Back pain, bloating, caused urogynecologist Dr. Jocelyn Fitzgerald to ask for an ultrasound. Her tumor was benign but she hopes women stop ignoring pain.
Then she considered what she would tell one of her patients.
“I was like, ‘I feel like the universe is telling me to get an ultrasound,’ and if I were my patient I would get one,” Fitzgerald, an assistant professor in the obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, told TODAY. “I was like, ‘I just need to put this to rest’ and lo and behold there is, in fact, a mass.”“In the end, trust your body,” she wrote. “Get the ultrasound.
“What bothered me the most, honestly, was sacral pain, like low back pain but like lower than the lumbar region where people traditionally have strained from activity and slipped discs. It was just above my tailbone,” she explained. “I thought, ‘This is odd having pressure in my pelvic that makes my back hurt more. That’s not super normal. But sometimes that will happen.’”“They were like, ‘Don’t ignore your symptoms.’ I had these things.
Being the patient in a room where she has performed surgery felt weird to Dr. Jocelyn Fitzgerald. But her experience will change how she talks to her patients about surgery in the future.So she contacted her gynecologist and asked for an ultrasound. She thought if her symptoms subsided, she’d simply cancel the appointment. But they didn’t and Fitzgerald received the scan. It uncovered a likely source of her pain.
“The mass was 7 centimeters. It was on the big side and it did have some features that showed it needed to come out. They were not reassuring. It was vascular. It was partially solid,” she said. “No one could say, ‘Oh this is definitely benign.’”“They are not screening tools. I want to make that clear. But they do provide clues as to certain disease states that could be present, like ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, other types of ovarian tumors that could potentially be malignant,” she said.
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