Originally Posted by catra121

Thanks everyone. Still having a rough time...hoping the visit with the dr goes well on Monday. This extra pain is really taking a toll on me...

Originally Posted by catra121

Sometimes I just feel like I can't catch a break. My biggest fear with my pregnancy last year was that I would need a c section and then have spread of my rsd internally to my abdomen...and that's exactly what happened. But I've been doing pretty well dealing with the extra pain...all I have to do is look at my beautiful smiley happy baby and it's all worth it.

Monday night at work I started to get really bad pain in my abdomen...much more severe than the RSD pain usually is and different pain...stabbing instead of burning. I almost went straight to the ER on my way home from work but talked myself out of it thinking it was probably just a flare up. Next day I start bleeding but it stops quickly so I hold off on going to the dr. Wednesday morning I have more bleeding so I go to the dr for walk in hours. Basically...they give me antibiotics and tell me if any more bleeding or worse pain to go to the ER because they will be able to do the imaging and get results right away. So yesterday I start bleeding again at work so at the end of my shift I go to the ER (its 11pm at this point).

Yeah...they find a 4.5 cm ovarian cyst that is causing this pain. Good news is that the cyst is probably nothing to worry about and will go away on its own (still have to folww q1qlow up on it though). Bad news is...its incredibly painful. They gave me two doses of morphine at the hospital. I have to say...I don't take anything for my RSD pain because nothing helps so I usually don't take pain meds even at the hospital when they offer...but the nurse and dr sort of insisted I take something (this was before they even did any tests) so I gave in. Holy cow...I did not realize how bad the pain had gotten from this cyst until the pain went away. My RSD pain was still there...but just having the stabbing pain go away was such a huge relief. They gave me a script for Norco anD I'm taking it...I just can't deal with the extra pain anymore on top of the RSD.

But seriously...an ovarian cyst? WHY am I such a wreck? I have the next few days off of work and I'm just going to rest. I follow up with the OB dr Monday...hopefully things just improve on their own and this really is just nothing except a painful little blip in my life. But...ugh!!

Just needed a little vent...

Originally Posted by catra121

I've definitely thought about the mommy and me swim classes when she's a little older. So far she seems like a little water baby...loves her baths...so I think that would be fun and also good for me. I can't wait for the warm weather so we can try one of those shaded baby pools in the yard.

Having the little one is such a blessing...but it's SO HARD when I feel like I can't hold her as much as I want or play with her as much as I want...especially with this new stuff going on. I'm sure the week will go by quickly...but it already feels like it's taking forever.

Originally Posted by Littlepaw

Hi Catra,

Glad that's over with, now you can just recover! The rupture may actually be some weirdly good news. I have had cysts that resolved on their own and I had one years ago that ruptured. There is definitely a difference in the pain! It was intensely, intensely painful with the rupture. Your pain level with a regular cyst seemed kinda high, but I thought maybe it was the CRPS or central sensitivity making it worse. The fact that CRPS was NOT making an acute pain incidence overly high seems like good news as far as your nervous system is concerned. The other good news. Rupture is rare, I never had one do that again. You will heal beautifully over your week of hooky and hopefully this will be then end of it. No needle aspiration or going on for months and months, yeah!

Enjoy that baby this week! I am sending Healing Love, Littlepaw