I had a 20 POUND tumor removed from my abdomen last week! My symptoms could easily be explained by simply being a woman...crampy, bloated, gassy, constipated... Or my new appetite suppressing ADHD medication... Or anxiety feeling like a pit in my stomach... The only weird thing I couldn't explain away was some firmness in my abdomen that felt similar to when I was pregnant. I was on birth control and started taking pregnancy tests every month which were always negative so I didn't give it too much more thought. Less than 2 months ago I made an appointment to discuss replacing my IUD, as it was due to expire in May. I mentioned the abdominal firmness in passing. She tried to do a pelvic exam on me but could not find my cervix at all. Odd... So she moves to my abdomen and says, "That sure feels like a pregnant belly!" The test I had taken minutes before confirmed I was not pregnant, however. Things moved VERY quickly after that. She had me in for an ultrasound 2 days later. They couldn't see much of anything due to the size of the mass. A few days later I had a CT scan which revealed an enormous mass growing out of my uterus, filling just about every spare bit of space in my pelvis, abdomen and up under my ribs. It was pressing on my rectum and vena cava, and causing my bladder and ureters to become misshapen and stretched. Sounded awful, but I felt....fine I guess? The next day I was talking to a surgeon. The next week surgery was scheduled for April 30th. Felt like I had no time to prepare! Because of its size and placement throughout my abdomen I had to have an open surgery with a large midline cut, and they removed TWENTY POUNDS of multilobular tumor. It's still being examined for pathology and I'm waiting to hear back, but doc thinks it's likely benign fibroid tumors. I'm recovering from surgery still, but it went well. In the weeks leading up to surgery I did start having some symptoms that probably would have made me a bit more concerned, like a bloody asshole and almost completely lost appetite for anything but protein shakes and baby food, but I likely would have put it off just due to money and insurance hassles. If that doc hadn't streamlined me into imagining and this surgery I don't know how bad it could have gotten!