Re:how do they do a kidney biopsy

[Guest guest]

they use a cat scan machine...you are placed on the table of the machine

on your stomach...you need to be awake to do this cause you have to help

with the breathing...as you breathe, your kidneys moves...

they give you a shot in your kidney...it stings for just a minute...to

deaden the area. Then they use a special instrument that is like a

needle but it takes pieces of your kidney out...using the cat scan

machine they position you and they tell you to breathe in and then hold

your breath...then then insert the needle and get a specimen...they

continue to do this until they get enough specimens...and you have to

assist them with the breathing...

Then you are sent to a room where they monitor your blood pressure and

you have to lie still on your back for ten hours. This was the hardest

part for me. The kidney biopsy did not hurt...i could not feel

anything...but you have to lie still for that long so that you do not

bleed...you can bleed to death from a kidney biopsy. So I layed still,

still.

For the next two weeks you have to be very careful not to lift anything

heavy and stuff...

It really was not that bad. I felt that the root canals at the dentists

I had to get, were worse.

[Guest guest]

They used a regular ultrasound with me the second time. Years ago when I

had my first they used XRays.

Mojo

Re:how do they do a kidney biopsy

> they use a cat scan machine...you are placed on the table of the machine

> on your stomach...you need to be awake to do this cause you have to help

> with the breathing...as you breathe, your kidneys moves...

>

> they give you a shot in your kidney...it stings for just a minute...to

> deaden the area. Then they use a special instrument that is like a

> needle but it takes pieces of your kidney out...using the cat scan

> machine they position you and they tell you to breathe in and then hold

> your breath...then then insert the needle and get a specimen...they

> continue to do this until they get enough specimens...and you have to

> assist them with the breathing...

>

> Then you are sent to a room where they monitor your blood pressure and

> you have to lie still on your back for ten hours. This was the hardest

> part for me. The kidney biopsy did not hurt...i could not feel

> anything...but you have to lie still for that long so that you do not

> bleed...you can bleed to death from a kidney biopsy. So I layed still,

> still.

>

> For the next two weeks you have to be very careful not to lift anything

> heavy and stuff...

>

> It really was not that bad. I felt that the root canals at the dentists

> I had to get, were worse.

>

>

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