Teen Mom Kailyn Lowry reveals she was diagnosed with PCOS after believing she had CANCER due to heavy bleeding & pain
TEEN Mom Kailyn Lowry revealed she has PCOS, polycystic ovary syndrome, on her latest podcast episode.
She shared her diagnosis came after she believed she had CANCER following heavy period bleeding.
shared on her with Lindsie Chrisley that before she was diagnosed with PCOS "I was having such heavy periods. I was bleeding through three and four changes of clothes per day during my period... and I would bleed through my mattress. I would bleed through everything."
She added her gynecologist order labwork and an ultrasound which found she had almost 10 cysts on one ovary, and the other had a cyst that was half the size of the organ.
Before speaking with her doctor, the star googled what the labwork results could mean saying: "... the first thing that came in my mind, I'm like 'oh my god I have cancer.' I'm like crying. I don't want to die... I literally cried myself to sleep."
The 29-year-old said on Instagram with the help of her 4-year-old son Maverick: "2021 PCOS Advocacy Day is in the books. It was virtual this year but I feel like we got the job done."
The mother of three then shifts the camera to Maverick who says, "Don't they know PCOS is important," as they then both yell, "This is women's health!"
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Teen Mom OG 's aired on January 26th 2021 on MTV.
In January, Kailyn also revealed she had a after a growth developed on her "underboob."
She admitted on her podcast she used to tan in a tanning bed, sharing: "It was just not good cause I noticed that I wasn't getting moles, but more like freckles, kind of, were appearing and I had this one that wasn't like a mole. It wasn't raised. It was just darker. It looked like a darker freckle that was asymmetrical."
Kailyn went on: "So I got the call saying that it was pre-cancerous. It wasn't malignant, but it was pre-cancerous, so I have a little scar there."