Scared: liver has a coarsened echotexture

Hi, @kitnels - welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. I personally was tested extensively after my first ever colonoscopy found a neuroendocrine tumor they initially thought was a polyp till it was tested in the lab. I really dislike the time of being tested (I recall having tears flowing out of my eyes during one whole scan) and then waiting for all the results to come in. I get the term "scanxiety" now. Same for lab results.

Still, reading the results in my patient portal, it was kinda like a foreign language to me, not having any training in radiology or pathology. I only understood a small portion of the words. I could only guess at the ultimate meaning, as could my husband.

The toughest time was after this first colonoscopy when I thought my lab results might be saying I had cancer, and since my colonoscopy was on a Friday, I had no doctor to talk with till the next week. The wait was painful. I can only imagine it has been for you, too.

I found that I really could have no full understanding and certainly no perspective on the results till I finally talked to my general practitioner that Monday. I learned that I did have a cancerous tumor removed, but that it was the slow growing, low risk type.

Do you have all your lab work back now, kitnels? How about your imaging results? Has a doctor interpreted them for you?