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Ferbevi - How painful were the biopsies?  I went in for a pap a few months back and was told that any more periods (T seems to have them stopped completely) would cause her to order a biopsy.  She said she would not order them yearly as they did years ago, but any bleeding would cause her to be at least a little suspicious.  She said not to come in for one of these biopsies unless I had some pain meds in my system in advance.  Yikes!  They stuck a piece of wire in my tumor, shot me full of blue die and then made me get a mammogram with the chunk of wire sticking out of my breast prior to my lumpectomy and all I got with that was a a shot which seemed to do nothing.  Can these biopsies be even worse than some of these pre-op experiences?  The two ladies doing my wire/die procedure kept saying, I can't believe your surgeon didn't order joy juice to make this easier to tolerate.  My very bad mood only got a little worse with that little tidbit of information.  I can't help but wonder if they had something mild in my IV when my surgeon came to tell me it was time for surgery.  Maybe it was just emotions, but I remember blurting out "the ladies at the breast clinic think you're a jerk for not giving me joy juice".  Saying this to his face helped me a lot and hopefully will help his future patients.  Something tells me he wouldn't want a wire jammed in his package and then have the whole works smashed flat in a mammogram machine.  I guess the up side is my gyn is admitting the biopsies can be quite painful and is warning me to be prepared.                      

So far, I don't have to get a biopsy.  You don't make it sound like it was too bad so that is reassuring.  Thanks for replying.        

Lindy - when I had the wire etc. they froze the area with something on the tip of the biopsy needle. I have also had a biopsy in my 'nether region' before too...it 'pinched'..but nothing major and it is over very soon!...