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How much heat are we talking about? General anesthetic amount or local enough?
by Beltiras 7y ago
How much heat are we talking about? General anesthetic amount or local enough?
- HorizonXP 7y agoI was about to say definitely general anesthetic, but I'm not 100% sure now. The patients for prostate cancer were definitely put under. I don't know about the uterine fibroid patients though. They might have received an epidural? It's less about the pain of the heat, and more about the discomfort of having probes in your genitals, and the requirement that you stay perfectly still.
- Tharkun 7y agoConsidering they're putting a rod up your urethra which will be burning you from within, and another device up your rectum, while you're in the uncomfortable confines of an MRI scanner, I suspect local might not be something most people would be comfortable with.
- thafoobar 7y agoLots wouldn't be comfortable, but there's a few who'd likely be ok with it. Urethral+anal electric stimulation is a relatively known kink. There's no way to keep still in that situation though, so I'd expect anaesthesia would be necessary for that.