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12th September 2017
06:37pm BST

Her post in full reads:
"Last night ended super weird. But if you listen to my podcast, you know our advice is always, don't be a hero, go to the doctor. Anyway, I had a crazy excruciating pain in my lower right side and after a long time at Mass Gen, it was determined my ovary had flipped over- it's called torsion. "Mine flipped back by itself and I'm ok but sometimes if it doesn't you have to get surgery or you can lose your ovary(which actually happened to a really good friend of mine) Anyway, my point of posting this was I felt like an idiot for going to the hospital but ultimately, going was the right move! It always is! Even if they say you're fine and send you on your way! And a huge thank you to the amazing doctors and nurses who took care of me!"Dr Grace Lau spoke to SELF about how torsion can present, explaining that it can present itself when a benign cyst "is weighing the ovary down". She also said that the pain can come and go, it can be dull or crampy and sometimes it's accompanied by nausea and/or vomiting. At the hospital, an ultrasound is generally needed to determine if torsion is causing the pain and then surgery is often conducted to return the ovary to its original position. Main image via Instagram: Busy Philipps