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[quote=Anonymous]Oh OP - I'm so sorry.  If its not bad enough you had to go through this too!  I had a biopsy last month (I'm the other calcifications person, they were benign).  I'll relay my experience as well for people following this thread.

I had way less mammography than you - I can't remember how many though.  Mine were in a different spot.

I was very very nervous and emotional.  They could tell and were quite caring and kind.  I started crying and shaking when I laid down on the table.  I'm usually not overly weepy - meh it was my time of the month.  The one nurse spent alot of the time wiping my eyes with a tissue.  I think the doctor thought that the lidocaine shot was hurting me so she put in a bunch extra (fine by me!).

The procedure itself was normal - I think it was easy for them to get good samples for whatever reason.

Afterwards I bled for a looonng time.  They used the glue and the steri strips.

So here's the thing - I have a connective tissue disorder, but have never had the wound healing issues that sometimes go along with it.  So this is when it decided to rear its ugly head.  I developed a HUGE hematoma.  A full TWO weeks after the procedure, the wound burst open in the middle of the night and the hematoma actually came out through the wound.  Man it was insane.  We now call it my boob explosion lol, although it was NOT funny at the time!  I was going into my PCP for a followup the next day anyway... they had to retape it, and I left that tape on for WEEKS, basically afraid to take it off!

Went to see my connective disorder doc four a routine check a few weeks ago as well, and of course brought this up.  She just said, 'yep, very common with people like you.'  OK, at least she's seen it before b/c I was feeling like a complete freakazoid.

Anyway OP - just wanted to let you know you weren't the only one who had crazy biopsies, although mine issues weren't the fault of the nurses/doctor, more the fault of my crappy collagen!
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