Mammogram call-back

[ny biker]

Hang in there Catrin. Hope everything comes back clear.

+1 on planning out the next steps, although from personal experience I can tell you that it's very difficult to damp the emotions down enough to comprehend the medical journal articles at times like this. Do the best you can, it's all anyone can do.

I'll be thinking of you.

I focus on just one next step, and keep it simple. Like "call cousin who is a nurse and ask her what I should do now" or "make appointment with Dr. GYN-who-I-trust-more-than-any-other-doctor to ask him what I should do next." Back when I lived 1000 miles from my family and had a lump removed from my shoulder blade, my planned next step was "buy a plane ticket and go home." More than anything, it's something to focus my thoughts on.

(When the biopsy on the shoulder blade lump came back negative, my actual next step turned out to be "buy donuts for everyone at work.")

[azfiddle]

Catrin,

I had the same experience last year. It turned out to be fine- not a problem, but I totally understand how nervous you might feel. Most likely it will be not be a problem - and there is nothing now you can do to change what it is so try to stay calm and take things just one step at a time. I'll be thinking of you and hope it's all fine.

SHaron

[Helene2013]

Same here 3 years ago. Was going in for mammo prior to breast reduction. Do normal mammo, get a call that I have to go back for a close-up mammo in one breast as there was a part that was too dense for them to see well. Did that, stressed but not too much (hubby was a nutcase though) as I am not the typ to stress until there is a real reason for it. Called me back to say still not good results and I have to go through an ultrasound this time. ouch. So went and the doctor was able to show me right away that it was just normal fluid pockets like we have and he even did the other breast to show me. Whew.... breath in/breath out! Now that I am at 50YO I got a letter for the government to get free-scanned. Just need to make appointment. I'm in no hurry. wonder why. hihi

So hang in there! Chances are it is just that...nothing to worry about. But don't we all stress as soon as a doc says he wants to see us back, or more testing needs to be done. Heuh.

[Crankin]

Catrin, my 3 experiences were many years apart. The first one, which resulted in the needle thing, stemmed when my ob-gyn felt a lump during my annual exam. Now, this was 1987, I had a 2 and 4.5 year old, and I was a wreck. It was a cyst that disappeared. The other 2, were just couldn't get a good reading.

[shootingstar]

Ask if you have fiborous boobs. Seriously.

[Catrin]

Ask if you have fibrous boobs. Seriously.

I will, never thought of that. I imagine something like that can cause a lot of initial false positives... I've also made a short list of a couple of things I will do if they don't think it is a cyst.

[snapdragen]

I had an ultrasound after my mammogram because I have "dense breast tissue". Pbbbt. My doc does have a very cool 3D ultrasound though. They found a small cyst (of course they did, because having stage 1 ovarian cancer isn't enough fun in itself. ..) so I go back in three months so they can look at it again. If things go like they usually do, the cyst will be gone. I've had numerous call backs over the years, I understand your stress and fear Catrin.