Findings in mammogram

Autumnsweater75

hello everyone,

I had my yearly mammogram last Wednesday 4/13. Yesterday I found a letter on the mail that said my results showed a "finding" and that I need to schedule another diagnostic mammogram. My breast are very dense, that it says in the letter as well.

I have the appointment for next Wednesday for the mammogram.

I'm worried, anxious, and I'm also wondering why they took them so long to let me know about this finding, and also how come they give me an appointment one week from now.

I feel like they have no rush at all, and that they don't care about my time.

I'm annoyed because they should have said something the day I had my mammogram, or just call the dr, why let a week pass, and why another week to have the diagnostic? It's Stanford university.

Autumn

MelissaDallas

Because the people taking the mammogram are not the physician radiologists reviewing them and writing the reports later-they can't do it then.

A big portion of "findings" get resolved when they take more pictures at different angles and/or magnfication. It can be something as simple as a fold in your skin under the plate, or something that on closer look appears to be clearly benign. About 10% of mammograms get recalls.

Autumnsweater75

hi Melissa!

Thank you so much for your reply!

I did another mammogram last year and they told me to wait in the waiting room then 15 minutes later they told me everything was fine, to come back in one year.

This time they took a full week to send me a letter and they did not even contacted my dr to get me a referral for the diagnostic mammogram, I had to call them several times between yesterday and this morning until someone sent the referral.

I feel so lonely in this process

MelissaDallas

I know, and those stupid form letters they send are worthless, regardless of which you get. The "everything is fine, see you next year" ones have no specifics, even when there may be some most-likely benign findings, and the "we need you to come back" are scary as hell because they don't give you any specific at all. The facility I go to can't even tell you anything about those if you call.

Autumnsweater75

hello, updating this.

I had my diagnostic mammogram today and turned out to be normal bi rads 1.

Findings from first mammogramwere just a cluster of fibers in my left breast.

Thanks you,

Autumn

Sjacobs146

Yay! Thanks for sharing the good news.

You may want to ask the place where you get your mammograms if there is a certain time you can go to get your results immediately. A friend of mine goes to a place where they will only read them immediately if you are there before 2 pm. At my doctors office, they are sent to a radiologist who reads them at a later time. Now I have them done at the hospital in the Breast Center and they're read immediately.