I have missed my monthly period... twice.
I bought a pregnancy test stick last week. Negative.
I bought another one last Wednesday and you can tell by simply looking at the following picture
Still something tells me that there is something wrong "here". So I decided to visit the nearest laboratory.
I wore the oversized jacket that I got from Ateneo and pants that I can easily slip out of. It was a gloomy Friday - my kinda day. It has two of my favorite words: "gloomy" - my favorite type of weather and "Friday" - the day I am reborn weekly. I took a tricycle and plugged my ears with music. When the tricycle stopped in front of the lab, I felt nervous and at the same time fuzzy. I paid my bill and made myself comfy in the monoblock chair closest to the small TV. They were watching Bleach that time. I shut Adele and tried to watch but my mind kept wandering. Old ultrasound results. Maternity dresses. Getting doubly fat. Ugh.
"Ma...Mendoza?" the lab technician called cutting me off from my musings. "Mario Mendoza?" the lab tech repeated. "The frag...?" I thought to myself. "What are the odds?"
I went back to daydreaming but tried not to be too absorbed and then they called my name. I waited for a few minutes then a female lab tech asked me to get in. When the procedure began I was kinda jumpy. Not a good thing when you have something between your legs. "That's your uterus. It's clear." Yep! The PTs were accurate. I am not pregnant. "Okay, so negative talaga. ( it really is negative)". "Hold on. We haven't seen the rest yet." He said. Great! I'm not preggers!
I was watching the monitor until the sonographer froze the screen and talked to me again. "See those grape-like clusters? Your right ovary is polycystic." Cysts...
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| Ultrasound of my Polycystic Right Ovary |
Right ovary measures 3.25 x 12.3 x 1.54 cm with multiple cystic lesion noted which are arranged in the periphery, the widest diameter measures about .54 cm.
Diagnosis:
NORMAL SIZE ANTEVERTED UTERUS WITH SLIGHTLY THICKENED ENDOMETRIUM .
POLYCYSTIC RIGHT OVARY.
NORMAL LEFT OVARY AND CERVIX.
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I couldn't see my face but if I could, I think a little bit of color must have escaped it. He didn't sound serious so I assumed it wasn't all that bad. I walked to the terminal and I can feel my weakening knees.
PCOS or Polycystic Ovary Syndrome isn't curable according to one website but a change in lifestyle might get things back where they should be. Dang...
I went to that lab to see if there's a spark of life in my womb only to find a speck of death in my ovaries. I really hope that the cysts were simply caused by my obesity and nothing more. Maybe I'm overreacting to my situation but still... It makes me worry for my husband and my son. And now you know that the title I chose is ironic.
