CALL BACK AFTER A MAMMOGRAM - Page 2

CelticCrafter · ‎03-09-2010

They are just now calling to say there was something not right, two months later?

Unacceptable.

Vivian · ‎03-11-2010

Just an aside. I found a facility where you get immediate results. It's in a hospital. You wait for an agonizing 20 minutes while a radiologist reads the films. Once I had to stay for an ultrasound. Everything turned out OK but after that experience, I ask my doctor for a Xanax to deal with it. This way, there's no long-term torture.

char1976 · ‎03-16-2014

I don't what state your in but my sister who lives in Missouri said that according to insurance she has to have a momogram and an MRI. She hasn't had breast cancer. But My mother and I have had breast cancer and have never had a MRI and we live in Arkansas.

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

@Vivian,

I've never had to wait for results either and if there was any question about it I got an ultrasound right then.

Maybe it is different at different facilities.

"If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew. Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"

skatting44 · ‎07-26-2019

two months later for additional imaging ? Maybe they see fibrocystics that are caused by hormones. Also the last mammogram I had the tech had to note in which arm I had received the Covid vaccine as some women they are noting to have enlarged swollen lymph nodes in the breast area after vaccine administration , even months later .

icezeus · ‎10-30-2010

@skatting44 wrote:
two months later for additional imaging ? Maybe they see fibrocystics that are caused by hormones. Also the last mammogram I had the tech had to note in which arm I had received the Covid vaccine as some women they are noting to have enlarged swollen lymph nodes in the breast area after vaccine administration , even months later .

@skatting44

When I received my Booster my lymph nodes in my left arm pit really swelled up. It was extremely painful for several days.

This is after having no reaction to the first or second vaccine.

Scooby Doo · ‎03-14-2010

If your next appt isn't until June I doubt you have anything to worry about. They probably just need to get a better picture for comparison.

I've had several call backs, ultrasounds, and cysts removed.

But the one callback that I had said the radiologist needs you to come back in. Tomorrow would be great. Anytime you want. That's when I knew something was wrong. Yep, I had cancer, but it was caught early. I haven't had anymore issues since 2004. Knock on wood.

BlueFinch · ‎08-31-2019

@Tinkrbl44 I've been called back for an ultrasound a couple of times. It was just a fibrous cyst. I still have it, but now they just see if it changes. No more recalls, or ultrasounds.

I feel if yours was highly suspicious, they would have moved quickly. I bet they saw something that they figure is not serious, or possibly an imaging artifact, but they want to make sure it is documented, just for routine monitoring, so this isn't an ongoing recall situation. Seems they would just do an ultrasound, though, instead of an MRI.

I know it's hard, but try not to worry. It never does one darn bit of good anyway. Thoughts will be with you for an uneventful recall.

kaiwahini · ‎02-18-2022

I have been to the same facility for all my mammograms. The first one I had I was called back (very common for first-timers) and they got me in within a week. They wanted more pics.

The last time I was called back was a couple years ago after my first 3-D mammo (also very common). Again they got me within a couple weeks, but I complained about the angst it causes to be called back without knowing why. I was told that I could've requested the doctor to call me back and they would have explained what was going on.

My mother went to a different facility in town for a mammo when she found a lump. She went to the doctor and he told her to get in right away. They scheduled her for a month out - knowing it was a lump! The doctor "pulled strings" to get her in within the week and because it was still suspicious, they scheduled a biopsy a week after that (should've been done sooner). It was stage 3 aggressive cancer. She was in surgery by the time the original mammo was scheduled and the lump had grown a lot according to the surgeon.

Don't wait! Press for answers!

Tinkrbl44 · ‎08-23-2010

@CelticCrafter wrote:
They are just now calling to say there was something not right, two months later?

Unacceptable.

@CelticCrafter

And the second appt is in another two months. Makes me think this is routine, not some super suspicious something or other they saw on the mammogram film.