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bone marrow biopsy - Part II
November 7, 2006
Was rescheduled to have the biospy today. It was not fun. Extremely painful.

For anyone interested in what happens read ahead, (otherwise skip to the next paragraph). For most they go in through the hip bone. I had to lie on my side in fetal position. They prepped the area (back left hip near the spine) and injected lidocaine (like novacaine) then injected a larger needle close to the bone with some sort of numbing stuff. That was painful enough for me to believe they were performing the biopsy...but it wasn't HA. There was an assistant with my doc who held my legs so I didn't move them, then they stick the needle in through all the skin and try to manually push it through the skin. Then out comes the little hammer, and they start hammering the needle into my bone. When he 'thinks' he's in, he puts this syringe type thing on the end of the needle and starts to suction out. The pain goes all the way down my leg and I felt a sucking feeling as they aspirated (take marrow from the bone). When they pull the needle out, it has a piece of bone in it alone with some marrow... That is what they use to biopsy and do cultures on.

My doc said my bones were thick -- so it was harder to hammer the needle into the bone...The procedure is easier for older people (though still painful) because their bone is more brittle and weak. The younger, the harder.

It was a bad experience...because I have Fibromyalgia and experience pain on a different level than most. To top it off, after going through the entire procedure, my doc says he didn't get enough 'stuff' because of my sensitivity, so I have to get it done AGAIN, but at a hospital with Anesthesia. (sometime this month I believe)

This is the never ending Bone Marrow Saga...LOL -- I think I am going to stop sending out these emails now...It's getting redundant --

Hope all is well with everyone...

Looking forward to this being over and enjoying the holidays to come.

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