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Anesthesia for a Prostate Biopsy
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It was the best 15 minutes of sleep I had since I had found out that I may have Prostate cancer. No issue at all. No pain afterwards. If your Doctor's approve it for you I would recommend taking it, especially since you said it was quicker than waiting for a clinic spot to open up. The anesthesia for a biopsy is very light, not like a surgery. I was told this by the anesthesiologist when I met him before the procedure. Good luck with everything.
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@perrychristopher
Good post.
Exactly what my anesthesiologist told me. It is not the heavy anesthesia associated with deep or extensive surgery where they bring you way down.
I think but not sure they give you a pretty good relaxer and use propronol (spell?). I had the same type of anesthesia when they did my ICD/Pacemaker surgeries, colonoscopy, and my biopsies.
I have heart failure, off and on AFIB but not sustained, and a lot of PVCs. My anesthesiologist said no problem with past anesthesia and don't expect them now but I will be there monitoring so don't worry.
The stuff they use these days for these type procedures when you wake up there is not that heavy drowsiness with deep or extensive surgery which takes quite a while for it to wear off