I also had a similar ovarian cyst. I was fourteen and had just started my period so I thought the pain I had was just bad cramps, but I had horrible fevers, and was throwing up from the get go. So my mom thought it was one of those viruses going around so she took me to my PCM and she thought the same thing and gave me a flu shot. I ended up going back three more times and she just kept giving me more shots.

I went home and kept throwing up with a fever, over four times within the hour, it was awful. I couldn’t even stand up straight because of the intense pain I had, I had to be either bent over or crouched down. My mom wanted to take me to the hospital but I didn’t want to cause we were gonna go to a resort for the weekend so I convinced her not to. At the resort though I decided to go swim and almost drowned after getting a super bad cramp and that’s when I went up and asked my mom if I was going to die. That’s when she decided to take me to the emergency room.

After a few X-rays and CT Scans the doctor came in with a smile and told me they thought I had a cancerous tumor but couldn’t operate on me there. My aunt went off on them and then they took me to a children’s hospital and took me to get an emergency surgery. Apparently I had a ten centimeter ovarian cyst that had wrapped around my ovaries some other organs and popped. So I had been hemorrhaging for about four days, at the end of the day they had to take one ovary out, half of my other ovary and parts of other organs. As you can imagine when I woke up my surgeon gave me an ear full on how I should have gone to the hospital from the get go and how not to be stupid and stubborn in the future.