Ugh, I hate waiting for important things. I don't mind waiting for trivial things, packages, waiting in line (unless it's Walmart---I wonder why that is?), doc appointments and such, but possibly life changing things drive me crazy! I think we've had more waiting in the past few months for serious things than I have in my whole life! Gah. So I had a biopsy last Wednesday, and I still haven't heard anything from the docs office. Now that I have completely ruined my diet, (now I am frustrated and feel guilty) I am still sitting here worrying. What do you guys do to practice patience? Also has anyone else had a biopsy and how long did it take to find out answers? I already called yesterday and left a message, no surprise nobody called me back.
My Dr is pretty open and honest and will tell me to call on such and such a day at approximate X time IF I hadn't heard anything.
That being said, I have noticed, no call usually means good/neutral/ NOT a bad result (because we all know, some are what we want as negative results).
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If it is a situaltion where they are growing cells that usually takes at least a week to hear back. I agree, however, that no news is good news.! It's stuff like bloodwork that usually comes back faster in like 3 days.
Best wishes.
It took a week for me to get the results and yes, it was a LONG wait and I was VERY anxious the entire time. I found ways to try to keep busy and keep my mind off of it, but sometimes I just couldn't. I had to tell myself that no matter what the results were, I was going to be okay. It ended up that everything checked out fine, but it was a VERY long and stressful week. :) Blessings to you and may you find some way to get some peace. :)
Your lab received the sample on Thursday. Depending if they run that type of biopsy, it may have been sent to another lab that specializes in pathology. Either way, I think you will get an answer today. Call and follow up on. All biopsy results need to be given if it is the desired results or not.
