Comments on: OVCA news http://www.spikeharris.com/somethingevil/2005/08/ovca-news/ Spike's Fight with Ovarian Cancer Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:28:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: cancerbaby http://www.spikeharris.com/somethingevil/2005/08/ovca-news/#comment-643 cancerbaby Tue, 23 Aug 2005 05:20:49 +0000 http://www.spikeharris.com/somethingevil/2005/08/ovca-news/#comment-643 Uh, yah. Goddamn story of my life. I wanna know, though, what the study authors suggest when -- several months prior to your cancer diagnosis -- your gastroenterologist misdiagnoses you with Crohn's disease, then tells you when you call him up and say that you feel something hard in your abdomen, "don't worry, that's just your Crohn's." Uh, yah. Goddamn story of my life. I wanna know, though, what the study authors suggest when — several months prior to your cancer diagnosis — your gastroenterologist misdiagnoses you with Crohn’s disease, then tells you when you call him up and say that you feel something hard in your abdomen, “don’t worry, that’s just your Crohn’s.”

]]> By: Louise http://www.spikeharris.com/somethingevil/2005/08/ovca-news/#comment-644 Louise Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:55:57 +0000 http://www.spikeharris.com/somethingevil/2005/08/ovca-news/#comment-644 I visited my doctor in August because of dizziness which was chalked up to being related to my venture into veganism. My doctor asked why I had cut eggs and dairy out, and I mentioned I'd been having gas and bloating that I thought might be related to a slight milk allergy. A couple months later when I went for my pelvic, she didn't ask if I still had those symptoms. Of course, I also didn't tell her that it hurt when she pressed on my ovaries (amongst a variety of other aches and pains). Even if I had told her, it is unlikely that anyone would have ever thought "ovarian cancer." You just don't get that at 22. But I also didn't know that it was not normal to have pain like I did. I mean, it isn't like it was unbearable or debilitating (at least, it was never debilitating for more than a couple minutes, god I am an idiot), so I never thought of mentioning it. But, yeah. These articles that are coming out only verify what I already knew from talking to other ovarian cancer patients - a good percentage of us had symptoms months, if not years, before our diagnosis. I visited my doctor in August because of dizziness which was chalked up to being related to my venture into veganism. My doctor asked why I had cut eggs and dairy out, and I mentioned I’d been having gas and bloating that I thought might be related to a slight milk allergy. A couple months later when I went for my pelvic, she didn’t ask if I still had those symptoms. Of course, I also didn’t tell her that it hurt when she pressed on my ovaries (amongst a variety of other aches and pains). Even if I had told her, it is unlikely that anyone would have ever thought “ovarian cancer.” You just don’t get that at 22. But I also didn’t know that it was not normal to have pain like I did. I mean, it isn’t like it was unbearable or debilitating (at least, it was never debilitating for more than a couple minutes, god I am an idiot), so I never thought of mentioning it.

But, yeah. These articles that are coming out only verify what I already knew from talking to other ovarian cancer patients - a good percentage of us had symptoms months, if not years, before our diagnosis.

]]> By: Dee-Dee http://www.spikeharris.com/somethingevil/2005/08/ovca-news/#comment-645 Dee-Dee Wed, 24 Aug 2005 04:23:16 +0000 http://www.spikeharris.com/somethingevil/2005/08/ovca-news/#comment-645 Something needs to change... Mom went from doctor to doctor for an entire year- all the while telling them she thought it was ovarian cancer. (She held her cousin's hand as she died from the disease) No one would listen until it was too late. Something needs to change… Mom went from doctor to doctor for an entire year- all the while telling them she thought it was ovarian cancer. (She held her cousin’s hand as she died from the disease) No one would listen until it was too late.

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