sqad
The lady in question has had a scan of the stomach/abdomen and she also had an internal examination through her ' front down below ' .
She was advised that the womb and tubes were clear .
Is that an encouraging sign , given the fluid in stomach ?
I apologize for maybe being a scaremonger but my dear friend had cancer in the outer wall of the stomach. Took time to identify where the cancer was but he was full of ascites fluid and as sqad says not very good news.
\\\\\The lady in question has had a scan of the stomach/abdomen and she also had an internal examination through her ' front down below ' .
She was advised that the womb and tubes were clear . \\\
Are we to assume that the other abdominal organs were clear OR just the womb and tubes?
LOL........OK Bazile......probably my fault.
Stomach can either describe the "stomach" or the abdomen depending upon the identity of the describer. Stomach is specific and abdomen is no specific.
I know that i am nor making myself clear.
I cannot think of the relevance, if at all, for the comment..."fluid in the stomach"
We are going around in circles as we may well be singing from different hymn sheets.
Bazile.......I am guilty here of criticising other ABers for jumping to conclusions, when i have done the same.
We must be sure as to what we are dealing with.....ASCITES or fluid in the stomach ( the organ).
\\Would a person going through the menopause , likely to suffer fluid retention in the abdomen ?\\
Maybe, but it would be extremely unlikely to show up on a scan and the fluid retention of the menopause is generalised, distributed throughout the whole body and not localised.