Ovarian Cancer Risk and Still No Hysterectomy – Antionette’s Story

I am horrified that in this day and age so many women have to suffer in silence and when they speak out because they have had enough they are made to feel stupid and worthless. I sympathise a lot as I have been suffering with heavy periods since my teens, was put on the pill for this at 16 got pregnant at 19 whilst on the pill, after having my daughter it got worse. From then on I had more pain clotted periods a couple of D & C’s then I had my son, then even more pain I had a laparoscopy where they found cysts on my ovary. All the time the pain was getting worse. I then had my last child when I was 27 and I was sterilised as I did not want any more children. I was given the mirena coil at the same time to reduce the periods and pain as they were so heavy lasted 9-10 days and very clotted. It helped for 4 years and then gradually got worse again, I suffer from depression I cry at virtually any program that has anything remotely sad including all soaps, I feel ridiculous! It has got so bad in the last 18 months I had insisted my doctor refer me to a gynae again, since being seen I have been tested for everything I have a prolapse, stress incontinence; I have had 4 x C125 tests for ovarian cancer which have all come back more than double level it should be. My gynae says this is because I have fibroids which they found on the ultra sound. I have been enlisted on the MEDAL study which is research being done currently to see if they can get better results from an MRI scan vs...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - Category: OBGYN Authors: Tags: Cancer Your Stories CA125 pelvic pain Source Type: news