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Originally Posted by thortime
So did you all just have sedation and no local anesthesia? I can understand sedation being used for calming down purposes, but not sure why anesthesia would be needed. I thought it's just a needle that would inject dye (similar to a needle if you were getting your blood drawn). Is that correct or am I missing something?
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I'm not sure they used either for the venogram. I had venoplasty right after. For that they have to cut your vein a bit. They doped me up a bit with fentanyl or whatever it is that killed a bunch of people when it was cut with heroin.