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30-day juice cleanse to heal an ovarian cyst

My journey with an ovarian cyst began about a year before I knew what it was. Twice I experienced pain in my lower left side that stopped me being able to function and led me to tears, but the pain faded within hours and I soon forgot about it. About a year after the first experience, the pain returned while I was shopping with my children, and by the evening it had intensified to the point of trembling and nausea.

Intense pain and diagnosis

I know what it is to experience labour and birth, and this kind of pain was much like that except it came with fear of the unknown. The pain was intensifying, so my husband took me to the emergency department. Mild pain relief did nothing; I was finally given morphine which gave me some relief. A simple ultrasound suggested an ovarian cyst. An official ultrasound a few weeks later confirmed a cyst on my left ovary of

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