What to do if you have ovarian cysts during pregnancy

When pregnant, women must pay attention to their personal health issues, because it is not suitable to take medicine when sick during this period, so as to avoid the adverse effects of the medicine on the baby in the belly. Therefore, if you have ovarian cysts just after you become pregnant, you must be extra careful when choosing the treatment method to avoid affecting the healthy growth of the child. Therefore, different methods must be used to relieve ovarian cysts during pregnancy.

What to do if you have ovarian cysts during pregnancy?

1. After discovering an ovarian cyst, there should be enough time to observe, usually until the 12th week of pregnancy, because corpus luteum cysts may also be present after pregnancy, and the corpus luteum cysts will shrink or even disappear on their own as the pregnancy continues.

2. If a benign cyst appears during pregnancy and is accompanied by bleeding, pedicle torsion, rupture, or is suspected to be malignant, surgical treatment should be actively performed at any stage of pregnancy to avoid delaying the disease.

3. Ovarian cyst surgery should not be performed before 12 weeks of pregnancy, because the placenta has not yet formed before 12 weeks of pregnancy, and cannot produce enough progesterone to maintain embryonic development. It can only rely on the progesterone produced by the corpus luteum of pregnancy to maintain it. Surgery will destroy the role of the corpus luteum of pregnancy in promoting embryo survival and cause miscarriage. After 12 weeks of pregnancy, the decision to undergo surgical treatment can be made based on the size and nature of the cyst and the opinions of the pregnant woman and her family. For cysts with a diameter greater than 8 cm, surgical treatment can be adopted. After the operation, attention should be paid to rest and pregnancy preservation treatment.

Ovarian cystectomy is mostly performed laparoscopically. For pregnant mothers, the operation is less traumatic, the recovery is quick, and the impact on the fetus is also small. Choice of surgical time. The operation is usually performed between 16 and 20 weeks of pregnancy, because after 16 weeks of pregnancy, with the formation of the placenta, the endocrine function of the placenta itself is sufficient to replace the function of the corpus luteum of the ovary, thereby avoiding adverse effects on pregnancy.

The above is the solution to ovarian cysts during pregnancy. Those who have this situation do not need to worry too much. They can get good treatment under the guidance of a doctor. As to whether ovarian cysts will affect pregnancy, it depends on the size of the cyst.