maybe i have a lower pain tolerence, but to me it was pretty painful
and it felt like he jabbed me a million times and then they suck up
the cells which is uncomfortable but a little better thank the needle
doing in. at my dr i layed back and they extended my neck over a
pillow. it felt a slight choaking feeling, but not to badly. my dr
prescribed me activan to calm me and put lido_caine on the spot of
the procedure. my neck was tender for a few days and i did bruise and
now it looks like a hickey (i wish)
good luck

--- In ThyroidDisease2@yahoogroups.com, webpoet1@... wrote:
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>
> On April 8th, I will be undergoing an ultrasound guided?FNA (fine
needle aspiration) of some thyroid nodules that I have.
> They will only be doing a biopsy on one of the nodules: 3 of the 4
are only cysts, and they are not interested in those: but will be
biopsying the one that is "a complex mass inside a cyst": as that is
more likely to be malignant, although the chances are still low.
>
> I have a couple of questions: how painful will it be, really?
Apparently they will not be using any
> anesthesia: because sometimes using anesthesia can cause blood in
the results and interfere with reading them. Will it compare to, say,
the pain of a shot? Or worse?
>
> And since it is ultrasound guided: am I going to have a lot of
the "choky feeling" that
> I had when they did the original ultrasound? I felt really choky
both by lying on my back,
> and also from the ultrasound pressing down on my thyroid.
>
> Finally, when do they usually report on the results? Will there be
some preliminary results,
> or will it take: a couple days? Or a week? Or what? And if I don't
hear back in a couple days is this "good news", meaning that
preliminarily it didn't look malignant?
>
> I am feeling very worried about this: because my partner is a 3
year breast cancer survivor,
> my mother is a 15 year colon cancer survivor, and before my DAd
passed away at 86 of other causes, he had had the beginnings of
multiple myeloma: a bone cancer (of course, he was a lifelong hobby
> photographer at a time when this meant having?a home darkroom with
many chemicals,
> and was also, by profession, a chemist: so this may have been
environmental).? No genetic link with my partner of course: but still
it reminds me that these things can happen.
>
> In the meantime until I find out, will try to keep positive and
realize that cancer is unusual and these nodules are very common.
>
> Laurie
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