Pay no attention to the negative stories. Honestly, it is NOTHING. I would tell you if there was anything to be concerned about
. There ISN'T. A mammogram can be painful but this is absolutely nothing like that. You won't feel a thing. The table looks different because it has
openings for your breast to drop down and it raises up and down like a hospital bed. The hardest part for me was getting comfortable on my belly and being still for an hour! LOL.
After you are settled, you will get one little sting of lidocaine just below the skin...only lasts a few seconds. Mine was given on the outside of my breast nearest my arm because the area of concern was deep, near my chest wall. Yours will depend on which part of your breast they need to look at. That's the last thing you will feel. After you are numb on that little patch of skin, they will put in another kind of numbing medication that numbs the entire breast for several hours and make a TINY cut in the skin - mine was less than 1/2" at most. You don't even know it's happening. You will hear the equipment moving and the doctor and nurse speaking to each other about
positioning it. They biopsied 12 places on me. They will place a little marker in the area they biopsied and it's over. I had a two steri-strips over the cut and a bandage that stayed until the next week when I went back to have them check it and get the results. That night after the numbing wore off, I took some Tylenol because my breast felt a little achy down deep.
There is absolutely nothing to be scared of. You could take some ear buds and listen to music during the hour they are working. That will help you relax and pass the time.
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