{"id":130359,"date":"2023-09-18T21:07:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T21:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/?p=130359"},"modified":"2023-09-18T21:07:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T21:07:59","slug":"my-intermittent-stomach-pain-turned-out-to-be-cancer-i-couldnt-stop-crying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/lifestyle\/my-intermittent-stomach-pain-turned-out-to-be-cancer-i-couldnt-stop-crying\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My intermittent stomach pain turned out to be cancer – I couldnt stop crying"},"content":{"rendered":"

What are the signs of ovarian cancer?<\/h3>\n

At 22, Chloe Spitalnic would hang out with her friends and planned to finish a Master’s degree, then a cancer diagnosis turned her world upside down.<\/p>\n

Already lactose and fructose intolerant, Chloe didn’t think much of it when her stomach started to ache.<\/p>\n

Over the next five days, in 2020, the student experienced intermittent stomach pain.<\/p>\n

Chloe thought it was nothing more than a reaction to what she had been eating, but then the stomach pain became particularly painful.<\/p>\n

“I complained to my family about it,” Chloe said. “It turned into quite a sharp pain, and it even hurt to breathe or move around.”<\/p>\n

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Concerned, her mum and sister urged Chloe to book a doctor’s appointment, so she did.<\/p>\n

At the height of the Covid pandemic in Victoria, Melbourne, Chloe first had a telephone consultation.<\/p>\n

A face-to-face consultation soon followed, whereby the doctor referred Chloe for an ultrasound.<\/p>\n

On August 12, Chloe received a shocking call from the doctor about her ultrasound results.<\/p>\n

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“When she called, she asked if anyone was with me,” Chloe told FEMAIL. “My dad was in the other room, but I still didn’t think it was anything major.”<\/p>\n

Chloe, now 25, said: “I remember lying in bed with my phone on speaker. She told me I had three large cysts on my ovary, which they believed were cancerous.<\/p>\n

“I started sobbing instantly. I went to my dad and handed him the phone to talk to the doctor.”<\/p>\n

Her dad hung the phone up in disbelief and was determined Chloe was going to get a second medical opinion.<\/p>\n

“I couldn’t stop crying and freaked out,” Chloe remembered. “I instantly feared for my life.”<\/p>\n

Chloe received an official diagnosis of stage three ovarian cancer, which required invasive surgery to be treated.<\/p>\n

While still studying, Chloe underwent months of chemotherapy, which she found “exhausting”.<\/p>\n

Now Chloe takes a daily tablet to help prevent the cancer from recurring and has check-ups every three months.<\/p>\n

The main symptoms of ovarian cancer are listed by the NHS as:<\/p>\n