Thursday, December 4, 2008

Complex Ovarian Cysts - Are There Alternatives to Surgery?

If you have been reading about complex ovarian cysts the main answer to treating this condition from your doctor and other resources is usually surgical removal, mainly by laparoscopy.

If your complex ovarian cysts do not seem to be shrinking on there own then surgery is usually recommended due to concerns that the cysts could be cancerous.

But aren't there other options available?

I've witnessed friends that have had their fair share of ovarian cysts and saw how painful they can be. One friend had a 7.2 cm cyst that was removed by surgery and she thought that guaranteed her to be cyst free forever ...

Wrong!

Unfortunately, in March this year she developed more ovarian cysts. This time though they were smaller at 4.5cm so her doctor recommended going on the birth control pill to see whether they would shrink on their own. If that didn't work they said that they would perform surgery again.

At this point I told her about the success I was having with natural treatments. She didn't see the point in more surgery if there were other less risky ways to cure her cysts. The surgery she previously had didn't prevent new cysts from growing so she decided that she had nothing to lose in giving natural treatments a try.

The way she saw it was that the doctors were observing her complex ovarian cysts for a month or so to see if they would cure on their own so why not give them a helping hand. That meant she would have more chance to avoid risky surgery.

Complex Ovarian Cyst