Really Nervous

[hope1517.livejournal.com]

 

Yesterday I ended my period and today is that day where the system finishes emptying everything out. But yesterday and today I have terrible pressure and sometimes little sharp pains in my ovaries area on my ab area. Now normally during my period and especially when I ovulate I get pressure in those areas,,,does anyone else?

But now that my periods over and I'm not ovulating I'm nervous its something like ovarian cancer. I've heard that one of the only real symptoms of ovarian cancer are pressure and sharp pains in the lower ab areas and lower back. I'm now nervous and maybe I don't have to be, is this normal? It's not exactly like cramps, its more on the lower sides where the ovaries would be, and its more like pressure and a little sharp at times. It's less today, I barely notice but yesterday it was worse.

Thanks!

Comments

[destinyawakened.livejournal.com]

Directly after your period? Could be your uterus contracting back down. Not saying that is for sure, but I have had this same thing before and my gyno told me it was just my uterus. So maybe?

[hope1517.livejournal.com]

It's just like a pressure feeling, today its BARELY there. Only when I twist certain ways. idk...I should go to the doctor but I'm broke. I just wanted to see if anyone else had similar feelings.

Like do you get that pressure pain during ovulation? Its like that.

I know its normal for young woman to develop ovarian cysts, most do not even know they ever have them because they go away in weeks or a couple months. I know my mom has some every once in a while and they go away. idk

Think I should be really concerned?

[hope1517.livejournal.com]

Also, I had a yearly gyno checkup this past december (so like 4 months ago) and she pressed on my ovary areas and everything seemed normal. But idk how fast things like cancer and such can develop

[destinyawakened.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say it was cancer (but don't quote me on that, because these things do happen). But cysts are likely, I had a few small ones when I was teen that caused some awful pains (a lot like ovulation pain but sharper) that would happen right before and directly after my period. My gyno told me i most likely had endometriosis (spelling is bad, sorry) but she never wanted to find out for sure and i ended up on birth control for years just to find out later that I did not have it, that the pains i was having were likely due to cysts and my uterus contracting up and down from going to have my period to just getting off my period. I also found this out after having my daughter a year and half ago and the pains were awful a month after wards when my uterus was continuing to shrink back after giving birth. I asked my NEW gyno and she said it was just that, the uterus contracting down, which could push against the ovaries.

Again, don't quote me on this, doctors differ in opinions, but this seemed the most logical to me. It hurts like ovulation and doesnt like long, but still hurts like hell.
When you get money or have a chance to go to maybe a PP, have them check it out just in case.

[hope1517.livejournal.com]

I took your advice and went to the gyno. They checked my ovaries with an ultrasound and found nothing. And they did a regular examine and saw nothing out of the norm either. yet I'm still feeling these sharp pressure feelings and its about 6 days since my period ended. I'm so confused1

[fireaphid.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel better, I've gotten similar sharp pains in my ovaries right after my period ends pretty much since I first got my period. I always assumed it was ovulation pain, since I have a really short cycle, or maybe that I might have (harmless) cysts. To be fair, I've never been to a gyno (I just turned 21 and am still a virgin, didn't see much reason until recently anyway), but I don't think that necessarily means you have cancer.

[daysees.livejournal.com]

I don't think you have cancer. I had a similar experience a few months ago. If you get some money go see a doctor, it might be a cyst. They are benign but can be very painful.

[queensugar.livejournal.com]

I would absolutely not leap to ovarian cancer as any sort of reasonably likely concern. I don't know how old you are, but assuming you're relatively young, it is extremely rare to get ovarian cancer under age 34; of the 21,650 people in the US who are diagnosed with ovarian cancer in a year, about 95% are over age 34.

I would be much more inclined to suspect it was something like an ovarian cyst, or even just gas, especially since it's been getting better. That said, if it continues feel free to ask a doctor -- but I wouldn't be really concerned at this point, at all.