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Originally Posted by w1ngzer0
It started with a cyst and an inflamed liver. She has stopped taking birth control for 3 months before this. Are cysts a form of withdrawal? She was disabled for 2 weeks because of the pain.
Anyway, the doctor gave her antibiotics and new type of birth control the inflammation went away, but the pain was still slightly there. Things were better for a couple months.... until she realized she hasn't had period for that period. Started by going off of it again or whatever you ladies do to start the period and she has light bleeding goes on for 2 weeks....and the pain returns.
What the hell! Someone help me figure out what is going on. I don't want someone to happen to my wife where she is disabled or worse, dead.
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Where is the cyst? On her liver? Or in her reproductive organs?
Your post wasn't too clear.
There are many icky and annoying things that happen to women's reproductive organs during their child-bearing years, but few of them are disabling or life threatening. Most of them are more along the lines of "nuisance" problems.
Basically, if the word "cancer" hasn't been used, your wife's problem is almost undoubtedly not serious.
And if the doc thought her "cyst" might be malignant, it would've already been removed and biopsied.
Cysts/ polyps/ fibroids and other non-cancerous growths can develop in women's ovaries, on their cervixes, and in their uteruses. None of this is uncommon, and none of it is life-threatening.
Typically, doctors will not even bother to remove such growths unless they are causing annoying symptoms such as heavy bleeding, pain, or infertility.
Women's bodies are a mystery, even to women themselves.
But do keep in mind, the main reason your wife's gynecological problems are unlikely to be life-threatening is that doctors can easily remove
all of her internal reproductive organs if need be, in a very common and safe procedure called a hysterectomy. Many women have this done, especially once their child-bearing years are over.
A woman doesn't need a uterus anymore, once she's done having babies. Nor does she need ovaries, once she reaches menopause and no longer ovulates.
I'm sure your wife will be fine. There are
many gynocological problems that commonly afflict women, but very
few of them are serious and none except cancer are even remotely life-threatening, as far as I know.
And if it was cancer, the doctor would have told you. He'd already be treating it.
So don't worry, be happy!