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Ditto. Last year I hit the 20 gallon club. I don't like needles, but it doesn't stop me from donating. P229 | |||
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| hello darkness my old friend  |
no issues for me thank God. I am diabetic and have done over 75000 shots in my lifetime. | |||
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Void Where Prohibited |
My only reaction is to get annoyed when they don't do it correctly. I know how to do it correctly, and did it very well for about 7 years in my younger days. "If Gun Control worked, Chicago would look like Mayberry, not Thunderdome" - Cam Edwards | |||
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94hokie and needles don't mix. Last blood draw, at the end, "Hey, are you feeling ok? Tell you what, why don't you just stay there in that chair for a while." Spinal injections? Seriously, I take 2 low dose valiums before that, and don't even discuss what you're doing to my spine. Yeah, after allergy shots weekly in each arm for a few years, followed by blood draw every few months, nope. No needles allowed. | |||
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Go Vols! |
No reaction. I get stuck a lot and don't enjoy it, but it usually means I get Cracker Barrel afterward, so I'm a good boy. | |||
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Sigforum K9 handler |
I used to be. Now, I can start my own IV. The thing I really don't like is other peoples blood. | |||
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When I was little, I never liked getting stuck - shots or the little finger pricks to draw blood. Never had a reaction to them, just didn't like it. Fast forward to college - I had a lower lumbar injury playing football. Went in for a bone scan - basically take a syringe full of radioactive liquid and jam it into you arm. Watched as she pulled the plunger back and forth to mix the blood and liqid. Felt fine, went to get up, and the next thing I remember is coming to in the floor. Apparently I stood up out of the chair and went face first into the floor splitting open my face just above my eyebrow. Ever since then, every time I give blood, I get sweaty and queasy and have to give laying down. You are not alone.... __________________________ But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. | |||
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| A day late, and a dollar short  |
Doesn't bother me at all. ____________________________ NRA Life Member, Annual Member GOA, MGO Annual Member | |||
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| I Am The Walrus |
Had a 2LT at Polk who was deathly afraid of needles. For a blood draw, this idiot takes out his knife, holds it up to the poor girl and says, "I'm afraid of needles, this should give you motivation to get it right the first time..." That one trickled down from the COL to LTC to CPT and then to him.  _____________ | |||
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I'd tend to disagree - to a point. Self inflicted injury from training, "non contact" matches that always devolve, things like that over time make you prioritize what injury is. One day at the Dr.'s during my training the Dr. had a shot for me and I thought bring it on, it's nothing compared to the training. I suppose that was the moment when my mind was able to transition. You're right, it's mostly a thing of the mind. | |||
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| You're going to feel a little pressure... |
I stick people all the time. I have no problems in the operating room, watching procedures in the ER, autopsies at the coroner's office. Heck, I once watched a neurosurgery resident use a hand drill to drill a burr hole in a guy's head in the middle of a hallway. And I also don't appreciate being on the receiving end of a needle stick. Weird. Bruce "The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams “It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken | |||
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I kid with my ophthalmologist, "It's not better than a sharp stick in the eye, it is a sharp stick in the eye!" (I am under a course of treatment for a retinal problem that requires an intraocular injection approximately monthly. I am on about my seventh injection. It is not the needle that bothers me as much as the "gadget" that prevents blinking during the injection. That damn thing hurts!) | |||
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| Conservative Behind Enemy Lines  |
I knew a kid that was just like the OP when it came to injections. Just the sight of a needle had a profound affect on his blood pressure, etc. Then, he was diagnosed with Diabetes at age 11! Of all the enemies the American citizen faces, the Democrat Party is the very worst. | |||
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| A teetotaling beer aficionado  |
I recall in Navy Boot Camp they lined us up for blood draw. It was 3 or so lines of guys. When your turn came up you stood there and put your arm over a wooden bench about chest high and the guy on the other side would stick a needle in and draw blood. A good portion of recruits passed out. Fortunately I didn't. I'd learn beforehand to not watch the needle going in and the blood coming out. Most phlebotomists today are able to enter a vein and draw blood with out any pain or discomfort. The key for those sensitive to this procedure is don't watch. For me, I've been stuck so many times it's a non issue. I laugh and tell jokes with the tech doing blood draws and watching the whole thing is not a big deal. Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. -D.H. Lawrence | |||
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| In search of baseball, strippers, and guns |
My wife is a pediatrician I’ve seen her do spinal taps, put in a central line, out an IV in a baby that was barely a day old Hates having to get shots herself I don’t remember if I used to not like them or not. From the time I was in 7th grade until I graduated high school i got allergy injections, one in each arm, twice a week I’ve been hurt badly as well where I had to have a lot of tubes running in and out of me in various places. And I’ve aversged more than one surgery a year since my 21st birthday (I’m 44 now) So I don’t remember if I used to not like it or just got over it I have helped a lab tech put an IV into my arm when she couldn’t get the butterfly needle to puncture the vein. —————————————————— If the meek will inherit the earth, what will happen to us tigers? | |||
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Security Sage |
I don’t. Like so many who have been treated for cancer, I had a port in my chest for a few years. The needle pushed through your skin into that port is is pretty big. A good (or bad) phlebotomist can make all the difference. I’ve experienced someone “stirring” a needle in my arm. That hurt. A couple of the lab nurses at my oncologist were so good, you couldn’t feel the needle. RB Cancer fighter (Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma) since 2009, now fighting Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma. | |||
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Green Mountain Boy |
Reading this thread made me a little queasy... I turn pale at the possibility of needles, even being in the hospital as a visitor makes me feel sick after a few minutes. I had a neurologist testing nerve function in my hands due to carpal tunnel issues and was using these tiny acupuncture type needles to send zings through my wrist and that was enough to make me pass out. !~God Bless the U.S. Military~! If the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off Light travels faster than sound, this is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak | |||
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| Rail-less and Tail-less |
Yeah no. In school we used to practice putting IV’s in each other. _______________________________________________ Use thumb-size bullets to create fist-size holes. | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
Holy Shit, man! You’re THAT afraid of needles that you let a dentist do work in your mouth without any numbing? That’s some hardcore stuff there! No dentist is putting any tool in my mouth before I’m number than hell.  | |||
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| Save today, so you can buy tomorrow |
For blood draw, I am OK with that. I can even look while they insert the needle to my vein. Now IM injections, I don't like. It doesn't matter deltoid or gluteal area. I just don't like needle going into my muscle areas. It stings. _______________________ P228 - West German | |||
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