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Old 05-31-2009, 09:29 AM
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Originally Posted by AnnieB3 View Post
Lizzie, They can't give you anything or knock you out during a muscle biopsy because it would interfere with the results. So if any of you can't handle pain, lots of pain, a muscle biopsy is not for you! They can only numb the skin and not the muscle.

Annie
I had a muscle biopsy before being diagnosed with MG and it did not hurt badly at all. When I would feel something the doctor would inject some more numbing medicine and he even told me he had to go deep because my arm is rather fat although he didn't say it in those words.
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