Originally Posted by Annalee:
I had a mammagram scheduled for tomorrow but they called me to ask if I had the vaccine recently....told me they requested me waiting till 8 weeks past the second dose??? Wonder why they just began that and didn't ask when I made the appoinment last month?? My second dose is March 25 so it will be mid May before I can get that done??
The vaccine can cause swollen lymph nodes that will show up on the mammogram, confusing the results. This happened to a coworker. The CDC is warning about it on their FAQs for the vaccines.