what is like for a young teen to go through a liver boispy?

Answer 1

There are several different procedures for liver biopsies. One procedure uses a needle to poke into the liver and remove small pieces. This is done with an anesthetic that kills the pain and even most feeling, but it can be extremely hard to sit through if you are not at least a little sedated. Ask to be sedated if you are getting this procedure and are afraid of needles. Its not painful if you are not sedated, but its mostly just a little too weird, and very difficult to sit still when there is a needle poked around inside you. After the anesthetic wears off, the area where the needle was poked through feels like a bruise for a few days.

The other two procedures are surgical: one is done by threading a laproscope through a small hole, and the other is conventional surgery. The laproscope causes a little soreness after teh procedure, and conventional surgery causes alot of trauma from being cut open.