Well hello old thread! I just had my second mammogram last week. I posted about this above, but I am a subject in a study for Breast Health and got placed in the "yearly mammogram" group. So went back a week ago and just got called today to come back in for a diagnostic mammo and ultrasound on my right breast. They didn't say what they found or anything, but obviously something. I know there's lots of talk about further imaging often needing to be done and shouldn't freak out about it, etc., but I'm a little more worried in this instance because they have my last year's images to compare to. So it feels like to me (although I'm totally guessing) that they saw something in this year's that wasn't in last year's, which doesn't sound good in any case. So that sucks. I'm going in Wednesday morning, so hopefully I know more then and glad it's not a long wait.
I might have posted this upthread but about 8 years ago, my doctor referred me for an ultrasound after she felt something during a manual exam and I couldn't get that ultrasound for like 3 weeks! And then the day I finally was supposed to go they called me to tell me that they couldn't take me because someone called in sick. So I immediately started crying and was like, "I've been waiting to see if I have cancer already for 3 weeks and now I have to get rescheduled several more weeks?" They took pity on me and squeezed me in. And at that time it was nothing, so here's hoping it is again!
The one thing I'm hoping is that they just did bad imaging. At this location (a different medical system, perhaps not quite as highly thought of as the world class medical system I was a patient in at this time last year), they did less images to start with and I felt like it was a lot less uncomfortable/painful/awkward. The tech did not take as long getting me into strange and crazy positions for the images. I was in and out in like 7-8 minutes. So perhaps it's possible they just aren't as good as the images from last year and they can't be sure about these ones, and again! totally normal! to need more imaging! I'll just be over here doing lots of deep breathing for the next 36 hours...
(P.S. unfortunately, unlike brooklynmoney, posting a similar situation above, I wasn't just before my period)