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Essential Thrombocythemia: Looking for information and support
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That sounded like quite the experience for you! Yikes. Fortunately, bone marrow biopsies have become more common place since 1989 with refined techniques. I’ve not heard of anyone being vertical for the procedure. The baker’s dozen that I’ve had were all with me lying on my side, in a comfy position. The area where the marrow is extracted is just above one of the two dimples over the glutes on the backside.
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I'm sure procedures have come a long way since 1989. I was lying on my stomach. They had given me all of the pain medication before they wheeled me down. They were having to hold me in the wheelchair because I was nodding out. When they took my spleen out 6 months later when I was in Germany. My spleen was stuck to my pancreas and removing the spleen they tore my pancreas. They had a drainage tube in me for I don't know how long but my muscles grew around that drainage tube and it hurt worse than the biopsy did when he was removing the tube. That still today is the worst pain I've ever had in my life is when he was removing that tube. I literally threw up from pain. And passed out. The good old days lol.