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[WatsonH13]

Hi all
First time posting and hoping for some advice.
I have been diagnosed with ovarian cysts and I have to wait a few months before I have another scan.
In the meantime I am having infrequent, very small bleeds - but my periods had stopped for 15 months. The pain I get is disproportionate to the bleed - full on hot water bottle, paracetamol, bed, when I only really need a panty liner! I get sharp stabbing pains where my cyst is.
I am very emotional and feel low - no interest in anything, no energy to do anything. I am on full-fat HRT - 2 progesterone tablets and 4 pumps of oestrogen gel per day.
Is this normal? Anyone else feel like this?
Please let me know....
Thanks
Helen

[CLKD]

Morning Helen,    How long have U been on an HRT regime?

R U able to take an appt if someone cancels, if so ring the dept to let them know.  Unless there's a reason for the gaps between scans?

As for pain: I would be phoning the Surgery and telling them that symptoms are unbearable and impacting on daily life. 

Hopefully some1 will be along with more knowledge.

[Dierdre]

I had occasional ovarian cysts in peri menopause, I wasn't on HRT but still got them so don't think that makes much difference. I'd stop having periods while I had the cyst then when it burst, usually after about 2 to 3 months, a very heavy period would start and then back to normal. They were painful, I remember the sharp stabbing pain. I would have monitoring scans but never intervention, the largest I had was 5cm so probably not that big. It did make me feel very anxious when it happened and affected my every day life mainly because of the anxiety. I was told they are common and usually resolve on their own which helped. I found taking Ibuprofen helped better than paracetomel.