Treatment For Ovarian Cysts - How Aggressive Should You Be

By Amanda Clark

The type of treatment for ovarion cysts as recommended by your doctor will has lot to do with how much pain you are experiencing, and whether you are interested in holistic remedies. Different doctors believe in different therapies.

Most doctors choose to treat the pain first and only. Since this is really the major symptom and complaint, it's the easiest one for doctors to deal with first. After your doctor knows for certain that the cyst is not in a dangerous position, he may not want to do much else until it is warranted.

If your doctor elects to perform some tests and discovers that the location could become a serious problem if the cyst ruptures, he will most likely insist on surgery as soon as possible. Otherwise, leaving it in place could give it time to burst and cause peritonitis or even uncontrollable hemorrhaging.

When a cyst is first diagnosed, it is usually because of the pain. Cysts can be palpated and acknowledged in the doctor's office, usually. First course of action of simply over the counter pain killers since most cysts will disappear by themselves in a few months. Cysts are nothing more than a type of internal pimple, and like pimples, they ultimately go away on their own.

When the pain is adversely affecting someone's quality of life to the point she can't function, the doctor will usually prescribe birth control pills. The hormones are thought to have a negative therapeutic effect on the cyst, although in truth, not many patients report much relief.

If the patient finds that prescription pain killers aren't providing much relief, and there are days she is in bed because of the pain or bleeding, the normal course of action is surgery. This is fairly simple laparoscopic day surgery and some doctors will even perform the surgery under local anesthesia.

Complications are few, side effects are minimal, and recovery is less than 48 hours. There is a chance that you would experience some post op bleeding originating at the site of the internal wound, but this is easily controlled - 31802

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