Doctors agree on symptoms of early ovarian cancer

Emmanuel Goldstein;2470757
As much as we'd like to believe otherwise, women (especially those middle-aged and older) are often viewed as hypochondriacs by their docs when they present with a multitude of 'vague' symptoms.

Emmanuel Goldstein;2470757
Thank you. I suffered for two years with those symptoms, escalating to the point of being nearly completely disabled before my tumor was discovered.

While my doc initially believed something was up, when nothing showed on the first battery of tests he deemed it an "idiopathic syndrome" and then blamed all my subsequent symptoms on this phantom 'syndrome'.

When I started having increasingly severe bladder and urinary symptoms, he again declared it part of the syndrome, but agreed to arrange for a consult. When the office nurse bladder-scanned me, she told me I hadn't emptied. I insisted I had. She showed the screen to the doc who commented "That's not her bladder" and proceeded to to a pelvic on me. When he told me he felt a mass, I was at the same time terrified and immensely relieved. Thank GOD for the urologist who found the tumor--- that man saved my life

You are correct. Many women do present with vague s/s (case in point - the woman presenting with vague MI-like s/s). It takes a very astute healthcare provider to recognize this.

I am so glad you are o.k. now. Thank goodness the consult revealed the problem. (((((HUGS)))) to you!!!!