Hi All.
I am just wondering if this is normal, because it is making me a little loopy. I had my mole biopsy last month on a mole to check for Melanoma - I was told the results would take two week and that I would be invited for an appointment.
The day before the two week mark, I called and asked about the appointment as I had not been contacted yet. The lady was very helpful, she checked and said that the results are available, she then said a phone appointment had been booked for another two weeks time.
I think I ticked a box to be told about the results by phone, so I am not too worried about that, she also said that the consultants are very busy and don’t have time to sit and call everyone straight away with the results, which I can understand. But most people appear to get the results much quicker, should they be good or bad.
So now my brain is buzzing, one sec I am thinking they would have told me by now if their was a problem, but then I am thinking, good results are only a quick phone call - probably less than 10 mins - so why make me wait?
anyway, I know you guys can’t tell me the answer of the test, but I was just wondering about your experience and if this is normal.
Hi Cherry0 and a very warm welcome to the online community which I hope you'll find is both an informative and supportive place to be.
I can understand why you'd come to 'The Room' to have a little rant about not being able to get your results quicker, so I hope you don't mind me suggesting that you join us over in the melanoma forum as you'll then connect directly with others who are waiting for or have waited for biopsy results for potential melanoma.
If you'd like to do this, just click on the link I've created and, once you've joined, you can start a new post in the same way as you did here and join in with existing conversations by clicking on 'reply'.
Personally I had a 6 week wait for results having been told that they would likely be back in 4 weeks and the 'normal' window where melanoma is concerned is usually between 2-6 weeks with 4 weeks being about average.
I hope that your biopsy shows that you don't have melanoma but, if you do, you'll get plenty of support in the melanoma forum.
Fingers crossed x
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That's great to hear it was benign Trentender
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