Callback Mammogram - how panicked should I be on a scale of 1-10?

[Anonymous]

I'm 42 and just had my third annual screening mammogram. Always do 3D. No family history. I just received a call they want me to come back in for additional images next week.

How panicked should I be?

[Anonymous]

This happened to me this summer. Apparently the image showed something odd which turned out to be a lymph node that had snuck in the picture. Not a big deal at all and they said it happens all the time. Just be wanted however that depending on your insurance it may not be covered. We got a lovely $2,000 bill in the mail for the “additional imaging”

[Anonymous]

2. Callbacks happen all the time. Like most of the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2. Callbacks happen all the time. Like most of the time.

This. It's nothing 90% of the time.

[Anonymous]

Not at all. My mother and grandmother both had breast cancer. I was called back two separate times over the years. Both times, nothing to worry about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This happened to me this summer. Apparently the image showed something odd which turned out to be a lymph node that had snuck in the picture. Not a big deal at all and they said it happens all the time. Just be wanted however that depending on your insurance it may not be covered. We got a lovely $2,000 bill in the mail for the “additional imaging”

OP here. Yeah - we have a high deductible plan so totally dreading/expecting this. But too scared to not go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2. Callbacks happen all the time. Like most of the time.

I agree with this.

[Anonymous]

2

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm 42 and just had my third annual screening mammogram. Always do 3D. No family history. I just received a call they want me to come back in for additional images next week.

How panicked should I be?

3.

I had a callback AND a biopsy and it was still nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:2. Callbacks happen all the time. Like most of the time.

So people are just paying thousands of dollars annually for callback mamograms that turn out to be nothing? Our country is SO messed up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2. Callbacks happen all the time. Like most of the time.

So people are just paying thousands of dollars annually for callback mamograms that turn out to be nothing? Our country is SO messed up.

yes. it's true. I didn't go back. Guess what...I don't have cancer! Shocking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2. Callbacks happen all the time. Like most of the time.

So people are just paying thousands of dollars annually for callback mamograms that turn out to be nothing? Our country is SO messed up.

yes. it's true. I didn't go back. Guess what...I don't have cancer! Shocking.

There are limitations to mammograms which is why the guidelines keep changing regarding screening, age in which to start, follow-up criteria, etc. It doesn't have anything to do with the country being "so messed up."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:2. Callbacks happen all the time. Like most of the time.

So people are just paying thousands of dollars annually for callback mamograms that turn out to be nothing? Our country is SO messed up.

yes. it's true. I didn't go back. Guess what...I don't have cancer! Shocking.

There are limitations to mammograms which is why the guidelines keep changing regarding screening, age in which to start, follow-up criteria, etc. It doesn't have anything to do with the country being "so messed up."

I’m that PP and I was referring to the fact that the callback mammos are common yet still cost people thousands. Not the limitation of the technology.

[Anonymous]

Often they call back because they botched it some how. The technology is such that they are always doing 2nd and 3rd checks because they can't always see the images clearly, if the tissue is dense, it is harder to read etc and if you change locations and they don't have access to older records, they want to test you within an inch of your life.

I wouldn't panic at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This happened to me this summer. Apparently the image showed something odd which turned out to be a lymph node that had snuck in the picture. Not a big deal at all and they said it happens all the time. Just be wanted however that depending on your insurance it may not be covered. We got a lovely $2,000 bill in the mail for the “additional imaging”

OP here. Yeah - we have a high deductible plan so totally dreading/expecting this. But too scared to not go.

This. I had no idea when this happened to me last year and was pretty pissed.