Ovarian Cyst Pain - The Natural and Holistic Way To Eliminating The Excruciating Pain of Ovarian Cyst

Ever wondered what causes the intense and often times unbearable pain of ovarian cysts? This article will look briefly at what ovarian cysts are, how they are formed, but most importantly what you must do, to avoid the risk of losing your one or both of your ovaries.  

What is an ovarian cyst? An ovarian cyst is a sac, sometimes called a follicle that contains fluids or semi solid materials which develop in the ovary. They are very similar to blisters and most cysts form as a result of the normal monthly ovulation process.

Ovarian cysts, tend to be more common in women during their child bearing years. But it is possible for a woman who as passed menopause to develop ovarian cysts.

There are many types of cysts depending on how they are formed. The most common ones are called functional cysts and are formed as a result of a woman's normal ovulation process.

Every month as part of your reproductive cycle, one of your ovaries produces an egg.  This egg is housed in a shell called a follicle in the ovary. Once this follicle matures, it releases the egg which burst out of the ovary and travels down the fallopian tube to the uterus in readiness for pregnancy.

The empty shell that once housed the egg in the ovary, now called the corpus luteum then dissolves away naturally if pregnancy does not occur.

Sometimes due to an imbalance of hormones in the woman’s body, instead of the follicle rupturing and releasing the egg it holds on to it and starts to get bigger.  It may eventually get so big that it collapses on itself causing the woman a great deal of pain.

The other more common type of cyst is the corpus luteum cyst. This forms when instead of the shell (corpus luteum), after releasing the egg, dissolving away naturally, closes up on itself retaining all its contents and again starts to grow.

What causes the ovarian cyst pain? The pain you get from cysts arise because:

1.    The cyst ruptures i.e. bursts

2.    The cyst is growing rapidly and stretching

3.    There is bleeding into the cyst from tiny boold vessels.

4.    The cyst twists on itself, cutting off its own blood supply

Effects of using the conventional treatment On ovarian cysts.

The conventional treatment for ovarian cysts is the use birth control pills and eventually surgery; unfortunately both remedies do not address the root cause of your ovarian cysts and the cyst is likley to reoccur.

Many women have reported developing cysts on the other ovary after been through one surgery to remove a cyst from one ovary.

Unfortunately, some women have lost both ovaries as a result of developing ovarian cyst on both ovaries but you do not have to suffer the same fate.

The other treatment for ovarian cysts is the use of birth control pills but prolonged and extensive use of contraceptive pills to stop you ovulating has been known to cause infertility.