Genuine question for those who've had the misfortune of going through this - what made you think "hey, I should get this checked out"? My biggest fear is that I may not even realise that I have something wrong until it's quite advanced (same for my wife really), especially since we're not really whingers and we tend to just get on with things unless it's obviously something bad.
The wife was asked this question a couple of weeks ago.
Her blood tests 3 months before she was diagnosed were normal
Slightly overweight she'd been doing water aerobics , losing weight then feeling slightly bloated, feeling full on less food, slightly heavier periods.
She was doing a water aerobics class the day before, woke up the next day, then a stabbing pain.
Stubborn as she is thought she was going to work, trip to the to gp, straight to A&E.
Can always remember the doctor pushing down because he thought it was an appendicitis and the Mrs nearly decking him.
One general surgeon having a gentle play referred to gynecology and finding out it's an ovarian tumor.
Moral of this on put a frog in water and slowly heat it up.
Looking back the signs were there but we didn't really notice.
Roll on op time a mucinous ovarian tumor, weighing 36kg including fluid staged 1c2.
2 days in ICU couple of days on ward and then back home.
We're lucky we've made a lot of friends from the op ward still ongoing treatment.
Unfortunately some aren't here today
Edit: should add part of why we picked up our lives moved out of London, down near the beach for a different way of life.
Three and a bit year's on and the wife has an incisional hernia to sort out from the original op, but she's alive and we're just living our life and enjoying each day