Had the MRI

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I managed to have the pelvic MRI today. The report won't be ready till

48 hrs...but a preliminary report will be available tmw. I feel

nervous, scared and excited. I sure hope the " ovarian mass " turns out

to be something benign, a cyst or fibroid... and I'm excited because I

have decided that what I want to do if i get a green light, is to lose

weight - 30 lbs - over the next three months....AT THE SAME TIME I want

to shrink these suckers either with Lupron or shark cartilidge or UAE.

Then if I still need to have surgery I can do it and have a much easier

time, smaller incision, etc. My mother is getting remarried January 29

and I want to go home for the wedding. So, with 30 lbs off and three

months of Lupron I can go home and then have surgery In February. I

really like this plan. I had not wanted to consider Lupron but if it

is either that or get disfigured with a huge vertical incision which

cuts thru my muscles and have a risky bloody surgery....Lupron is

starting to sound pretty good. I just wish I could afford the shark

cartilidge...I spoke to a Gyn who was in the book " Sharks Don't Get

Cancer " and he said he has seen this shrink fibroids significantly but

they will grow back quickly once you stop taking it. I have arthritis,

and taking Shark Cartilidge would possibly help this too....but I'd

need about $1,000 for the Shark Cartilidge...you have to take 2 grams a

day for every lbs you weigh and I am 205 right now. It is incredibly

expensive. Maybe I can borrow the money or raise it somehow. Or maybe

my insurance company would pay for it - it would be way cheaper than

Lupron. I'll post the results of the MRI when I get them. Jeannie

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Jeannie,

Hope the results of your MRI are good. I know how you feel. I just had

surgery for an ovarian mass that turned out to be a large cyst caused by

endometriosis. My surgery was done abdominally because of the size of the

cyst and the fact that the doctor (a gyn/oncologist) couldn't totally rule

out the possibilty of cancer. This was the first time I had ever had

surgery and I was scared, but it wasn't as bad as I feared. I had the

surgery Friday, was home Sunday morning and I feel fine, except for being a

little sore.

Be sure you have a doctor who's willing to work with you. The first doctor

I saw (a regular gyn) terrified me with the possibility of ovarian cancer,

then scheduled me for a total hysterectomy before she even gave me the

results of the

CA-125. She wanted to take everything out, regardless of what they found.

Thanks to what I'd learned from this list, I got a second opinion from the

gyn/oncologist who said he would only remove what was necessary. They did

remove the left ovary but that was it. They also stitched the incision to

make the scar as small as possible and I really don't think it's going to

be very noticable. I was surprised that it was endometriosis because I

hadn't really noticed any of the symptoms (other than heavy periods), but

very relieved that it wasn't cancer. I hope you can avoid the surgery

altogether, but if you have to have it, having a doctor who's willing to

listen to you can make a huge difference. Let me know how things go.