u/NeedleworkerCivil534

Hello, I have joined because I’m not sure where else to post. I appreciate any of you reading this and offering input if you have any. The ovarian cyst sub mods are ignoring my request to join and the PCOS sub told me my concerns don’t belong there either. My 24 year old daughter has been diagnosed by ultrasound with an 18.5x14x9cm complex ovarian cyst with septations that the radiologist stated is “not definitely benign”. Her symptoms for about a year-ish have been bloating, intermittent constipation, and more recently a feeling sometimes of nausea during and right after a bowel movement. No abdominal pain otherwise, just some pain at times in her thighs when she has to sit too long at her desk. Some months her period is a little heavier than others but nothing alarming. She is on a birth control ring and has been for probably 8 years. She had the US last Monday and saw her gyno yesterday to discuss. Gyno sent her immediately for tumor marker tests and ordered an MRI and my daughter will be reconvening with her late this month provided she can get the MRI scheduled before then to discuss the surgery plan. So far the CA 125 has come back at 26 and the HCG <3 so that’s good. Her lymphocytes and absolute lymphocytes are elevated, but not by much and the rest of the CBC with diff was normal. Her gyno said if the MRI and tumor markers come back concerning she will be referring her to gyn-oncology at Duke but also would be giving her the choice to be referred to them regardless due to what she described as their more rigorous pathology protocols. She did warn my daughter that gyn-onc surgeons are less likely to prioritize saving an ovary, however. This was quite upsetting to my daughter as she very much wants to have a baby. My inclination would be to say screw that left ovary, let’s take it out if it could be hiding cancer, but that’s not my decision to make for her. Has anyone here had a mass at or near this size removed with their ovary spared? And has anyone still been found to have cancer despite all tumor markers being normal?

I had not lost any weight in about a year on Wegovy 2.4 but was maintaining my 45-50 lbs loss. Have any of you who switched to Tirz after a long stall on sema and seen good results? I want to lose 10 to 15 more pounds. Thanks for reading!

I had not lost any weight in about a year on Wegovy 2.4 but was maintaining my 45-50 lbs loss. Have any of you who switched to Tirz after a long stall on sema seen good results? I want to lose 10 to 15 more pounds. Thanks for reading!

Do not trust the seemingly real time updates to the Wrightsville Beach website parking map. I arrived at 8:20AM at the lot that I had been watching slowly creep up to 58% occupancy to find it full and 10 cars in front of me waiting for someone to leave. I sat there for 20 minutes and now I’m on the way to Carolina Beach to see if thete by some miracle is any spaces there.

I’m sure I’m worrying too much, but I’m concerned about my adult autistic son going through security in the Cancun airport when we land there this weekend. He wears an insulin pump and will be carrying insulin, infusion sets and syringes with needles in his personal item bag. He takes a controlled substance medication as well. I got both his endocrinologist and his psychiatrist to write letters asking that he be permitted to travel with these items. I printed the letters and then used my translation app on my phone to take pictures of each letter and translate it into Spanish which I printed and stapled to the original letters. He can’t go through a full body scanner with the pump on, and the pump cannot be sent through the xray machine if it is detached from his body as both of these can cause it to malfunction. A regular metal detector is ok. Is security easy to navigate with the pump or can we expect them to give us a hard time? My fear is that they will use it as an excuse to pull him away from us to search him, and that this will upset him. He is low to moderate support needs autism, so it would not be obvious to them that he has it. None of us speak Spanish.