Endometrial Biopsy?!


Question:

Endometrial Biopsy?

I have been having heavy periods for some years now, i can't complain tho as they only last 3 - 4 days.
However the period before last was extremely heavy, i cannot even classify it as a period, more like an haemorrage, infact i had to call 911.
I was admitted to hospital and stayed in for 2 days, the bleeding did subside.
The hospital did do an ultrasound which showed a small fibroid and a bulky uterus
Strangely enough i never had any pain whatsoever with the haemorrage whereas normally with my periods i do have pain so not sure what that means.
Hospital referred me to Gynacologist who i saw about 1 month ago, i had an endometrial biopsy taken.
He told me it would take 10 days for it to come back.
Well now it is 3 weeks on, i just phoned office and was told results had just come back today. Drhas not seen them yet and he will contact me next week.
My question is to you ladies, have you had one done, and is it a bad sign when it takes so long to come back or is it positive?


Answers:

First off, I don't think you can decide if the results are "good or bad" by how long it takes the doctor to get the results. Bad results get to the referring doctor as soon as good results would. I am thinking that the doctor's office is just slow! Maybe it isn't their fault, maybe they have a huge caseload, whatever. It is unfair to their patients though! Once any of us have had a test, we worry until we get the results, and doctors should realize that. Even ten days sounds like a long time for biopsy results. When we do breast biopsies, they are done on Friday. The pathologist at our hospital does not work on weekends, and even so, by Wednesday morning, our office has a pathological report faxed to us. So, I would say that your doctor's office has had that report for a few days, and they are just too busy or just too lazy to report the findings to you. When you are all done with this situation, I would write a letter to your doctor and tell them how you felt when you were waiting for all this time. You don't have to call names or curse or be nasty.....but let them know how you felt!

As a total guess, I would say that your results are probably fine. Usually abnormal results don't sit in a doctor's office for long before some sort of action is taken. Best wishes to you!




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