No worries! And in retrospect (?), my MRI found my abnormality and biopsy proved malignancy!! Mammo and Ultrasound didn't see it.....
sorry, RTRM521, I meant to address healthcareguerilla in my above post. cheers, Katrin
'It seems extremely risky to submit to injection of a heavy metal like gadolinium when breast pathology results are benign.....'
But in retrospect, the MRI may well turn out to not be benign, and in that case, is the risk lower, and therefore justified?
I am not saying that MRI is always the best test, as it sometimes shows false positives, and in my case it shoed false negatives. (One day before my surgery, all my lymph nodes registered as benign under the MRI, and when the surgeon cut me open the following day, almost all of my lymph nodes were cancerous)
I should also mention that I do not feel entirely comfortable with MRI's either as I have had an allergic reaction to the gadolinium every single time, and the last two times was told to pre-medicate with Prednisone and Benadryl)
Katrin
From what our radiologists tell us, an MRI of the breasts without the use of gadolinium yields very little information. At our facility, all of our breast MRI's are done with the injection.