Biopsy Pain

When I had 2 biopsies within 2 weeks in the same breast, by breast turned purple, blue, yellow, orange.  It took months to go away. Many women feel very supportive bras like jogbras were very helpful.  I also found ting ice packs helpful.

Tenderness, hot, red, swelling? If you think you may have an infection, then get ahold of your doctor or whoever is on call for him/her.  If they don't respond, then get it checked out by a clinic or ER. 

YAY, Margi! I'm so glad to hear that you're beign!

I had a pretty painless ultrasound-guided core biopsy a week and a half ago, which also turned out to be benign. Mine didn't bruise too terribly, and was only a little painful a couple of days after the biopsy.  But, I had a bad reaction to the surgical tape that they used to close the incision which caused me to get two huge blisters under the tape and I got a rash, apparently from the disinfectant product they used to prep me for the biopsy, that spread from my belly almost to my shoulder and crept around to my back. The rash is just now going away and the blister marks are still there. Sigh.

The whole process of having parts of you squished and then having little bits cut out (and little bits of metal put in instead) seems, well, not exactly space age science, you know? Still, getting the word that you're ok, at least for now, is really wonderful! I hope you are spending the day eating and sleeping and doing all the things you couldn't bring yourself to do while you were waiting for results!