What are the symptoms of ovarian cysts?

What is an ovarian cyst? What are the symptoms?

If you want to detect ovarian cysts early, you need to understand the symptoms of this disease. Ovarian cysts have no obvious clinical manifestations in the early stage, and patients are often discovered during gynecological examinations when they seek medical treatment for other diseases. Later, as the tumor grows, the patient will feel it, and the symptoms and signs vary depending on the nature, size, development, and presence or absence of secondary degeneration or complications of the tumor. If you want to detect ovarian cysts early, you need to understand the symptoms of this disease.

1. Increased abdominal circumference and abdominal mass. This is the most common phenomenon in patients. After suffering from ovarian cysts, patients will feel discomfort in the lower abdomen and feel that the waist is thickening. Lower abdominal discomfort is the initial symptom before the patient touches the lower abdominal mass. Due to the weight of the tumor itself and the influence of intestinal peristalsis and body position changes, the tumor moves in the pelvic cavity, involving its pedicle and pelvic funnel ligament, so that the patient has a feeling of distension and falling in the lower abdomen or iliac fossa. Increased abdominal circumference and abdominal mass are the most common phenomena in the main complaint. Patients only notice the enlargement of their abdomen when they realize that their clothes or belts seem tight.

2. Menstrual disorders. Generally, ovarian cysts, even bilateral ovarian cysts, do not destroy all normal ovarian tissues, so they usually do not cause menstrual disorders. Some uterine bleeding is not endocrine, or it is caused by ovarian tumors that change the distribution of pelvic blood vessels, causing endometrial congestion; or it is caused by ovarian malignant tumors that directly metastasize to the endometrium. Menstrual disorders caused by endocrine tumors are often combined with other secretory effects.