Postby debb » Mon Sep 07, 2015 9:35 am
I'm sorry you're going through this right now. I'm sorry also that I'm about to give you a different opinion, based on my own experience.
Get that cyst removed. It's causing you pain & fever...and mental anguish and uncertainty. The procedure will be laparoscopic and you'll be out that day.
I had a cyst that was bothering me..not pain but I could feel it. My doc had me on watchful waiting for a few menstual cycles and said it didn't present as cancer (fluid filled) and a few vag US. I just wanted it out. I was feeling it more and had some pain while running.
So I had surgery. I was told presurgery that if it was "just a cyst" that I'd have just that ovary removed. If the cyst was a CRC met, he'd take both ovaries. And if it were ovarian cancer, I'd wake with a hysterectomy.
It was a CRC met. I had both ovaries removed. And in the time between the surgical appt and the actual surgery, the cyst had burst. The docs tested the fluid and results said no cancer cells. But I was too afraid off that fluid being in my abdomen and also of the local recurrence of CRC in my ovaries. So 6 weeks later, I had HIPEC.
So consider asking for that sucker to be removed. At the very least, it'll relieve your symptoms and you'll be home very quickly.
(Also, if I'm not mistaken, CA 125 blood tests for ovarian cancer, and we're concerned with a CRC met...so are those results helpful in our situation?)
Good luck!!!
2008, Stage 3C, age 42, mom of 4
Folfox 9/08-2/09
Met to right ovary, both removed 7/10
HIPEC 8/10
VATS 7/12, right lung
10/14 Stivarga clinical trial
3/15-7/15 Folfiri & avastin
8/16 Folfiri & avastin
Break! 10 months of freedom
1/18 - 4/23 many Folfiri & Avastin
6/23 Clinical trial REGN7075. Progression
8/23 radiation to femurs and L4
9/23 rechallenged Folfox. Allergic reaction at 4th infusion
11/23 will start Bot/Bal