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| - Went for Diagnostic Mammo in June 2018. Last visit was 2015, but they said they like patients to come in annually. Of course they do ($). Note that I have read that the more mammos/radiation you get, the more likely you will develop cancer. Then what do doctors treat it with? More radiation... Does that make sense? Nope.
Had to use the iPad for registration. Convenient, but do they get sanitized between patients? Not that I observed.
Both of their bathrooms inside their suite were Out of Order for plumbing problems. But there is a public restroom on the 2nd floor, oh joy.
I had already waited about 20 minutes in the front lobby, then I waited another 15 minutes in that braless little cotton poncho before being given my mammo, even though I was the only patient around.
After my mammo I was told to wait in the back waiting room again until being called for the ultrasound portion. After waiting 15 more minutes, I was told they wanted to do more mammography first, THEN an ultrasound (yay, more radiation).
After that I was told to wait again in the back waiting room for the ultrasound tech to call for me. That happened after about another 15 minutes. I was given an ultrasound by a female tech (another female -- a student -- was also present to observe).
Way more KY jelly was used than necessary and it even went up onto my face and no one apologized or wiped it off. I was left there alone to wait for the actual doctor to come do more ultrasound work, but it took about 30 minutes so I laid on my side for a cat nap, naked from the waist up with KY slathered everywhere in an air conditioned dark room. The doctor returned, did more examining, then left me alone another 10 minutes. The doctor then returned to discuss findings and let me go.
By the time I was ready to check out at the front desk, I noticed 4 staff people had gone home for the day, leaving one to check me out. They were about to close. There were no other patients around most of the time I was in the office, so I don't know why everything took so long. It seemed like I was there over 2 hours.
They scheduled a follow-up in a few days, which I heard a few days later was probably going to be changed because now one of their mammography machines was broken down. [I guess I broke it!] I was told their phones were going to voicemail during business hours because many patients were being rescheduled due to the broken equipment. I hope it wasn't putting out extra radiation or something on the day of my mammo...
The doctor suggested a needle biopsy, followed by a lumpectomy for a basic cyst. At home I read most of these cysts are hormonal and that they self-resolve. I also read that if there is anything cancerous, a needle biopsy has like a 25% incidence of releasing cancer cells throughout your body (no thanks). Then, they would still need to have you get a lumpectomy (at a separate company they would refer you to -- because Solis doesn't DO lumpectomies; they only possibly cause the problems and possibly spread the problems, they don't fix the problems). I read it's safer just to get a lumpectomy if you must do anything. The other option is waiting for hormones to resolve the cyst on their own and recheck with another mammo in a few months.
Also, the radiologist called me at home to discuss a few things and I mentioned how I noticed that applying my natural bioidentical progesterone cream over the known cyst area gave me some very quick relief from some achiness there. She immediately dismissed that out of hand as not even a remote possibility and said it was probably just a placebo effect, even though progesterone is known to counteract the effects of estrogen. That's like telling someone that their headache medicine relief is just a placebo effect. People are not idiots--they know what they are feeling and not feeling, and even a toddler can connect such obvious dots.
I also changed from using chlorine tablets in my hot tub to using food grade 35% hydrogen peroxide instead. That also improved my symptoms.
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