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Mammogram

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  • SallyUK wrote: »
    I had a routine mammogram two weeks ago Wednesday. (My second time). They told me it would be two weeks for the results to be sent to me. I came home from work at lunchtime today to find a letter waiting for me saying I'd been recalled for more tests and the first available appt they had for me was Wednesday next week.

    Needless to say I am so scared now and can't stop worrying about it all.

    Sal
    x

    It's normal enough to be worried and no one can say 100% you have nothing to worry about. But this has happened to people I know who have ended up having cysts etc. Only one person went on to be diagnosed with something and it was very early stage and treatable with radiotherapy, which she had no trouble with at all. The strongest likelihood is that you will have worried for nothing.

    As the others have said though, they would have called you back more urgently if they were very worried :)
  • SallyUK
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    Thanks for your replies ladies - I keep telling myself that if it had been serious, I'd have got a phone call - hopefully it will just be something related to menopause or hormones. I've never felt as well as I do now, as it happens, but I'm still worried sick.

    They made the appt for me Wednesday of next week but I can't manage then as I'm working, so they said they'd ring me back Mon morning to re-arrange - arrgh, it's a long weekend!

    Sal
    xx
  • SallyUK wrote: »

    They made the appt for me Wednesday of next week but I can't manage then as I'm working, so they said they'd ring me back Mon morning to re-arrange - arrgh, it's a long weekend!

    Definitely sounds like they are being cautious or they would be more insistent you keep the appointment.

    As an aside, don't you get time off for med appointments? Or do you just have something on you can't miss?
  • SallyUK
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    Hi Belfast girl

    It's because I work in a clinic too and I've got patients booked in for that time and its too short notice to get extra cover.

    Sal
    xxx

    Definitely sounds like they are being cautious or they would be more insistent you keep the appointment.

    As an aside, don't you get time off for med appointments? Or do you just have something on you can't miss?
  • pollypenny
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    I've bottled out of mammograms in the past, as I find them so painfully. Recently I asked my GP if I could have an ultrasound instead.

    The answer was no, but she gave me a valuable tip: take a high dose of ibuprofen an hour before the test. It worked. 600mg.
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  • elisebutt65
    elisebutt65 Posts: 3,854 Forumite
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    I was called for an early mammogram as well on 4th October. I was called back a fortnight later and had a core biopsy. They showed me my mammogram and I had a huge (6cm) mass. It wasn't palpable as it was deep in my ducts.

    I'm home from the hospital, having had a skin saving mastectomy, with an implant, and due to hear more results next Thursday when I will also have to see my oncologist.

    If I'd waited until I was 50, well, I probably wouldn't have reached 50!!

    I'm pretty fine about it after the initial cry but I'm more worried about being bored whilst signed off work now, so I've been writing it up in my blog. 'A touch of slap blogspot !' will bring it up if you want a read.
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  • I have recently had a mammogram for what turned out to be a cyst and I had heard that mammograms are painful, I can honestly say I didn't feel a thing and I had to have loads of images as I am a big !! girl.
  • SallyUK
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    Thats interesting that you say you needed loads of images.

    When I went to the mobile unit, I seemed to be in and out an awful lot faster than what I was the very first time I went, three years prior to that. I mentioned it to my friend and said it seemed to be really quick this time and I don't remember being asked to go into as many positions either.

    Or maybe I'm just trying to convince myself, I've got all sorts of terrifying thoughts going round my head.

    Sal
    x
  • SallyUK
    SallyUK Posts: 2,348 Forumite
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    Did you feel ok before you went for your mammogram? You had no idea?

    Sal
    x


    I was called for an early mammogram as well on 4th October. I was called back a fortnight later and had a core biopsy. They showed me my mammogram and I had a huge (6cm) mass. It wasn't palpable as it was deep in my ducts.

    I'm home from the hospital, having had a skin saving mastectomy, with an implant, and due to hear more results next Thursday when I will also have to see my oncologist.

    If I'd waited until I was 50, well, I probably wouldn't have reached 50!!

    I'm pretty fine about it after the initial cry but I'm more worried about being bored whilst signed off work now, so I've been writing it up in my blog. 'A touch of slap blogspot !' will bring it up if you want a read.
  • catzooo
    catzooo Posts: 169 Forumite
    I was called in October early for 1st routine mamogram, age 49. They found a 6cm mass. I am now having Chemo aiming to shrink the tumour before surgery in Spring.
    I have smallish boobs, and could not feel it myself. It is kind of flat against the chest wall.
    Please go get checked
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