After having surgery, Siobhan feels 'amazing'.
Caption: People thought I was pregnant but it was a 40cm cyst ? I feel amazing after16 litres of fluid was drained
A woman who lived with a 40cm cyst which weighed 2.5st says it was so big, strangers assumed she was pregnant.before tests revealed she had a cyst a month later.Siobhan, from Nottingham, began experiencing abdominal pain in March 2022. She says: ‘It was excruciating. I was very large, and I struggled with breathing.’
She had an emergency appointment where medics suggested she may have a cyst. A scan confirmed this, and blood tests and an MRI a month later also confirmed that the cyst was not cancerous. Siobhan needed surgery to remove it, but had to wait 11 months due to long NHS waiting times – in the months that followed the cyst, which was on the broad ligament of the uterus, continued to grow.It left her struggling to walk and unable to continue working in childcare.‘People were thinking – “she’s pregnant”. I was very self-conscious,’ she says.
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