer and need more help with my son.
Anyone with similar experience?
The answer I am looking for is:
I know the recovery for laproscopic. I don't want to know about that. But I want to know about chances of me having an open surgery? How big is TOO big for laproscopic?
Please help me. I'm driving myself insane because I won't find out how it went til I wake up :-(
Answers:
I had an ovarian cyst the size of a grapefruit a couple of months ago and the doctor wanted to remove it through laproscopic...when she went in, she discovered that because the cyst was so big it had caused my fallopian tube to wrap around itself 6 times...because it was attached to my tube she decided to just drain the cyst (leaving about 5% of the cyst on my ovary) and not remove it since it could cause scarring of my fallopian tubes and cause me to have problems having children later in life and since i was only 19 she didn't want to do that to me.
the only thing that they had to do differently than expected was to make an additional incision on my abdomen (only about 1/4 in long) and drain the cyst instead of removing it completely. she put me on a low dose of birth control to prevent the cyst from getting any bigger and to prevent any additional cysts from forming again since i had multiple on both ovaries. recovery time was about 6 days and i was able to go back to college and walk around campus without a problem. i can no longer feel any pain and there have been no signs of cysts since.
hope this helps and good luck :)