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  • Flanancy
    Flanancy Member Posts: 17 Member

    yes . I have to get off the fence though. Knowing or not knowing. I wish it was the good old days when the actual doctors had time to call you and discuss your fears. When left to my own devices, I over research and make myself a bit crazy.

  • Kim25
    Kim25 Member Posts: 22 Member

    it’s frustrating and sometimes the results aren’t clear so you need a doctor to interpret them

  • Kim25
    Kim25 Member Posts: 22 Member

    Open them? If it’s clear great you have an Anwser. If it’s not clear there might be a cancer contact number you can call?

  • Kim25
    Kim25 Member Posts: 22 Member

    yeah…doctors aren’t like they use to be

  • NoTimeForCancer
    NoTimeForCancer Member Posts: 3,486 Member

    Flanancy, we wait to hear when you are ready. Hugs dear. Try to take a breath.

  • Kim25
    Kim25 Member Posts: 22 Member

    you can look and not tell him.
    So sorry - ugh we might be in the same boat…

  • MoeKay
    MoeKay Member Posts: 493 Member

    Keeping my fingers crossed that your news is good, Flanancy! At least you have options that didn't exist when I was diagnosed. Back in the "good old days" of 1999 when I had my endometrial biopsy, they didn't post test results online. I got a call a week to the day after my biopsy from the gynecologist's office staff telling me I had to come into the office to get the results. I tried to get her to give me the results over the phone, but she repeated that the doctor wanted to see me. Of course, it didn't take a genius to know that the news was not good and they didn't want to give me bad news over the phone. So I took off time from work to travel to the office to receive news that I had already figured out. I'm glad things are online now; at least we have choices.

  • Flanancy
    Flanancy Member Posts: 17 Member

    I guess there are two ways of looking at it. My doc office never bothered to call as promised, which dilutes his credibility with me. I would rather get results from someone I can discuss it with. But I get it was inconvenient and maybe costly for you to have to leave work.

  • MoeKay
    MoeKay Member Posts: 493 Member

    Flanancy, I think sometimes the right hand doesn't always know what the left hand is doing in these medical offices. In 2022, when I received a copy of the biopsy results of a lesion in my scalp diagnosing basal cell skin cancer, I called the dermatologist's office to discuss the next steps. They put me on hold several times to check and finally told me that they had not received the results of the biopsy yet, so I would have to wait for that to happen before we could proceed. I offered to forward a copy of what I had to them, but they insisted that they had to have original results from the pathologist. I think it was only a matter of a day or so, but my doubting self had trouble believing that I got the pathology report before the doctor's office. Maybe there is some similar confusion going on in your doctor's office, where he doesn't even realize that he or his staff received your results yet? I'm not defending these goings on, but I've got several wonderful specialists with not-always-so-wonderfully-run offices.

  • Flanancy
    Flanancy Member Posts: 17 Member

    I was supposed to get my TVU results from them by phone within four days. I myself received it in day one. They said they had not received it when I called. So I told them I had it for days. They begrudgingly looked and found it and proceeded to read it to me. I said once again, I already read it and had questions. Had to wait until appointment. Now, they never called on my d and c results. I think they are just incompetent. Pretty much decided to go to Mayo if needed.

  • Kim25
    Kim25 Member Posts: 22 Member

    Flanancy,

    How are you feeling?