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Anesthesia for a Prostate Biopsy
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I have had 6 biopsies since 2014. Two - including one this year - were under anesthesia. The rest were without anesthesia. Biopsies without anesthesia are not very painful: but you will just experience discomfort as they take each of the dozen or whatever number of samples. But I do prefer the biopsies under anesthesia even though I can tolerate the ones without.
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It comes down what is best for you. Never had biopsies without anesthesia (not deep) so can't comment on how I felt as never had any pain prior to, during, after but I had anesthsia.
For some the mental stress and anxiety of having biopsies done without anesthesia is a real concern for many. Working with your doctors (like I did) is important to some of us as having cancer itself is enough stress and anxiety without the worry and axiety of biopsies.