I have been diagnosed with ovarian cyst.? I have had it for about 3 months now. It is 7cms in diameter. My doctor has asked me to go in for a laparoscopy to find out what kind of cyst it is. My CA-125 test is normal. I asked my doctor if there is any mediaction I could try, but she said there is no such magic pill that will make the cyst vanish.When I type 'ovarian cyst' in some search engines I get to read the Q & A's in some forums. In that I found that many women have said their doctors gave them birth control pills and the cyst got drained. But my doctor says these pills can only in helping prevention of cyst formation in the future. So we have to do laparoscopy now to find out if it is benign and also because if a cyst this big has not gone away in 3 months then it has to be removed or else it may damage the ovaries. Please kindly advise.

Summarized question: Is surgery the only treatment for a large ovarian cyst?