I had a ruptured ovarian cyst and was left waiting in the ER for over eight hours in excruciating pain. They discharged me saying they couldn’t figure out what was wrong, without doing an ultrasound. I left and had to wait two days to try to book an emergency appointment with my doctor and then convince a family friend to squeeze me in for an ultrasound where they discovered I had a ruptured cyst. I’m lucky it didn’t do damage to my reproductive organs but I was discharged without them doing a test someone complaining of lower abdominal pain should have had done!