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I need advice as I think I have ovarian cancer?
I got my period when I was 13, and have always had severe menstrual cramps. I mean, debilitating. For months now I have had severe pain in my abdomen, even when not on my period. I can't gain any weight, and am 7.9stone at 5foot 7 inches tall. Very recently, I have been extremely fatigued, sleeping for long periods at a time. It has been almost impossible for me to get myself out of bed. I have been getting shooting pains above my right hip, in my ovaries, and throughout my stomach. It now hurts to preform certain positions during sex. I get headaches, bright light hurts my eyes and I sweat. A couple months ago I was coughing up blood, and got a second X-ray done on my lungs after a previous infection left me in permanent pain. I am a smoker, and while it hurts to smoke, the worst of the pain - an excruciating sharp agony which increases upon breathing in, sometimes leaving me led on the floor in fear of aggravating it, for a few minutes or sometimes longer at a time) - happens whenever it wants to regardless. Now I have a very strange pain in the joints which attach the hips to the thighs and which now hurt to walk. I get strange ad random stabbiing and shooting pains anywhere in my body, twitches, and I almost pass out whenever I stand up a little too fast.. I have also been getting lower back pains and a stabbing in my shoulder blade. My mum has polisistic ovaries, and so i thought i might have a cyst, but the doctor dismissed all of my concerns and said I am too young to have ovarian cysts. I have been feeling terribly sick and need to pee SUDDENLY and frequently. I also have haglunds deformity, which while unrelated- I am waiting to be contacted by specialists to discuss my options and the doctors who refered me seemed very dismissive and i dont really want to be up there all the time moaning but I KNOW something is wrong
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It sounds like your doctor is being pretty dismissive. The weight loss alone is worth examining. I'd ask for an MRI of the ovaries.
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