So I few months ago I started to notice that the lower part of my abdomin was getting a little bigger and firm. after a year or so of struggling with intestinal issues I chalked it up to constipation and took way too many laxatives( which didnt help the "ball" growing. After about a month of just convincing myself it will go away on its on, my friends started asking if I was pregnant. So off to the drug store I went to get a half a dozen tests. All came back negative. I finally went to my family doctor and as soon as I lifted my shirt she grabbed the fetal dopler because she too was convinced I had to be pregnant. But nope no heart beat heard but my own. She sent me for bloowrok the next morning and reffered me to have an ultrasound done. I didnt know at the time but she tested my CA-125 which I found out later is the "cancer marker" is what I understood. my number came back an 87. A normal number is around 12. So that is obviously freaking me out! I had the ultrasound a few days later and those results came back that it was a dermoid ovarian tumour. but it measures 11cm by 20cm and is still growing which I guess is insanely large. My doctor referred me now to an OBGYN oncology specialist and I will have to have a laparotomy to have the tumour and my left ovary removed. I guess I dont really have a specific question(s). I am just hoping to hear other peoples stories and maybe that will help me get through this. I am of course thinking the worst case scenario and everything I read peoples cysts are much smaller than mine and no one ever mentions cancer so I decided to write my own post.
Thanks!!!
Alexandra