MRI results and...unexpected news.

[Andara Bledin]

My aunt had what was likely one of these.

When they found it, they estimated it was the size of a softball. When they finally pulled it out, it turned out to be the size of a pineapple and weighed something like 6 lbs.

^-.-^

[Seshat]

Teratology - the study of faulty development - is a fascination of mine.

Studying such misdevelopments can provide major assistance to scientists researching not just congenital diseases, but other diseases as well. If you don't especially care what happens to the cyst when they remove it, please consider donating it for research. (They might also, if you do that, ask you for a cheek swab so they can compare your healthy DNA to the teratoma's DNA and RNA.)

The good news is that it's benign (or at least, has some chance like 99.999% of being benign), and once removed it's gone for good. Almost all of these are just bits of you that got the wrong message in utero, and instead of becoming what they were supposed to become (in this case, ovary), became something else.

[LewisLegion]

I wasn't really squicked by the info on dermoids more interested but I'm strange.

Don't get me wrong, it's absolutely fascinating...just while its inside other people. ROFL. I keep envisioning this Alien moment where it's just going to burst out of my stomach and go snarling around the office. Doesn't help that the first site I went to, to find out what it was, had a photo of one complete with teeth **shudder**

My doc mentioned a laproscopy so while she didn't mention the exact size, I'm thinking it's still small enough to be removed via that...won't know until my gyno says for sure, though. I'm hoping for the laproscopy. I can't afford to be out of work for six weeks, back for a month or two, then out again for another six to twelve weeks when I go in to have my hip fixed.

[AccountingDrone]

You are very strange...that's why I like you.

thanks =) I like being strange. Makes the world more interesting for others

[42_42_42]

I had benign tumors develop on both of my ovaries about a year and a half apart. So I've had that lovely surgery twice. Depending on how big it is (one of mine was the size of an American football, the other the size of a softball), you'll need a good 4-6 weeks recovery time before you're up and about and able to go back to work full-time.

[lineswine]

LOL I had one in each ovary we nicknamed Ricky and Lucy to go with the cysts in each breast named Fred and Ethyl ...

You are very strange...that's why I like you.

[AccountingDrone]

Ok, so my doc called me just as I got off work last night with the results. Seems I have a benign tumor called a dermoid cyst in my ovary.

For those of you who don't know what a dermoid cyst is, DO NOT look it up if you are even remotely squeamish. I looked it up and I am seriously disturbed. Totally squicky!

So I'm making an appointment today to see the gynecologist, who will set a surgical date in the next month to have it removed.

My room-mate named it 'Raoul'.

LOL I had one in each ovary we nicknamed Ricky and Lucy to go with the cysts in each breast named Fred and Ethyl ...

[Lady Legira]

I had a dermoid cyst on my right ovary, it was only found because I was having my tubes cut. It was the size of a cricket ball when it was removed. I wasn't really squicked by the info on dermoids more interested but I'm strange.

Surgery for it wasn't too bad considering it's major abdominal (got a nice caesarean scar ) recovered well and found out I have PCOS about a year or so later. Usual things for that kind of surgery, no heavy lifting for 6 weeks, painkillers (I had to ask for a different type as I was allergic to the ones they normally give out), and gentle exercise.

[LewisLegion]

Ok, so my doc called me just as I got off work last night with the results. Seems I have a benign tumor called a dermoid cyst in my ovary.

For those of you who don't know what a dermoid cyst is, DO NOT look it up if you are even remotely squeamish. I looked it up and I am seriously disturbed. Totally squicky!

So I'm making an appointment today to see the gynecologist, who will set a surgical date in the next month to have it removed.

My room-mate named it 'Raoul'.

[LewisLegion]

Aww, thank you laborcat ;D

[laborcat]

OMG I'm so sorry. That had to hurt. I've had those, without that problem, and they hurt. If you're ever in my area, I'll buy you dinner to make up for it!

[LewisLegion]

Well, they were supposed to do both, the abdominal and the extra-special one, but she said that because I'd already had the MRI done there was no need for the abdominal, just the other.

Let's just say...it was VERY uncomfortable. Something I hadn't thought about....

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The probe had to go all the way up to my cervix and, despite my age (which surprised the doctor) certain things were still...ahem...let's say intact. And could not remain intact if they were going to do the scan.

Yeah. And I didn't even get dinner first

[Seshat]

Quoting myself:

Some are done through the probe, some with a hand scanner over your belly.

And yeah .. vaginal probe. Lubricant there, too. Wear a panty liner.

[Sleepwalker]

The paper towels they give you never do a good enough job of getting the lubricant off your belly.

Belly?

My cyst ultrasound was a bit more...intimate.

[LewisLegion]

Thanks Phoenix and Seshat

Ultrasound is first thing tomorrow morning. So not looking forward to it...