Whent to hospital with ovary pain and they told me it was my bowel!!! I know its my ovary as ive had it be4 but they wnt listen!!!

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[Yazza]

It's shocking that they don't listen as you know your own body better than anyone else! I've had the same problem it could be that the ovary is stuck to the bowel just keep at them they will have to listen be persistent! X

[Sparrow3]

I woke up a couple weeks ago in severe pain, in the morning i phoned NHS24 and they told me it was constipation.....em no! Yazza is right, you know your own body! I went to my GP and she referred me to the hospital. It is so hard to find a Dr who seems genuinely sympathetic these days. Hope you get an answer soon, a real answer! x

[cabbage12]

I feel for you, I know how you feel. I went to hospital with severe pain which every doctor thought was ovulation pain, which i knew it wasn't. turned out to be an appendicitis. Hope they listen to you and you feel better.

[FN75]

I've been there as well - I ended up being carted out of work in an ambulance and on the way there the paramedic told me I had depression! Strangely enough I was crying because I was being carted out of work in an ambulance. She shut up when she discovered my appendix felt wrong in some way but when I got to hospital they did some cursory investigations and discharged me (on the stroke of four hours) with 'mid-cycle pain'.

Oddly, they don't know just how close they came to being right. It turned out I had endometriosis and my appendix was stuck to the inside of my abdominal wall - which I didn't find out until I'd gone through three more doctors who told me I needed a psychiatrist.

Isn't it frightening how you're not trusted to be in genuine pain or know where that pain is coming from? I do wonder how many people roll up at hospitals actually lying about being in pain and wasting everyone's time, because it feels like it's an awful lot from how they've treated some of the people on here!

[Juleyanne]

I have a long history of endo and adhesions. The thing is, endo is often accompanied by scar tissue which adheres to other organs such as sometimes the ovary or bowel or bladder. This scar tissue (adhesions) is like a spiders web in the pelvis and sometimes stomach/bowel/bladder. A glue like substances that pulls and tugs other structures and that can often be the cause of much of the pain. This is very common after pelvic surgery or multiple surgeries. I always noticed mine was worse coming up to menstruation 'ring a bell'! that was because as everything swells ready for menstruation it caused pulling and nerve pain. It hurts like hell when I have a full bladder or bowel, and wakes me at night, forcing me to visit the loo to lessen the pressure. I was told it was probably IBS like many. They later found Diverculitis Disease (out pouching of bowel) during CT scan so not surprising I was in such pain! I am post menopause now and I was told endo slows or stops when oestrogen drops like a stone, when menopause commences. However, mine continued which they know now is scar tissue nerve pain along with my other conditions. Plus, I have found out I now also have osteoarthritis in both hips and knee as it popped. Seeing consultant soon after MRI. All this can happen when oestrogen levels drop as it affects the muscular skeletal post menopause in some. My right hip, pelvis, stomach hurts all the time and I am so stiff and achey with low back pain and bowel problems, it is truly horrible.