Kate Beckinsale Suffers Ruptured Ovarian Cyst: Doctors Say It's Common but Very Painful Over the weekend, Kate Beckinsale revealed on social media she was in tremendous pain because an ovarian ...

A ruptured cyst causes a sharp, sudden, and for some women, a numbing pain in the lower abdominal area. Pain usually occurs on the side of the body where the cyst ruptures.

Cysts become an issue when they either get too big (which is called ovarian torsion and can result in the loss of your ovary) or when they rupture, like Lena’s.

Ovarian cysts are fluid-filled sacs that form on or inside the ovaries for a variety of reasons. Often, they disappear on their own, but sometimes, they can grow very large, burst or cause an ...

Girls star/creator Lena Dunham, who has written about her struggle with endometriosis, was hospitalized Saturday for a ruptured ovarian cyst. It will require surgery, her rep confirmed.

Beckinsale, 45, posted photos on Instagram from a hospital bed after suffering a ruptured ovarian cyst. “Turns out a ruptured ovarian cyst really hurts and morphine makes me cry,” she wrote.

"Turns out a ruptured ovarian cyst really hurts and morphine makes me cry," Beckinsale, 45, captioned a photo of herself lying in a hospital bed looking quite miserable.

“Turns out a ruptured ovarian cyst really hurts and morphine makes me cry,” Beckinsale wrote in the caption of two pictures posted on her official Instagram account.