Question:
WLS with cyst on ovaries?

Can you have WLS if you have a cyst on your ovaries?    — EvningStar81 (posted on November 1, 2002)

November 1, 2002
I don't see how one issue has anything to do with the other? Have you been told that you couldn't? Is there more to this question that you could expand on a little? If it is just a plain old ovarian cyst, usually you are given BC pills to shrink them- or they get physically removed. So - if it is removable- it is extremely possible that you could get it removed at the same time you have WLS. Or, are you speaking perhaps of Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome- a condition that symptoms include cysts on your ovaries? If so there are a HUNDRED posts about it in the database. Just type in PCOS. In many cases WLS helps PCOS symptoms......
   — Karen R.

November 1, 2002
Jessica--I was able to have WLS. Although, they were not aware of the cysts before the surgery. Although, my surgeon was aware that I had PCOS. I had my surgery done open. When they got in there, they actually ended up removing a large cyst from one of my ovaries. Hope that helps. Tiffany
   — Tiffany D.

November 2, 2002
About a month before surgery I had been to the ER with severe pain in my lower right side, neither doc found anything wrong. About 30 min. into surgery my surgeon found my right ovary to be twice the normal size and covered in cysts, she came out and spoke with my husband and then removed the ovary, no extra charge!! Finally now a diagnosis, PCOS. I'm glad they could kill 2 birds with one stone!
   — Aimee P.