Having injections

[Yeoman Randi]

As a child i was terrified TERRIFIED of injections. I don't know what changed that, but these days i have no problem with shots, blood draws, donating blood or any blood parts. I can happily sit in the donor place with both arms hooked up to needles (for HOURS) while they take all my blood out through one arm and replace it in the other arm (what they do when you donate platelets)....(although many places these days do it all in one arm).

I've gotten cortisone injections in my knees and hands. I've had some weird gel injected into my knees and even had some fluid injected into my shoulder so that i could have special scans done.

 

[Lookingglassman]

I love donating blood because I think it is cool someone somewhere is walking around with a little part of me inside of them.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Beside, it's the only opportunity for you to say so, if you get what I mean.

 

[Mallory]

I had monthly blood draws beginning in 1997, got upped to two or more per month in 2007 and then to four times a day when I was hospitalized. Last year I received all my preschool (up to age 5) vaccinations again. Now I'm more into the Needle Experience. Give me my contrast CT scans (nothing like an IV bag of iodine to add color to your complexion), anything in Nuclear Medicine (where your dose comes it's very own steel and lead box thoughtfully marked with your name and radioactive half-life) or my new personal favorite, paracentesis (which features a needle so big they mark the landing site with four or more injections of local anesthetic).

Needles, injections and draws really don't bother me that much any more.

 

[bluedana]

I much prefer to give myself my own injections. I had to give myself shots for the first 6 weeks of each pregnancy - those were some big-ass needles, and the medicine was thick and slow moving. After that, all fear was gone. Recently, I was giving myself my nightly anti-coag shot using a subcutaneous (pretty small) needle, and having a conversation with my husband. I stabbed myself in the thigh, yakking away, until he said, Can you ... not do that while we're talking? Please?

I'm a great blood draw. I love to see the samples flowing into the vial. Try to start an IV, though, and it's like going to war. My forearms are still so messed up, I look like a heroin addict.

 

[thestrangequark]

I much prefer to give myself my own injections. I had to give myself shots for the first 6 weeks of each pregnancy - those were some big-ass needles, and the medicine was thick and slow moving. After that, all fear was gone. Recently, I was giving myself my nightly anti-coag shot using a subcutaneous (pretty small) needle, and having a conversation with my husband. I stabbed myself in the thigh, yakking away, until he said, Can you ... not do that while we're talking? Please?

hahaha, I know that situation well. Actually, after 15 years of self-injections I have learned to do it so quickly and subtly that most people don't even notice.

I'm a great blood draw. I love to see the samples flowing into the vial. Try to start an IV, though, and it's like going to war. My forearms are still so messed up, I look like a heroin addict.

I hate IVs. When I was admitted to the hospital at diagnosis, it took more than 20 minutes for them to get an IV in!

 

[Tora Ziyal]

Most injections don't bother me. Though I do remember an IV needle in the back of my hand just about sending me through the ceiling once.

But, you're right, some people are terrified. I once told an inmate that we needed to get a DNA sample from him... I had to reassure him multiple times that it was indeed just a cheek swab, like an oversized Q-tip, NOT a needle. He was a nervous wreck. Big ol' former Marine.