They say no news is goods news...but is it really?

It's nearing the end of the day, and I still haven't heard anything from Dr. K.  When I left her office on Thursday, it sounded like today was going to be the latest I would get the results of my CA-125 and the endometrial biopsy.

Normally, I wouldn't be hugely concerned. However, this weekend a civil war broke out in my uterus.  I'm not really sure what's going on, but there has been a great deal of pain starting mid-day Saturday and lasting through the weekend and into today.  The bestie and I named my right ovary Steven Rogers (in honor of the Captain Fascist twist in Captain America), because it's the possibly cancerous one, and we've named the left one Tony Stark (because it's not currently a traitor and trying to kill me).

***THIS IS WHERE THINGS GET GRAPHIC, AND I TALK ABOUT BODILY FUNCTIONS***

It's not just painful.  It's been rather debilitating and no over-the-counter pain reliever/anti-inflammatory has helped.  I've been so bloated that I look pregnant.  I'm pretty sure Captain Fascist burst which would mean no cancer.  And I think that Tony may have also burst or is trying to burst.  Whatever it is, I'm throwing blood clots like crazy, which is something I've done only rarely and never like this.

It's alarming.  I'm alarmed.

I also haven't really been able to comfortably eat solid food since Friday.  I thought maybe I was constipated, because I'm taking double the recommended daily dose of iron (doctor's orders) to help combat the anemia.  But that theory doesn't really fly, because I've been having regular poops.

So, I bought a non-stimulant laxative to see if that would help.  The only thing it's done is increased the frequency of my poops.

I still have the same pain, my belly is still extremely distended, and it's still very uncomfortable when I try to eat solid foods.  I had a damn green tea frappuccino for lunch just so I could get some calories in me today.  That, at least, hasn't bothered me.

***TMI GRAPHIC TALK ENDS HERE***

I'm wondering if everything is just so swollen and inflamed, because my poor broken baby maker has been abused and invaded by medical equipment on numerous occasiona for the last month.  It could be that's inflamed enough that it's compressing my digestive system enough to make eating uncomfortable.  I don't know,  ut I need it to calm down.

What I do know is that I haven't had a cycle like this in a very, very long time.  I don't like it.  It's scary, and it makes me worried that something is really wrong in there.  And it sucks not to have any answers.  I'm frustrated and scared, and I really just want this all to be over with.

I've called Dr. K just to touch base and get her thoughts on what's been going on since I last saw her.  I haven't heard from her yet, but she is a busy, busy lady.  I will post against when I have results/have some idea of what the hell is going on in there.

Not out of the woods, yet...

In the grand old fashion of counting my chickens before they've hatched, I assumed that if I were suffering from anything too serious, I would probably be dead already.  Unfortunately, I may have been wrong.

I had another appointment with Dr. K for my Well Woman visit.  While I was there, we discussed the results of my ultrasound.  She said my uterus, for the most part looked normal, with the exception of a thickened lining.  Knowing this, she decided to go ahead and get an endometrial biopsy.

While the uterus looked okay (just okay, not great), my ovaries were a different story.  On the left, I have a 3cm cyst that is completely normal.  On the right, I have 3.4cm abnormal growth.  It could be a benign hemorrhagic cyst, meaning it's full of blood.  Or, it could be malignant.  Dr. K has ordered a CA-125 to check for ovarian cancer, and I should have the results Tuesday.

Dr. K thinks it's just a hemorrhagic cyst, but with my family history of ovarian cancer, we have to be sure.  Since a cloae family member had ovarian cancer, she says there is a very real possibility that it could be malignant, and I need to be prepared for the possibility that the ovary will need to be removed.  

She also believes I am in premature ovarian failure, and that I have been for quite sometime. This means I'm not producing enough estrogen.  She wants to understand why my hormones are so low and why I am barely producing any testosterone or luteinizing hormon, which is why she has referred me to an endocrinologist. Unfortunately, there are no endocrinologists in this godforsaken state that are taking patients before November 1st, so we won't be able to figure that out anytime in the near future.

But hey!  In six weeks, I get to have another trans-vaginal ultrasound.  You know...because that last one wasn't traumatizing enough.  I'm really getting tired of people poking around in my lady parts.  I just want this to be over with.  Everything hurts.  It feels like someone has taking a lemon zester to my insides.  I'm tired and sore, and if we're being honest, I just wish my lady parts would fall off, and I could be just blank.  Like a Barbie doll.  When Dr. K offers the option to charbroil my uterus.  I am going to say, "Fire cannot harm a dragon," and sign the paperwork in the blood of my enemies.

I'll post again when I get the results of the biopsy and the CA-125.