but an emotional mess. I am beginnig to feel a bit overwhelmed. I think it is sinking in what is to come and I am getting nervous, and scared and even edgy. I do not want to be all over the place like this emotionally, but whoah! this is serious. I hope it is a simple process. One of my good friends (Leah) came with me to the Dr's appointment where they said what was really going on and she took some great notes. This is basically what the doctor's said and how the consultation went after he did an ultrasound, which was (I want these notes for future reference):
It looks like a big endometrioma (the fuzzy-looking cyst on the ultrasound) by your left ovary, which could mean endometriosis. The cyst could weigh down your ovary and cause torsion, which is extremely painful and requires immediate surgery - torsion is when the cyst is at least 6cm and twists on itself.
You have three options:
1. Do nothing and see if it goes away (if perchance it is not an endometrioma).
2. Take birth control pills, which suppress the ovaries.
3. Undergo surgery, if the supposed endometrioma does not resolve on itself (or if you think it won't).
It's an outpatient surgery called a laraposcopy or laparoscopy (?) - a small incision below the belly button going down as far as they need to go to get out the whole cyst. Possible chance they will also have to remove the left ovary - don't remember why, might be if the cyst has gotten in there or damaged it or is not possible to remove without also removing the ovary.
Questions asked:
1. Will this make you ovulate half as much, with 1 less ovary? No, your one remaining ovary will work double time and pick up the slack from the missing ovary. You will still release an egg every month; just always from the same side. This may make you go into menopause earlier because your ovary can only do so much work in its lifetime, and will run out of time earlier.
2. The surgery requires a general anasthetic, which will completely knock you out. Kimani can be with you before and after the surgery. Recovery will technically take three weeks (and then you can go back to work - haha), though you'll really only be off your feet for a few days.
3. Will there be scar tissue? Yes, but that is always a factor with any surgery and it should not be a problem with future pregnancies. I'm assuming the scar tissue would be not more of an issue than with a c-section.
