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Share your test results (if you'd like)
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I just had my Pet scan done the results are in but I’m too chicken to look it up on mychart so I’m waiting to hear from my Doctor I don’t know what it’s worst waiting for the Doctor to call me or just look the darn thing up 🙁
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It might help to be clear about what you'd want to accomplish by looking early. Are you looking for reassurance? Advanced warning if something's bad? What will you do if there's language you don't fully understand, and might be bad or just harmless?
I did choose to look at my bone scan results this week, and they were clear and comprehensible. The opening sentence was
"At this time, there is a no convincing evidence of bone metastatic disease given the current context."
Which made me less stressed researching what the technical language in the rest of the report meant. But not every doctor will write a clear, layperson-level summary like that.