I have a painful mass in my lower right abdomen with radiating pain encompassing the right hip that makes my right leg ache. Swallowing is gradually becoming more difficult. Chronically constipated. Fear of eating. Intermittent gasping for a deep breath. Tinnitus. Freezing cold hands and feet. Have to get into hot bath to warm up my core. I know I am not long for this world and I am just not ok about it. This life just seems so stupid now.
Leslie, I had bad pain with an ovarian cyst, my whole leg was in such pain. And I’ve had all your other symptoms too. Convinced I was dying as well.
Have you had an mri or pt scan to check your abdomen to see what the mass is?
My heart goes out to you Leslie. None of us are long for this world. I'm praying for you right now.
You should have the mass checked by s doctor, but the rest of it sounds like menopause symptoms. I have been in bed all weekend. I can't make myself do the simplest of chores. It's 2:30pm and I'm still in bed, knowing these chores must be done before work tomorrow. I have no get up and go. I'm not really tired, I think apathetic is a better word.
Oh my goodness! Can you get any help honey? I think you need a medical check? Life is very precious and you must try to get some help. Ru in UK? If so try dialling 111 for help . Please take care x
Check with your doc, if it is not an actual mass but trapped gas and stool then do massages. Lay down flat on a hard surface. try massaging your belly starting from your collar bone down. Deep. If you feel tenderness focus on that area, press and hold untill you hear gurgling, it is the trapped gas moving away. Proceed down and around the whole belly. Get a tennis ball and start pressing your back against the wall with a ball. Look for tender spots and lean against the ball. do it on your buttocks next to the rectum as well. Take magnesium. This should relieve your constipation. i thought I had a mass, and it was just my bowels slowing down due to lack of hormones. I have to eat less, and massage my belly often in a supine position. Sometimes I actually have to lay on my belly with a thick, hard book under me. But, again check with your doctor to make sure you have no actual mass there because you should not do any of the above in that instance!
Poor thing ! I have medical training done. em and I think should really should see your doc or a&e. You know all your feeling and going through can be sorted out. Please dont feel helpless talk talk to someone as soon as you can.dont despair darling lots of love to u xxxx
Oh my dear Leslie, you are so down due to this. If you have an obvious swelling on the lower right of your abdomen, you must go to the dr or get the dr to come to you as it could and I stress could be a grumbling appendix. Dont ignore it. As for everything else you are feeling if your symptoms are so extreme like mine were, you should think about whether HRT is for you. I have been on it just over 1 month, and although I still get some symptoms, they are at a level I can deal with. You dont sound like you are coping well at all, but know this. YOU ARE NEVER ALONE ON THIS FORUM. There are loads of us, all over the world who know exactly how you are feeling because we have or are there right now. There is always someone here to talk to anytime day or night so dont feel that it is the wrong time to contact anyone. We are here when YOU need us to talk to. Give it over to god if you are a believer. Your faith can help carry you through this horrendus transformation.I wish I could reach out both my arms to you and give you a big hug and we could have a good cry together. Pm me at anytime you wish. I rarely sleep and if I do I wake up after about an hour so I will always reply quickly. Please dont give up. XX
Have you seen a Dr. concerning this yet? Things are usually much worse in our mind then in reality. Hang in there. Big hugs!!
Oh I forgot. Due to regular constipation due to a lazy bowel, I take a good dose of Ducolax coated laxative pills every night. You may also want to take Windease simeticone pills which disperse trapped wind. Believe it or not a good belt of gripe water can help too not just for babies. You may also need a short course of mild antidepressants to perk you up, your life is worth everything to your loved ones so dont allow yourself to feel so worthless. You may find counselling helpful or cbt from a good psycotherapist. This is mainly your hormones, remember that sweetie.XX
Rather than taking pills, why don't you try flax seeds for the constipation and ginger for everything else. Works a treat for me!
I take a spoonful of lightly crushed flax seed with my porridge and cinnamon in the morning. That way I get a good dose of Omega 3 and the whole seeds and husks act like dyno-rod for the bowel.
Any sort of upset stomach and I have a piece of ginger, candied or pickled, it doesn't matter, both work well.
Hi Leslie, I am sorry to hear that you are in pain. Over the last two years I have been dealing with a lot of different symptoms, and all started out with lower right abdominal pain. I was convinced I had something on my ovary because of the pain and the bladder urgency.....but I had two different ultra sounds done and they found nothing.....my anxiety started as I was worried they missed something and that is when all the other symptoms followed. I have been to many doctor appointments, many many tests and nothing is found. My anxiety has become off the charts no matter how Itry and manage it, it is now effecting my digestive tract.....what I would suggest is at least have a doctor check you over and have the tests done that they suggest to rule out anything you are concerned about...hopefully that will help you cope. I see my doctor in a couple weeks and Iam going to ask for a low dose of anti anxiety meds in hopes that I can get my anxiety under control so hopefully some of my symptoms settle down. This is a tough time for most of us women, some are so fortunate to sale through with a little hot flash, but many of us get a full box of symptoms that they don't tell us is hormonal or lack of. Good Luck and take care.
Hi linda
Yeah crippling anxiety can actualy bring on so many chronic symptoms and can sometimes think oh my god I cant cope......but I went on tabs for anxiety and I must say its the best thing ive ever done. Yeah I still have crap symtoms but no stress in my belly or gut no feelings of panic. Highly recommended.i can cope daily now .and I always say never suffer I never liked being on tabs but hey!! So be it .one life live it and cherish waking up each day I now hear the birds again and see blue skies .heads up it will all pass xxxxx
Thanks, yes I have held off for many years, but it has become unbearable as my whole body feels in knots most of the time even wen I am not doing much. I feel like I am missing out on life because I let my anxieties take over. I get anxious leaving my house, the only time I am calm is when I don't have to be out in the world....and this is not me. The physical symptoms are there, back pain, muscle tension in the abdomen....and I feel like my adrenaline is in overdrive. So I am hoping I find some relief in some low dose meds. It is winter where I live and I have been indoors we get a lot of snow, and all the animals and birds are few and far between....so I know once spring comes I will feel better.
Apart from the swelling, all your symptoms also sound like thyroid problems. These can be treated. Please reach out and get some help. Do you have a friend or relative who will go to the doctor with you?
Thanks so much for your reply. I have an appointment Tues with a Gastrointernologist. Will hopefully get to the bottom of this abdominal mass situation. I recently had an ultrasound done at my right hip groin area but it looked normal? !! Lymphs are fine. This abdominal issue has been intermittent and last year I had gone to the ER and they did a CT scan and even that was inconclusive. Of course I catastrophise (?) everything because I have been in this state for two years now. I am just days away from getting onto BHRT which I have been clawing my way to for the hoops you have to hobble through. But even that scares me now. What if? What if? So now I just go ahead and say to myself (and my poor husband) that I know my body is riddled with stage 4 cancers and I am on my way out. I figure instead of living in fear of the what ifs, I'll just jump ahead and pretend I actually am one giant cancerous blob. That way if it turns out to be true I'll already have accepted it. I'm weird. Thank you again for your input. It really helps.
Hi Tina . Thanks for responding. I have had this abdominal thing going on for about a year and a half and have had a CT scan done and nothing came back abnormal. They said they could see a very small kidney stone but nothing else. They said they couldn't ecen see my appendix so that was apparently a good thing? More recently had an ultrasound done and again and, nothing. I am soon to get onto BHRT so hopefully that may reduce some of my other myriad of symptoms. I'm having to drink Magnesium citrate in order to have a bm. The bottle of liquid you take before a colonoscopy. Yeah, that delicious stuff. My bowels are just not working. I can't believe how many symptoms have piled on these last two years. I had been on antidepressants for 20 years and probably went through peri during those years without really knowing. I finally tapered off the pills at the beginning of 2016 and it's been absolute hell since. Up until just recently did it come to mind that what I am experiencing may be due to hormonal imbalance. I had been attributing everything to withdrawal symptoms from the antidepressants. I bet you I have been post menopausal for a few years now. How are you getting along with all this? Are you able to do ordinary things like get the mail without a major production? 3 days ago I turned the living room into a war zone from a tirade. I think being held back from these debilitating symptoms p***es me off very deeply and I go into a rage, like a caged panther. This forum sure does help though, reading your tales of woe and encouraging words. We really go through it don't we. Giant hugs to you dear. I say I am dying 1) because it feels like it and 2) in case I actually am it won't be a big surprise because I already thought I was. It's a weird deal. Anyway, thank you for caring. Hope I can be helpful to someone soon.
Hi hon. I tried that and chia also and no such luck. I had to drink Magnesium citrate to get the job done. My bowels are just not doing much at all. I do hear gurgling so there is signs of life in there. Hopefully not some gastric alien creature!! I will probably have to rely on this magnesium citrate until tues when I finally get in with the gut dr. I am worried about what this mass is. Of course I've spent the last several days Googling what it could be. I'm convinced zI have malignant cancer that has spread throughout my entire body and they just keep missing it with each test. I'm a nightmare. Hope your journey isn't as challenging as mine has been. You're probably not the complaining drama queen that I am either. That certainly makes a difference. I do appreciate the support from you great ladies though. You get it. XX
HiLinda. Sorry you're struggling with anxiety Isn't it just the worst! I had it so extreme last summer I was terrified we were going to war with N Korea and insisted I go and stay on our woodland property in our RV far away from the city just in case. I mean I had it really, really bad. We live 2 miles from a military base and I just kept obsessing over feeling like at any moment a bomb blast was gonna come from the west side of our house. I am not in that head space any longer mainly due, I believe to the sleeping pills I have been taking regularly since early Dec. Insomnia kicked in 2 years ago and that alone will drive you seriously mad, and I mean clinically. This hormonal imbalance stuff is freaking ridiculous!! Nobody told me I was going to feel like death lurking. My sister nor my mother had anything like what I am going through. I do believe that being on antidepressants for half my life put me in a really vulnerable position. I'm just about to go onto BHRT. We'll see how it goes. Tuesday I see the gut doctor so I am already telling myself I have cancer so that when they tell me that I do, it won't be such a shock. Great strategy, I know. Hugs. XX
Hi hon. Actually I just had my thyroid testing done last week and it's fine. So that's good. This lump thing is in my lower right abdomen, where the ascending colon is. Maybe even the ileocecal valve. I don't know if it could be a fatty tumor? An obstruction? Cancer? I see the gut doc Tuesday. After dealing with this issue among too many others to list, I am reluctantly going to find out what this is. Hope you're in better shape than I am at the moment. Thanks for responding dear. Helps to know other women know where I am coming from.