Please help ladies my friend is dying from pancreatic and liver cancer she is only 45 and went through IVF. She had an article in the Daily Mail last week, sadly some of the comments were awful linking ivf to cancer.
Since then my health anxiety has been awful. I had IVF 4 times before we had twins. I am concerned that spotting, bloating, lower back pain, weight gain is something like ovarian c. I am too frightened even to write it.
I had a hysterscopy and biopsy last year in May 2018 and all was normal but my ca125 tested last year is always a bit higher as I have a history of endometriosis etc. My bloods last year revealed I was in peri menopause and I haven’t had a proper period for 4 months.
Had some bloods done all normal except for liver as gamma elevated but doctor doesn’t want to see me until next year.
Please offer any reassurance I am 47.
Gm Ellie
I’m so sorry about your friend 
😢
I’m 52 yrs old and I have been going thru peri meno for a few yrs now , I haven’t had a period in 6 months but that doesn’t clear me full menopause ,last yr I had no period for 6 months and then all of a sudden I got it .
Every symptom you mentioned I have with the exception of spotting , so let’s put it this way if I get my period today all my
Symptoms will go away ASAP
What we’re going thru it’s very difficult to deal with .
Are you lactose intolerance?
Are you taking any meds?
Hi Ellie, think of all the women out there who have had IVF, and who are all healthy and fine. Your tests were fine. It’s not like you haven’t been checked for OC. They would’ve seen something especially with all the stuff you had done, hysteroscopy, etc.
If it helps, during my worse time I had very elevated liver enzymes. So much so my doctor talked about a liver biopsy. I was terrified. But in the next week those levels started coming down on their own and have stayed normal now every time I get bloodwork done. Sometimes things like Tylenol or Zantac can show elevated levels. Yours must’ve been only slightly elevated if your doc wasn’t concerned. My friend’s father died from pancreatic cancer and she goes once a year for an MRI and they keep watch on her pancreas. Have you had any mri’s or ct scans that would’ve showed anything going on in there?
It’s always so scary to read things about other people, it does just set the health anxiety in overdrive. If you can’t settle about it, call your doctor and ask to be checked thoroughly. An MRI would show all is ok with everything.
XOXO