CT SCAN

[Kimbad1990]

hi,

I suffer really badly with health anxiety and have recently had a CT scan done on sinuses. I was just wondering if Anyone knows how long I should expect to wait for results? I was in such a state I just wanted to get out and didn’t ask the relevant questions. I was just told that the results will be sent to the doctor who requested the scan and not my own surgery? Thank you

[Hidden]

It depends on the speed of the radiology department. Mine were given to me via phone (by my doctor) within 48 hours.

[ElephantsHear]

Hi, if you don’t hear from your healthcare provider in a week I’d call. If it’s an urgent issue, like a tumor blocking your nasal passage you’ll usually get called within 24 hours. I wish you the best and that you get some answers to your problem.

[Rosepetal60]

I was told 2 weeks

[Tarsius]

There is no technical reason for a selay. It isn't like blood cultures that need time to grow or anything like that. The radiologist (a doctor specialising in terpreting X-ray and CT images) will need to look at the images and then write a letter to the doctor who ordered the scan. In most places that letter will go on your NHS record pretty quickly, so it may be accessible to your GP within a few days, pr ot it might be copied to them on paper,but it seems to depend on the local health board and the hospital how they handle these things. In my experience, if nothing is wrong they are often rather slow at getting back with scan results, and indeed don't always tell the patient or even the GP at all, so I would take no news as good news unless you have continuing symptoms. If you know who the doctor who ordered the scan was, you could try to phone their secretary after a week or so and either ask for any updates or ask them to get the doctor to write to you.

[bethelbee]

I've always gotten my results within 2 days; I am in the states