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Has anyone had a painful biopsy? What was the explanation?
Breast Cancer | Last Active: May 6 7:40am | Replies (66)Comment receiving replies
I've had 3 different biopsies, in 3 breast locations. Two were the fast fine needle injector, guided by ultrasound and the other with CT scan, where the needle shoots quickly with a "click" into the potential tumor & withdraws the sample. Those were easy; with the CT I was under light anesthesia. The third I thought would be the same, but they changed the plan to using a breast MRI and a whirring-sounded extractor, that ended up causing hard to stop bleeding, and soon after a big hematoma that took months to heal. They found nothing! I'll never allow that one again, only fine needle biopsies.
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@jardinera25
Similar to my experience as well. Ended up needing breasts compression wrapped to slow the bleeding and wore the wrap home instead of a bra, after mri biopsy. My mammo guided biospy I only felt a slight pinch at numbing. The biopsy itself was not bad but the numbing needles behind the nipple hurt! I am reading about requests I can make in the future to lessen that pain. I have the knot and severe bruising, even got a bit of blood 4 days later when the steri strips were removed. Dreading seeing the breast surgeon this week because I am 64 high risk and the papilloma is 2.6 cm, and causing nipple discharge, so very likely it will be removed.
Did you get blood from the center of the nipple after the biospy?