Help please panicking

[Whysolon]

Quick question… why would a hospital randomly call you for a CT scan six months after you had an ultrasound? Not even had an appointment or one given with a consultant.

Please can anyone help? Panicking.

Anyone ? ☹️

Most likely cause is because there's a backlog in the service - they likely got round to the more urgent apts first then fit you in when they could. There was likely a miscommunication (or lack of) if you hadn't been informed of it prior, which happens regularly unfortunately.
Worth giving them a ring tomorrow, but I wouldn't worry too much with it being 6 months later.

There was probably something unclear on the ultrasound they want to take a closer look at. Did you ever get the reports from the original scan? It's possible that the report slipped through the cracks and they only realised it now.

This doesn't necessarily mean anything sinister but they need to double check. There's a huge range of weird lumps that can occur in the human body, the majority of which are harmless.

Thank you for getting back to me. They found small kidney stones on the ultrasound and that was it.

I have recently had a partial hysterectomy and also had biopsies done etc. I know findings were being sent to pathology.

I am worried about the correlation between the two- could it be connected .

Do departments communicate between each other ?
Just a bit freaked out .

If you’ve recently had some other tests done then I would expect it to be more related to that and they want to see a full picture. I had a CT scan after an ultrasound but I was told explicitly what they were looking for (to check the size of the spleen was accurate on the US).

Thank you , they didn’t really elaborate, just said I had to go in. I also had an MRI three months ago but that was to do with my gynae surgery.

I am going to call them today. Not sure I will get anything out of it.
It just seems very coincidental after having the surgery not that long ago.

This happened to me a few years back.

I’d had an ultrasound as I suffer IBS and they wanted to check my upper organs. The sonographer at the time mentioned I had a kidney cyst but said it’s nothing to worry about.

A month or so passed and out of the blue I received a telephone call from the hospital saying I needed an urgent CT scan and to come down that afternoon. No one could give me any other info. I had a panicky meltdown.

I asked for the referring consultants name and when I googled him it said he was a oncology urologist. I was literally beside myself at this point and would ring his secretary who got totally pissed off with me as she could give me no information at all for weeks. Even my GP was left in the dark as no one had contacted her.

In the end it turned out the kidney cyst was actually very large with a septated area and they wanted to check on it for a few years then discharged me.

Hopefully, it’ll be something like this for you and a it’ll just be bit of a backlog/catch up thing. Hospitals do frustrate me at times, I know they are up to their eyeballs but they often forget there is a human being behind that hospital number!