Woman's 'break up' tummy ache turns out to be ovarian cancer

Woman's 'break up' tummy ache turns out to be ovarian cancer. SWNS

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00:00Because of this lack of appetite and everything, I decided to go to the doctors and they started

00:12to get me checked out. So they ran some blood tests, checked me for any intolerances, they

00:19checked my vitamins and minerals and inflammation as well. It came up that I had inflammation

00:25and I was really low on all my vitamins and minerals, but I didn't have any intolerances,

00:32so I wasn't celiac, I wasn't lactose intolerant. But yeah, these bloods, they were unsure of

00:39why I was low on vitamins and everything like that. So, in the meantime, obviously more

00:47time had passed. Because of the lack of appetite, I started to lose a lot of weight over a short

00:52period of time and yeah, kept going back to the doctors and was just kind of under

01:02investigation, really like trying to figure out what was wrong with me. They then thought

01:09that it could be inflammatory bowel disease, I think it was, and they sent me, referred

01:17me for a colonoscopy. In the meantime, I had gotten a lot worse, the pain was getting

01:25a lot worse as well and I started to feel dizzy all the time, I was getting this really

01:33weird feeling where I'd feel like I was walking into cold water all the time, so I'd get like

01:39a cold water shock that would kind of take my breath away. This really freaked me out,

01:46I was getting heart palpitations as well and it just wasn't pleasant. A couple of weeks

01:54before they found my tumour, I started to get really bloated as well and I started to

02:00feel, when I needed to go to the toilet, my bladder was so painful, which obviously wasn't

02:10a normal thing for me and I needed to get up like three, four times in the night, which

02:15also wasn't normal for me personally. And then also a couple of days before my tumour

02:22was found, I was getting night sweats as well, which then made my mum say, look, we need

02:29to go back to the doctors. So I went back to the doctors, but in the meantime, when

02:35I was at college, I got really severe abdominal pain and it basically caused me to almost

02:43pass out with this pain. College did all the protocols and everything and called 111 and

02:52because it was COVID, it was the first time that anyone had actually felt my tummy to

02:57see if they could feel anything. But the lady felt my tummy and she said that she could

03:05feel a mass in my stomach. So yeah, so then she referred me through to gynaecology and

03:16I had a couple of like ultrasound scans and everything. And yeah, they wanted me to come

03:27back the next day for another scan and they then admitted me into hospital that day. All

03:34in the meantime, like the pain was really bad. Every time I sat down, it was really painful

03:41and yeah, just wasn't pleasant. And yeah, so then I went into hospital, was due to have an MRI scan,

03:52but when I was in hospital, I did start to go a little bit like showing signs of sepsis. So

04:00the consultant wanted to operate on me straight away, which I'm so glad that he did. And they

04:09thought originally that it was a twisting ovarian cyst. So they prepped me for like keyhole surgery,

04:17et cetera, and said that it was going to be like about an hour. And then when they took me in,

04:25they realised that it actually wasn't. It was a tumour and they had to get all the different

04:30teams in, which I'm so grateful for. I'm so grateful for the NHS and all the consultants,

04:37everyone who helped me out on that day and throughout my treatment and everything. But

04:46yeah, so I had the surgery and then they biopsied it and it came through that it was

04:52a cancerous germ cell tumour. So yeah, that's kind of the story of my symptoms.