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10:29pm October 2, 2014
Is this normal for the appearance of a muscle biopsy scar the day after the biopsy?  I am not allowed to take the bandage off and look underneath yet, but there’s bright red marks and bruising around the edges of the white bandage.  The yellow tinge is just the stuff they used to sterilize the area, and nothing to worry about. I’m getting it looked at tomorrow, I just wanted to know if I should be concerned.  This is a muscle biopsy in my leg used to detect whether I have mitochondrial disease, and possibly some other tests as well.  They said they basically sliced my skin open all the way down to the muscle, peeled it back, biopsied several sites on the muscle, and sent those off to various labs for various tests.  (This is differential diagnosis for myasthenia gravis, potentially.  Or additional diagnosis, if I turn out to have both, which would be about my luck medically.)

Is this normal for the appearance of a muscle biopsy scar the day after the biopsy?  I am not allowed to take the bandage off and look underneath yet, but there’s bright red marks and bruising around the edges of the white bandage.  The yellow tinge is just the stuff they used to sterilize the area, and nothing to worry about.

I’m getting it looked at tomorrow, I just wanted to know if I should be concerned.  This is a muscle biopsy in my leg used to detect whether I have mitochondrial disease, and possibly some other tests as well.  They said they basically sliced my skin open all the way down to the muscle, peeled it back, biopsied several sites on the muscle, and sent those off to various labs for various tests.  (This is differential diagnosis for myasthenia gravis, potentially.  Or additional diagnosis, if I turn out to have both, which would be about my luck medically.)

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  1. clatterbane reblogged this from feliscorvus and added:
    Yes. I think that’s probably fine. The same here with incisions after knee surgeries, even the small ones for an...
  2. feliscorvus reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    FWIW, the bruising and stuff is totally normal when muscle is cut into. My hand totally did that after my woodworking...
  3. katisconfused said: I didn’t get a biopsy, I got a cpet, but that looks like the same bruising I got when they took the caths out? The iodine + those sticky clear bandages cause bruising when you change them
  4. soilrockslove said: Never had a muscle biopsy, but that amount of bruising looks pretty reasonable for what you described.
  5. withasmoothroundstone posted this