Hi! I just wanted to share what happened to me last night. I've been putting castor oil on my stomach together with a towel and a hot water bottle a few times after I've heard other people using it as a home remedy for ovarian cysts. And I had placed it on my stomach while resting for about 45 min. I had been very active cleaning my house for a few hours before and I thought it was a good time to rest with the castor oil heat pack while listening to binural beats. Afterwards I felt rested, and I went to the store to get a few things, then I had some dinner and watched some tv while feeling fine. Then I all of a sudden got a rapid heart beat and I started to feel really hot and dizzy while sitting still.

I panicked and thought that I was maybe experiencing symtoms of ovarian torsion or a rupture. I even made an emergency phone call but I fortunately didn't have any sharp pelvic pain. The nurse I talked to was very helpful and calmed me down so I didn't end up needing to see a doctor. I felt better after I took an ibuprofen, and after I had showered and had some left over dinner and some fluids. My mother came over after I called her just in case I needed to go to the ER, and she also stayed until I was feeling better. My mother mentioned that she thought about bringing her blood pressure monitor, but she forgot it at home, and she told me that low blood pressure can cause the symtoms I had.

So I googled low blood pressure symtoms as well as castor oil side effects and I started to understand that maybe it wasn't the cyst, just me reacting badly to either to the castor oil and/or the heat exposure.

So basically I just wanted to warn others using castor oil heat packs for your ovarian cysts, to just be careful. I think both heat exposure and and castor oil can cause dizzyness and nausea. This wasn't the first time I had done a castor oil heat pack just like this, so I didn't think that anything bad would happen. But this time I had been more physically active during the day and maybe I hadn't had enough fluids before or after so I will definitely be careful before doing it again in the future.