New cysts grown!!

[emmieoaks]

Hi Girls, hope you are all well!?

To cut a long story short,

I had a big op just before Xmas to remove large cysts from both ovaries and endo and some other bits done!

But just been told new cysts have grown back again on both ovaries. I would like to know if anyone has had this and what to expect the doctors to suggest next!!

Thanx xx

[Impatient]

yes..they can burst and refill up, or they can be removed and new ones grow.

Each month you will get a cyst or two anyway, from a developing egg, which is supposed to break out or burst out on its merry way to its nearest fallopian tube. The cyst sac and contents is then supposed to be re-absorbed by the body, but as you get older and with endo and adhesions and mirena coils etc there is higher risk that these burst little cysts heal over and keep on filling up. Either with clear liquid which is normal or with endo blood which is what forms endometriomas or blood filled cysts. They appear differently on ultrsound scans.

There is a 3rd type which is clear liquid with bits in it,these are called complex cysts and are the ones to watch out for as potentially being more sinister, but if you have endo, chances are they're just endo mixed with clear.

They will probably monitor them as they can disppear by themselves.

If they get bove 4cm and are troubling you, or are looking suspect then it's back to the operating table in due course.

If they're not troubling you much or you can cope with them, then it's a waiting game to keep monitoring them and see how you get on.

I had an 8cm one I knew nothing about, didn't cause me any problems at all.

I had a much smaller devil that burst, refilled and grew rapidly to 6cm in 5 weeks. Both were complex cysts.

So I had big hole op to remove them and lots of other things done at the same time.

Then had a cyst grow and explode in November last year, and I'm fairly certain it has refilled again too. Still awaiting a scan on that one, but the pains from it are annoying but not excrutiating. I am coping, and hoping it will go by itself.

[Noorri]

Hi

Me too got a big laparotomy in April last year and two months after the ops, the cyst returned and the size is 3cms. I was put on zoladex for five month and my last scan in January showed it was there. I have my next appointment in a few weeks just hoping they cyst is gone

[daisy2013]

This is really informative for me, I think I may of had the same, I had been suffering from pain and I had an ultrasound and I had a sac which they said could be a foetus, after a negative pregnancy test I was informed it must be fluid or a cyst.i haven't been given anymore follow up from this or any investigations. So these sacs are they caused from endometriosis? Is this common. I have endometriosis and haven't been able to get pregnant in 3 and half years of trying. What causes these cysts to grow, is it hormones?

[purpleburple]

Yes cysts do keep re-occurring. I've had two separate laps to remove 2. Each time they appeared on my left ovary. I finally had my left ovary removed last September in a bid to stop having surgery each year to remove cysts! I'm hoping this has solved the problem but am still getting endo pain on that side. Possibly from adhesions from the surgeries aswell.

I was lucky in that I was 44 when I had my ovary removed and had completed my family. I don't know your circumstances but you might not want to do this yet?

If you're getting pain from the cysts, make sure you see someone about decent pain relief.

HTH

[emmieoaks]

Thanks for replying girls.

It is nice to know i'm not on my own. My partner is really supportive, but they don't really understand! Xx