There are normal cysts. And there are
monster cysts. Normal cysts have common ovarian cyst symptoms like nausea and
vomiting, ovarian pain, a little bit of abnormal bleeding, increased frequency
of urination, bloating and the likes. But a monster cyst takes ovarian cyst
symptoms to a whole new level.
A 57 year old woman had one of these large
ovarian cysts in her ovaries – 40 KGs (90 pounds) to be exact. And what the
growth did to her body is almost unimaginable. Her case was documented in the
Journal of Medical Case Reports. According to LiveScience, the following are
some of the extreme effects of the presence of the cysts in the female
reproductive system.
Difficult breathing symptom of large ovarian cysts
The ovarian cyst that the woman had was
filled with mucus. This was nothing unusual as mucus-filled cysts are normal.
The only unusual thing about the cystic growth was the fact that it was too
large. This is what caused her to find it difficult to breathe.
According to Dr. Jonathan Herman, who is a an
experienced obstetric surgeon in New York – he works at the Long Island Jewish
Medical Center, the difficulty in breathing symptom occurred mainly because the
cyst had pushed against the woman’s diaphragm.
Therefore, the diaphragm couldn’t work as
it should. It reduced her ability to inhale and exhale air given that the
diaphragm plays one of the most important roles in the breathing process.
The resultant effect of this was that the
woman couldn’t breathe properly. Her breathing was shallow. And every time the
cyst grew larger, less and less oxygen was getting into her body. All this was
caused by an ovarian cyst – one big bad monster cyst.
An increasing waistline symptom
This is actually what helped the woman to
discover the presence of the large cyst in her body. What happened was that she
noticed that she was increasingly gaining weight for no apparent reason. This
happened until she decided that it made no sense.
When she went to the doctor, she found out
that she was right. Her increasing waistline had nothing to do with her diet.
It was all caused by a cystic growth in her reproductive system and the more
the cyst became larger, the more her waistline increased – her weight too since
the cyst was very heavy.
An ultrasound came to her rescue.
Extreme heaviness in the stomach
This is a common symptom of ovarian cyst.
But in this woman, the size of the cyst made it unbearable. According to
LiveScience, by the time the doctors operated on the woman for ovarian cyst
removal, the cyst had squished the contents of her stomach.
You can imagine how horrible it must have
felt to have a 40 KG worth of foreign material in her body. It’s
super-uncomfortable.
Displaced uterus
Well, the cyst was large. It needed the
space. And since the female reproductive system never makes a provision for the
existence of such a large mass, the cyst had to create its own space. It ended
pushing the woman’s uterus out of its normal position.
The story of the woman with a large ovarian cyst continues
Unfortunately for this woman, she had to
worry about more than getting rid of the cyst. The doctors who were treating
her noted that the cyst showed signs of being cancerous. She therefore had to
undergo rounds of chemotherapy in order to deal with the cancer.
Luckily, the cancer was at an early stage.
The cancer treatment worked.
Although she ended up losing her lymph
nodes, fallopian tubes and her uterus, she survived the ordeal. She survived
the monster cyst. And she survived a cancer attack.
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