When I had the wire procedure this week, first they put in the IV needle which I barely felt because I had plastered
numbing cream over my veins to help with the IV pain. I also plastered so much
numbing cream over my breast that during the actual wire procedure, I barely felt any discomfort from the clamps, did not feel the needle from the numbing injection until it reached the deepest point, and then only for a second or two.