Is the medical disposable lumbar puncture needle procedure painful?

Nowadays, most lumbar punctures are done with local anesthesia, except for small newborns. The pain of the lumbar puncture is mainly during the skin entry, so after the anesthesia there is basically no pain.

The lumbar puncture will only take a few minutes, but before doing it, you need to position yourself, and because it's done on the patient's back, you can't see the doctor's operation, so you'll be a little scared. After the procedure is done, there will be no pain, but there will be a little pain at the eye of the needle.

After the procedure, the patient will be fine after lying down for 4-6 hours and can move freely.

Don't worry, lumbar puncture is a very common operation, it's fine.