Hah I thought it was.
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So the results are visually seen there and then at the time of the scan and don't have to disappear into a big black NHS hole before a radiologist can read and visualise an x-ray (as happens with a mammogram). This type of scan results can therefore be turned around quickly. My Gyno said that digital images can be taken but usually the result is just a letter saying what the scan showed,
Honestly I have been there - done all that - worrying and it always turned out I worried for no good reason. So now I don't worry.
I know that you will worry over the weekend but can I just say this, based on my personal experience of messages on my voicemail. Think about it logically rather than in full panic mode!
If it was serious you would have been told something before now, on the day or very very soon after. This is because the scan is an immediate visual procedure any problems are seen while the scan is being done.
Also don't forget the results can be emailed quickly to your GP practice, that fact they have been sent quickly does NOT mean there is anything sinister, last ultra sound scan I had (recently) I asked the nurse doing the scan (who are qualified to do these scans) what she was actually imaging /seeing during the scan. I was told by her that everything was "unremarkable (i.e. normal) and I got the result the day after next day. All was fine. The scan the year before I didn't ask and I wasn't offer any information (that one was OK too)
If there was a problem (i.e. not a serious urgent thing) rationally - your GP would have asked that you are contacted to make an emergency appt at the surgery.
In my experience the telephone consultations are the most time efficient way my GP surgery gives test results when no particular follow up is required. Remember that the GP has to give you the results, he/she can't not tell you the result even if its “all clearâ€, and the telephone consult is just one way of doing this.
So think about it logically, you need to be told the scan result and a telephone call is a time efficient way of doing this, so.... why assume it is bad news?
My surgery allocates particular times each day for each GP to have telephone consults when a face to face isn't needed, it frees up surgery time for personal face to face appointments.
I know it is hard – but please try not to worry, remember you won't get this weekend back! So relax and enjoy the rest of the weekend.