# Tell me about your needle biopsy (preferably tell me it wasn't that bad)

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 22, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-needle-biopsy-preferably-tell-me-it-wasnt-that-bad/533294 "2010-03-22T01:47:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![katie1341](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/91b2a8/32.png) [@katie1341](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katie1341)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-needle-biopsy-preferably-tell-me-it-wasnt-that-bad/533294/21 "2010-03-23T17:15:47Z")

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> [@Taomist](#):
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> I’ve had needles and \<very small\> vacuums stuck into my eyeballs and eyelids \<chelazion issues\>. No drugs, though the needles were for the numbing agents.
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> The first time wasn’t THAT bad, I thought; I realized afterwards that, as I hadn’t been expecting it, I was all ‘ok’ about it until I left. At that point, I realized that I’d basically gone into shock and was REALLY glad I wasn’t driving myself home.
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> The second time was a lot worse, and I am sure it is in part because I knew what to expect.  
> Both times, the worst part about it was having to hold my head steady and not move my eyeballs. At all. Yes, they had eyelid-holder-openers in there, but still…'Don’t move your head at all or your eyeballs or…just don’t move, ok?"
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> WTF

AAAHHHH! I think my eyeballs would have run screaming from the room. If you can withstand that, I can withstand a needle in my throat.

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