Katie Holmes from England, not to be mistaken with Katie Holmes the American actress with the same name, was only 19 years old when she started getting symptoms that made her think she was pregnant. Her symptoms included what seemed to be morning sickness, her periods stopping all of a sudden, she had difficulty peeing, and her belly started to grow. Those could totally be pregnancy symptoms, right? Except they weren't, they were actually symptoms of an ovarian cyst.
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Katie took multiple pregnancy tests that came back negative, she also went to doctor on more than one occasion and was told that she was not pregnant. She even got a prescription for antibiotics to treat urinary tract infections because of the difficulty she was having when peeing, but the prescription didn't help at all. And the whole time her belly kept growing. Sadly, it wasn't a baby, it was a 14-pound cancerous ovarian cyst.
Katie's story should be taken as a reminder that we all need to advocate for our health, as you'll see.