Last summer , while I was vacationing in Greece I received an urgent fax from my husband. A letter came for me suggesting to do a pelvic follow-up as soon as possible, because the CT scan I did in Toronto before my trip, revealed a epithelic lesion on my left ovary. I was in a lot of pain for the last 2 years,and they couldn't discover why until that amazing doctor saw it last year at the emergency department. The gynecologist who saw me in Greece did a vaginal ultrasound and immediately send me for a CA-125 test. Now a year later, I still suffer from exrutiating pain, I'm losing work days, I ended up at the emergency Department where they discovered what it seems to be, but they are not sure, endometrioma....and did again a CA-125 test yesterday. My fear is that if it is ovarian cancer, the CA-125 is not always accurate at the first stage of the cancer and that might be the reason it was below 30 last summer. I went to my gynecologist as soon as I came back to Toronto, told him everything and that I also lost for no reason 15 pounds in a month, and his reaction was you are in early menopause, your hormones are all over the place, that's why you are losing the weight"here take HRT and come and see me again in 3 months". I said to him I can't have hormones
I just had an operation few months ago for breast cancer, and I know I am not the right canditate for HRT please can we do something about my pain and check out the ovary? He said not to listen to the rumors about HRT, to do what he told me and see him again in 3 months. I was shocked, dissapointed and the result is now I am in a waiting list for urgent operation, my family doctor said they are suspecting cancer and I live in agony until I get the results from CA-125 few days from now. I am 46 years old, I have 2 kids, the youngest one is only 11, there is a history of ovarian cancer in my family and I'm afraid that if it is ovarian cancer because of all this delay, that it might have spread outside the ovary, cause I feel totally weak, horribles pains everywhere(lower back, rectum, legs, thighs, pelvic pain, gas, bloated, bleeding and can't even sit anymore. What do you think. Am I right about CA-125 results, not always accurate at the beggining of ovarian cancer? How fast does ovarian cancer progress in a year?
Yours sincerely