Hi
2 weeks ago I had a transvaginal scan to help find out the reason for long term irregular periods (they've been irregular basically since I started them, just over 10 years)
In the scan they saw my left ovary had many cysts and the right one had one that could possibly be a chocolate cyst/endometrioma. I'll have another scan to check it after about a month.
I have health anxiety generally and this has just kicked it off big time. My fear is cancer. I'm not really that scared of being diagnosed with endometriosis (it's something I've thought I possibly had for a while) but I'm just so nervous it could be something life threatening.
I talked to 2 doctors since the scan and they both reassured me that cysts are very common and they deal with stuff like this all the time. One of them mentioned that the cyst that they think could *possibly* be an endometrioma was about 3mm and he said that they probably wouldn't even perform a surgery on one that size.
I'm also extra nervous because recently I had a little bleeding outside of my period (it was 2 weeks after my last period, so I tried to think "it's just normal bleeding" but it's hard for me to think that way - especially since my periods are almost always so irregular and don't usually happen monthly, more like every few months)
So, has anyone else had a endometrioma or possibly had one? Is it normal that they will rescan me after a month or so? And if it was cancerous, would they have seen something in the transvaginal scan that would have prompted them to do more tests more quickly?