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> how bad / invasive is getting a biopsy? About the same as getting a prostate biopsy, except you can lie on your back instead of on your side while they shove
by bregma 7y ago
> how bad / invasive is getting a biopsy?
About the same as getting a prostate biopsy, except you can lie on your back instead of on your side while they shove several large hollow needles into your flesh to cut out pieces of a very sensitive gland.
- lotu 7y agoI don't think comparing it to prostate biopsy helps most people. I assume they anesthetize you so you don't actually feel pain just really weird, possibly upsetting tugging right? Afterwards you take some regular pain killers for a few days. This doesn't feel like a big deal to me but I'm likely wrong. Maybe it is only a big deal for some people like how how people who are claustrophobic freak out in the MRI.
- bregma 7y agoProstate biopsies are usually done without any anaethesia, just a bug gun up the bung that fires multiple needles and retracts. Breast biopsies maybe use sedation and maybe a local bit of lidocaine, maybe not, depending. It doesn't make a lot of sense to stick a needle in so you don't feel a needle sticking in, but they're different gauge needles.
- walshemj 7y agoDepends on where, I have had kidney biopsys its painless but does take a team of 3 and you spend most of a day flat on your back (taking up a hospital bed) being monitored every 15 mins