This patient only remembered polycystic ovary syndrome and insisted on asking the doctor all sorts of questions, subconsciously trying to avoid facing their condition out of fear.
Ovarian cysts are more frightening than polycystic, not being metabolic diseases, but pathological changes in the ovarian tissue itself, which might be cancer. On an ultrasound, they may appear as one or two large cysts. If they are larger than five centimeters, doctors may highly suspect malignancy.
It's important to be cautious of small hospital ultrasound doctors mistaking functional cysts, which are corpus luteum formed after ovulation, for pathological ovarian cysts. To avoid misdiagnosis, follow your clinician's advice to have an ultrasound a few days after menstruation, avoiding the luteal phase.
