What if I sneeze? Stereotactic biopsy

Also - can I bring Kindle? They said 30-90 minutes, but maybe most of that is positioning and lidocaine, not actual sitting still and trying to breathe motionless-ly?

I'm thinking of trying mouth-breathing when they go in with the needle. They told me not to move during the two sets of mammograms, and I felt the urge to hold my breath, which was terrible because I'd hold my breath when I thought they'd started and then after 5 seconds I'd hear the machine start up, and I'd be like, SERIOUSLY???

(Thanks Brooke - I feel better knowing it won't be a full 90 minutes of needle probing...)

I feel like it would be bad luck to ask my stupid questions, because the first time I was pregnant, when I went to the labor/delivery class they recommend you take, I asked how the placenta detaches after delivery but you don't bleed out. And the teacher was just an aide and not a doctor, and didn't know the answer. And sure enough, I hemorrhaged after delivery. Because the teacher never explained to me how not to bleed out after placental detachment... :-)

I also feel like, during labor/delivery, I was too scared to communicate with the nurses/mid-wife once I started pushing. It felt like no-return, booster ignition time, so I didn't want to screw it up. I remember with my second, I felt really incredibly nauseated right before they told me I could push, and I was scared to tell them how bad I was feeling because I thought they wouldn't let me push I if I mentioned I felt really "off". Luckily, my son came out after two pushes, but my blood pressure plummeted and they had to rush the anesthesiologist back in (I had an epidural) and try to figure out what was happening. I think, now, I won't feel bad saying "I feel like I have to sneeze", even if I'm all positioned and ready to go for the biopsy.

AliceBastable - oh, that's great if the machine can stop automatically if I do something to mess it up too much. That definitely makes me feel less-anxious.

I didn't sneeze! And it didn't hurt. I felt the prick of the needle when they did the lidocaine, but I didn't feel anything else they were doing the rest of the 5 minutes.

So they just called with a diagnosis - I have atypical ductal hyperplasia (ADH?), which isn't a cancer but seems to be a marker for risk of breast cancer in the future? At any rate, I have to make a consult with the surgical team and see if they want to do an excisional biopsy, which sounds like a general anesthesia procedure?