Thanks for the advice. This is an old old injury from about 20 years ago. I think I'm finally getting sick of it. It's really not that bad. Mostly just a funny name for it.
Naw. Too deep to do that. You have to get a needle in it and suck the fluid out.
Okay, a needle story.
Actually two needle stories. The first was that I thought I had some sort of breast lump about an inch below (underneath) the nipple. So a surgeon tried to put a needle into the lump (from the side) to see if he could draw fluid. But he never hit it. He kept trying - sticking this needle into me, over and over (no anaesthetic of any kind). Finally he gave up.
Then, another time a mammogram showed a suspicious spot deep inside the breast and they wanted to biopsy it. To locate and pinpoint the spot before surgery, a radiologist took a needle that was easily a foot long - like a knitting needle, but thinner - and then, as he watched on an X-ray type screen, put this needle into me, slowly, no anaesthetic. I couldn't watch , so I turned my face away. He hit some firm tissue, and pressed that needle through it, hard, like you would put an oven thermometer into a roast. God. I wish I could have had a video of it, because no one would believe that needle or the procedure. I think it was the kind of needle where a wire went through it to get to site of the biopsy.
Well, the biopsy was benign, by the way. See the fun you guys all miss by being males.
Okay? The ultrasound probe goes in the easiest access to the prostate, that would be the rectum. Then the needle slides up on in there and goes through the rectum and into the prostate. They don't bother with anesthetic because they figure it would take three shots to get it in and three biopsies so ... skip it.
Wanna hear about prostate seed implants? Too many needles for the rectum so they skip that and go through the 'taint. The ultrasound probe is still up the ass though. The blood, the feces, it's just flat out wrong. Good thing the patient is knocked out.
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Originally posted by alcimedes
can't you just lance it?
Yea, And Sir Lance-a-lot was a bit of a prick.
Originally posted by Scott
Naw. Too deep to do that. You have to get a needle in it and suck the fluid out.
Okay, a needle story.
Actually two needle stories. The first was that I thought I had some sort of breast lump about an inch below (underneath) the nipple. So a surgeon tried to put a needle into the lump (from the side) to see if he could draw fluid. But he never hit it. He kept trying - sticking this needle into me, over and over (no anaesthetic of any kind). Finally he gave up.
Then, another time a mammogram showed a suspicious spot deep inside the breast and they wanted to biopsy it. To locate and pinpoint the spot before surgery, a radiologist took a needle that was easily a foot long - like a knitting needle, but thinner - and then, as he watched on an X-ray type screen, put this needle into me, slowly, no anaesthetic. I couldn't watch , so I turned my face away. He hit some firm tissue, and pressed that needle through it, hard, like you would put an oven thermometer into a roast. God. I wish I could have had a video of it, because no one would believe that needle or the procedure. I think it was the kind of needle where a wire went through it to get to site of the biopsy.
Well, the biopsy was benign, by the way. See the fun you guys all miss by being males.
Originally posted by Scott
Men can get breast cancer too.
Yes, I know. But at least their 'breasts' are smaller and easier to find things in..... Right?
Btw, you don't mean those men get mammograms, do you?
Originally posted by Scott
Oh and you don't want to know how they get biopsy for prostate cancer.
Yes, I do.
Wanna hear about prostate seed implants? Too many needles for the rectum so they skip that and go through the 'taint. The ultrasound probe is still up the ass though. The blood, the feces, it's just flat out wrong. Good thing the patient is knocked out.