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Greg H pretty much described it, but..................
Inserting the needle and going into the bone is merely pressure and very little to no pain. In my case the aspirate part (fluid) hurt somewhat, but not untolerable. You only feel pain during the extraction of the fluid period. They stop and he and the tech check the samples and make sure they got what they wanted. Then the Doc instructed me to take repeated deep breaths "like a woman having a baby" in prep for the bone marrow core extraction. I don't care what anybody says, that hurts, and last about 15 to 20 seconds. By the end of that time I was pretty much begging for it to end. After that, it's all over and you feel nothing with removal and closing. Over all it's a necessary inconvenience that you just have to learn to live with.
BTW Greg, I didn't know you could ask for more Lidocaine and it takes time for Lidocaine to work so I wonder what possible good it could do once the procedure starts.
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Dick S, diagnosed Feb. 2008 with MDS. Last BMB April 2016. New diagnosis is CMML stage 1.
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