May need to have my right ovary removed for biopsy? Anyone know how that surgery goes and length of

jane65 said:

Hi,
That blue rose is beautiful, I've never seen on in that color.

I'm wondering why you're having one ovary removed? have you had a hysterectomy with one ovary left so that you wouldn't go into premature menopause?

That was my case in 1983 and unfortunately it developed into OVCA.

I see that you've been a member since 7/08, but you've given us very little info. to base an answer on.

Perhaps you could tell us why you're having this surgery, and what tests led to the decision.

I was cut from navel to pelvis and my recuperation was about a month. I had lymph node involvement.

Good luck and let us know a bit more about your situation so we can be helpful and supportive.
Jane

Hi Jane
That rose is not a real picture. Blue roses are impossible to grow in nature due to the color combos needed to make a blue rose but recently they say they did make on but it's more mauve than true blue. You can get blue roses from florists but they dye them or spray paint them, the dyed ones are much more natural looking and quite beautiful. I loved them ever since I read a Tennessee Williams play called "The Glass Menagerie" where the heroine's nickname to one guy became 'blueroses'.

Well I usually post on the Emotional Support list so that's why you don't know alot about me and also I haven't had a diagnosis of ovarian but things are possibly heading in that direction - I hope not. I am trying to just see what I could possibly link or not to my symptoms and that is why I was asking questions here. I am a 20 year survivor of non hodgkins lymphoma and have been left with many side effects of the treatment. I only had the NHL come back once a year and a half after diagnosis in the late 80ties.

Just recently after doing a scan to track a wayward kidney stone in my bladder the radiologist spotted a 'lesion on my right ovary'. I just had a pelvic ultrasound and my GP called and said that actually its a nodule inside the ovary not on it. It is very very small and can't be diagnosed just like that. My gyno is on holidays but I see her July 10th, so not too long to wait, but my GP said that the radiologist suggested either removing that ovary alone for biopsy or doing the 'wait and see' thing and do the ultrasound over again in 2 or 3 months. My first question to my gyno would be - 'can't they do a needle biopsy of this thing laproscopically', instead of taking the whole ovary but maybe that's not possible. I know nothing about ovarian cancers as I had NHL. I also am experiencing low back pain, like the kind you get before your periods, and my GP said that it wouldn't be coming from that tiny tiny nodule so something else might be up.

Anywho hope those few details help. Blessings, Blueroses.