Good morning,
I am new to this forum and hope someone can help me.
i had a bone marrow biopsy which was very painful, that was just the numbing stage, it felt like the nurse was making a circular motion with the needle on my bone which was not anethitised. It was excruciating, hence the aspiration was also very painful. I have written to my consultant and submitted a complaint. My friend had a bone marrow biopsy 6 weeks before and the only pain she had was as described in the bone marrow leaflet. So I know what should have happened.
This has left me very anxious and unable to sleep. I keep having flash back. Has anyone else experienced anything like this and how did you manage to get past it?
Hi Brandy
I responded to the post you'd written about this in the cancer chat group a week ago and suggested that you either posted in the general cancer discussion group or that you joined the cancer group for the type of cancer your consultant is investigating.
To join and post in the general cancer discussion group just click on the link above and to join the group for the type of cancer you're being investigated for you can either look through this list or tell me and I'll provide you with a direct link.
Anne
"Never regret a day in your life, good days give you happiness, bad days give you experience"
Hi Brandy I am Mike and I help out across our various Blood Cancer Groups (see the list of all our groups that my friend latchbrook has put up)
Over my 25 years living with and being treated for 2 very rare types of T-Cell Non Hodgkin’s Lymphomas I have had many many Bone Marrow Biopsies……
Most were ‘textbook’ little or no pain….. but unfortunately, regardless as to what the info says and what other people say….. I have had a few significantly sore BMBs….. I mean very sore.
During a BMB there is definitely a circular motion as basically the person doing the BMB is basically drilling through the bone to get gain access to the spongy marrow inside the bone….. not nice but a necessary evil when you are living with a blood cancer.
