Well, it depends what you mean by "biopsy" My first actual biopsy was a fine needle aspiration (FNA) that was done in the doctors office. It hurt at the time it was done, but I didn't have any problems afterwards too much.

However, I'm thinking you are talking of the type of biopsy where they knock you out and do a thorough scoping and biopsies everywhere. I had one of those too about a month after the FNA and diagnosis. I was in the hospital for about three days, as they also put in the PEG feeding tube. Honestly, outside of a bit of sore throat from the biopsy bit, most of my pain was related to the PEG tube (which I must say was more than the "mild discomfort" they had described)

I even remember being able to eat quite well after the surgery, as my radiation and chemo treatments didn't start for a couple weeks afterward.

I know it really doesn't have much impact to say "not to worry" when most of us will worry no matter what, but speaking from my own experience, this procedure was at the start of the journey. Yes, I worried about it, but looking back there it really wasn't as bad as I imagined it would be.

Jen