Needles

[CrazyKell]

I hear so many people say they hate needles and I've never totally understood this. :?:

Sure they don't feel amazing but they're over so quickly that I don't really understand the irrational adult fear of them. :sorry:

Soooo.....explain yourselves all you chickens! :whistle:

[JoJoYZF]

I hear so many people say they hate needles and I've never totally understood this. :?:

Sure they don't feel amazing but they're over so quickly that I don't really understand the irrational adult fear of them. :sorry:

Soooo.....explain yourselves all you chickens! :whistle:

My main one is that I dont like them stuck into veins. I dont like shots, but theyre over quick so its not quite as bad, but I hate IVs and will not give blood.

[Corey]

I can't do IV needles, never could, probably never will. I have no problem with tattoo needles (got five tats right now, looking for more), and I can take needles anywhere else without problem, but I can't do IV needles. I seize when I have to give blood. They're excessively painful to me, and when they're in my arm, I get an awful metallic taste in my mouth. It's probably all psychosomatic, but I can't take it. I'm just now getting ok at watching the nurses put in a line at work, but I still get light headed half the time. It's the one thing that really stops me from going to school to be a PA.

[tached1000rr]

call me what you want I hate needles....

but it's a necessary part of life at times....

[t-homo]

Never really had a problem with them. I've given blood a few times and am going to start giving plasma next monday.

[Ninjakel]

i have no issues at all with needles. Tattoo or otherwise.

[the chi]

I have no rational answer. I just go into freak mode when someone comes at me with a needle. However once theyve stuck me once, or put in the iv or whatever, I could care less and actually like to look at it up close, from a purely curious standpoint. But as to why I hate them so much, :idk:, I can only think it may have been back when I was like 3 (yes I remember) and some jerk stuck me really hard when I got a shot and I never forgot it.

[OneSickPsycho]

I love needles... it's the best way...

[Tsunami]

needles scare me but i do ok with them, i just can't watch the needle going in. I can't take novacaine though, the past few times i had cavities, i had them drill without the novacaine.

[t-homo]

However, the part in Saw (don't remember which one) where the girl gets pushed into the pit of needles made me cringe, a lot.

[JARVIS518]

the only time i have problems with needles is when someone tries to do an IV or draw blood from the inside of my elbow, i have tiny veins so it usually takes 4 times to get it by then i start to dry heave , but go in on the back of my hand or or shots or anything im fine i got 4 peircings with no problems but stay away from inside of my elbows

[JoJoYZF]

However, the part in Saw (don't remember which one) where the girl gets pushed into the pit of needles made me cringe, a lot.

I believe that was in saw II and that definitely made me cringe too.

[Porkchop]

I believe that was in saw II and that definitely made me cringe too.

You would be correct.....

I have always hated needles, but I give blood or plasma at least once a month. Its my good deed thing. I think shots are the worst.

The only recent incident was the nurse squirted my blood a little bit upon needle entry. I laughed when it happened, but about 5 minutes into giving blood i started to feel really claustraphobic. And wanted to rip the needle out. They just tilted me back so the blood went back to my head and put an ice pack on my head.

[pauldun170]

I hear so many people say they hate needles and I've never totally understood this. :?:

Sure they don't feel amazing but they're over so quickly that I don't really understand the irrational adult fear of them. :sorry:

Soooo.....explain yourselves all you chickens! :whistle:


we are all walking balloons wit a few bones to gives us shape.

The needle might pop the balloon and send us whipping around the room

[njchopper87]

Needles on my arms I can take. I can do the inside elbow thing when testing blood. However, when I had to get a tooth pulled a while back the novacaine shots hurt like fuck.

[Quick281]

I don't mind needles at all. I donate blood often and for reason just never minded them.

[Smittie61984]

I've been poked and proded (Not in the good way) so many times that they dont' bother me one bit anymore. When I got my Tattoo, one of the other artists came in to talk to the guy doing mine. The other artist said "Damn, he's a good one. Not a peep" after they talked for about 10minutes.

And when I was in the ICU and I saw 3 big needles come in I wanted to get up and dance (But I couldn't cause of all the wires and tubes they had on me). But knowing Morphine and Demoral where on the way will make you happy to see a needle.

But I always took part in activities that involved a lot of pain. When my legs weren't on fire from racing BMX the rest of my body was on fire from hitting the dirt while crashing in BMX. Plus I have little (And big) scars all over my body from work and play.

[rogue]

However, the part in Saw (don't remember which one) where the girl gets pushed into the pit of needles made me cringe, a lot.

:panic: :panic:

I'm with Chi. I had a really horrible experience with getting stuck with a needle when I was either 4 or 5 & I was sore for what seemed like days after where they stuck me.

Most IV's don't bother me. The only one I remember being really painful is when one was placed in the top of my hand. :panic:

It's shots I can't stand. They sting like a bitch & I almost want to cry. :lol Not to mention it leaves that area sore for days. I think the worst is a steroid shot. :panic:

[askmrjesus]

Needles don't bother me at all.

I did have a bad experience with nails once.

JC

[fatbuckRTO]

I was giving blood one time and was staring at my arm as the chick stuck the needle in my vein. It actually started freaking her out, and she asked me to look the other way.

[CrazyKell]

I have no issues with them. I usually watch them go in....bit of morbid curiousity I guess.

Last year I had an IV (for an operation) in the back of my hand and that was a bit odd. I looked away but didn't feel anything more than a scratch. That is until I heard them say "Uhh, I can't exactly locate it....can you help me find it here" and they did it a few more times until they got what they were looking for. :idk:

[Tsunami]

I was giving blood one time and was staring at my arm as the chick stuck the needle in my vein. It actually started freaking her out, and she asked me to look the other way.

I always ask the needle sticker to keep talking to me so i'm distracted from the needle.

one time i was at my doc and she had a new assistant, the girl didnt' even know how to use the scale, there was a notch for the 50 and 100 and she didnt know which one to put it on so she put it in the middle :panic:, then the doc wanted her to draw my blood and i threw a hissy fit, no way i was going to let someone incompetent go near me with a needle.

[Quick281]

Reminds me of the time I was getting tested and somehow the lady kept missing my vein. She felt awful about having to switch arms after two failed attempts on the other. I was laughing but finally she gave up and had someone else do it because she was embarrassed.

[JARVIS518]

Reminds me of the time I was getting tested and somehow the lady kept missing my vein. She felt awful about having to switch arms after two failed attempts on the other. I was laughing but finally she gave up and had someone else do it because she was embarrassed.


happens to me all the time, i try to tell them before i even sit down that they need to use a kids needle on me but dont listen, by the 6th attempt and the second person they usually go and get the smaller needle

[Adeptus_Minor]

I have issues with metal passing through my skin.
I did ok with my tattoo... besides the fact that it was like a prolonged cigarette burn and I had zero endorphin response.

A couple of years back I had a little lab chick try to do a blood draw from the inside elbow and she had... trouble... finding the vein.
Hear me now, lesser medical technicians... YOU DO NOT DIG UNDER THE SKIN WITH THE NEEDLE.
This practice will get you nothing but a queasy, white-as-a-sheet, unpleasant patient.
The actual phlebotomist was a real champ... jabbed that slippery little vein on the first strike. :dthumb:

And unlike Gina, I have to watch.
If I don't watch, I'll flinch when I feel the pricking sensation. It's a control thing.

[lauralynne]

My issue is with things going through my skin - and it's not rational. There's no explaining something that IS 'irrational'. It's not about the pain, it doesn't usually hurt. There's something more about it. the mere idea of something going through my skin...that is what freaks me right the fuck out.

AMJ - a nail? Have I got a story for you - one of my toenails FELL OFF last night - hows that for freaky?!

[Cutty72]

Ever since the military used me as a pin cushion, i've been good with needles, though they really didn't bug me before.
Something about walking down a line w/3 guys on each side with air powered syringes with the only instruction being "don't stop, and don't flinch" makes you figure it out.

comonboys is a different story. she HATES needles. Hell, she even go queezy when we were vaccinating the cattle at my parnets! :lol:

[Ninjakel]

The only needles I hate are the novacaine shots nto the upper palate of my mouth. Oh, and those that go up in front of the teeth.

Shit fucking stings alot, and its unsettling.

[tommymac]

I always ask the needle sticker to keep talking to me so i'm distracted from the needle.

one time i was at my doc and she had a new assistant, the girl didnt' even know how to use the scale, there was a notch for the 50 and 100 and she didnt know which one to put it on so she put it in the middle :panic:, then the doc wanted her to draw my blood and i threw a hissy fit, no way i was going to let someone incompetent go near me with a needle.

Should let me do it I can hit a vein with my eyes closed :)

I will say its more fun on this side of the needle :whistle: and I have stuck needles in the most unimaginable places.

Tom

[askmrjesus]

AMJ - a nail? Have I got a story for you - one of my toenails FELL OFF last night - hows that for freaky?!

Don't sweat it. We're having a half-off special for lepers this week.

JC

[marko138]

I hate needles. I hate shots, I hate getting tattoo's (I have 4 and about 20 hours of work) and I hate IV's. Unfortunately I have to get an IV every 8 weeks. Sucks to be me.

[xx CURVE xx]

I can't do IV needles, never could, probably never will.

I fucking HATE needles...and i'm a scared little pussy of IVs...BUT it's not a choice you get brother.....first of Sept, my last tumble...as soon as the Nurses and Doc saw me carried in....BAM IV :panic: ...(something about punctured internals and dieing in an hour)..By the end of the day I had 3 IV's in me :panic:
Zoomy saw it!.... :D

[tommymac]

I fucking HATE needles...and i'm a scared little pussy of IVs...BUT it's not a choice you get brother.....first of Sept, my last tumble...as soon as the Nurses and Doc saw me carried in....BAM IV :panic: ...(something about punctured internals and dieing in an hour)..By the end of the day I had 3 IV's in me :panic:
Zoomy saw it!.... :D


You should watch them do a centyral line of a femoral cut down.

Tom

[xx CURVE xx]

You should watch them do a centyral line of a femoral cut down.

Tom

sorry i dont speak gibberish :idk:

[tommymac]

sorry i dont speak gibberish :idk:

Come on over and I can put iv's into your neck and groin ;)


Tom

[Archren]

Not a fan of pain.. but needles don't bother me. Military likes to make us walking petri dishes, and I've also donated blood numerous times in the past. It isn't pleasant, per se.. but it doesn't bother me.

Get me up on a rappel tower, though.. I start hyperventilating. :panic:

[tommymac]

Not a fan of pain.. but needles don't bother me. Military likes to make us walking petri dishes, and I've also donated blood numerous times in the past. It isn't pleasant, per se.. but it doesn't bother me.

Get me up on a rappel tower, though.. I start hyperventilating. :panic:

Heights do ya in. We are going to start drilling for extracting injured people with the tower cranes and the pit is about 10 stories deep:panic:

Tom

[Cutty72]

Not a fan of pain.. but needles don't bother me. Military likes to make us walking petri dishes, and I've also donated blood numerous times in the past. It isn't pleasant, per se.. but it doesn't bother me.

Get me up on a rappel tower, though.. I start hyperventilating. :panic:

rappelling is fun :dthumb:

[Archren]

Heights do ya in. We are going to start drilling for extracting injured people with the tower cranes and the pit is about 10 stories deep:panic:

Tom

:lala:

[xx CURVE xx]

Come on over and I can put iv's into your neck and groin ;)


Tom

YOU stay the fuck away from my neck a groin perv! :panic:

[Archren]

rappelling is fun :dthumb:

Well, I used to do *ok* on the tower... I didn't care for it, but I did ok as long as I didn't look down. What totally fucked it for me was one drill weekend years ago.. they had us doing the side without the wall. I was in the middle of getting into the L position when I slipped off the ledge.. probably fell about 5 feet before my belet (sp?) caught me. The guys at the top of the tower said my scream was blood curdling. :lol: The next time we had to do the tower (some drill weekend a year or two later), I had a panic attack as I was walking up the stairs. So yeah, I try to avoid rappel towers whenever possible. :D

[Papa_Complex]

Needles in the arm don't bother me. Dental freezing is a different thing altogether though. It feels like I'm taking a spike to the brain. Fortunately my current dentist is one I had back when I was a kid, who knows that I can tolerate nitrous. I like nitrous :D

[MissHell]

The only needles I hate are the novacaine shots nto the upper palate of my mouth...

OMG - I hate that! Makes me cringe just thinking about it. :panic:

[Ducati Diva]

I've gotten better and don't freak out anymore. Maybe the medical training:idk: When I was a teenager had to get a sot in the butt and tensed up so bad that I broke the needle off in my butt. Now that was painful!!!!

[Amorok]

I get to go have novacain today! They're filling an area in my teeth that may one day become a cavity so yippee! Fucking dental and their wanting practice.

Ducati Diva had it broke off in her butt!

[JARVIS518]

.
AMJ - a nail? Have I got a story for you - one of my toenails FELL OFF last night - hows that for freaky?!

lets see a pic of that

[Flexin]

I'll give you the "needle".

I just didn't like it as a child. I broke my leg when I was about 12 and it took my mother and about 6 doctors to hold me down to give me a couple of needles.

I couple of years ago they were sending in a nurse to give me a needle. I warned them that I have never been a fan of needles. The woman came in and started talking to me, when she found out she asked me if I was going to hit her if she gave it to me. :lol: I told her no and I didn't.

I think I might have had a bad experience as a child. I know I had one with a dentist. I was nervous and tried to get out of the chair, he picked me up and slammed me into the chair. Mom hauled me out of there, he is lucky my father wasn't there at the time. :panic:

James

[Flexin]

Needles in the arm don't bother me. Dental freezing is a different thing altogether though. It feels like I'm taking a spike to the brain. Fortunately my current dentist is one I had back when I was a kid, who knows that I can tolerate nitrous. I like nitrous :D

I had a dentist put in the needle and I was calm. I thought this isn't that bad. Then he started moving it around. :panic:

James

[nhgunnut]

I am going to start by saying something I have said before. I am a recovering Drug addict and I haven't Used in 28 years.
That said as a Kid I hated Needles How ever by the time I was 21 I accepted them enough on one particularly bad weekend I recall making a syringe out of a bic pen a light bulb and balloon holding cell (never mind how the how I got the balloon and its contents into the cell with me) Now 30 years later if I have to have an IV shot I usually have to fight the urge to take the syringe away from the person giving it because I am sure I can do a better job of finding my veins than they can. God I am weird

[Quick281]

I am going to start by saying something I have said before. I am a recovering Drug addict and I haven't Used in 28 years.
That said as a Kid I hated Needles How ever by the time I was 21 I accepted them enough on one particularly bad weekend I recall making a syringe out of a bic pen a light bulb and balloon holding cell (never mind how the how I got the balloon and its contents into the cell with me) Now 30 years later if I have to have an IV shot I usually have to fight the urge to take the syringe away from the person giving it because I am sure I can do a better job of finding my veins than they can. God I am weird

First off, congrats on the clean 28 years!

Second off, that cell situation is messed up! Glad you are clean now!

[Flexin]

I have no issues with them. I usually watch them go in....bit of morbid curiousity I guess.

Last year I had an IV (for an operation) in the back of my hand and that was a bit odd. I looked away but didn't feel anything more than a scratch. That is until I heard them say "Uhh, I can't exactly locate it....can you help me find it here" and they did it a few more times until they got what they were looking for. :idk:

Screw that. I can deal with it to the point that I don't try to fight anyone but I don't look at it. I would rather be punched in the mouth. I'm odd like that.

I had a toe nail removed a few years ago and they jammed two needles in my toe. I wasn't impressed. They thought I was joking. He seemed surprised that I wasn't. And I didn't like the feeling of them tugging at my toe taking it off. :panic:

James

[rogue]

The only reason I can tolerate a needle in my mouth is because I know I'm getting nitrious. No nitrious...all bets are off. :lol:

[rogue]

I had a toe nail removed a few years ago and they jammed two needles in my toe. I wasn't impressed. They thought I was joking. He seemed surprised that I wasn't. And I didn't like the feeling of them tugging at my toe taking it off. :panic:

James

That reminds of me of when they drilled holes in my fingers to release blood that had gotten under them when I broke my fingers. :panic:

You should have seen how many people had to hold me down to accomplish that feat. I was 15 at the time. :lol:

[Flexin]

That reminds of me of when they drilled holes in my fingers to release blood that had gotten under them when I broke my fingers. :panic:

You should have seen how many people had to hold me down to accomplish that feat. I was 15 at the time. :lol:



:panic: I'm sick just thinking about it. :lol:

James

[Flexin]

BTW my sister was hit in the mouth with a bat when she was younger. She had the dental work done with out any freezing. :panic: Fuck that shit. I get them to stop freezing just before I feel it in my toes. :lol:

James

[rogue]

:panic: I'm sick just thinking about it. :lol:

James

The sad part is, it only took a second with the drill on each finger. Two seconds of work took several men several minutes to get me still enough to do it. :lol:

My grandmother had just had a heart attack and I broke my fingers trying to break into her house to get to her. I already had a huge adreneline rush going on with the extra human strength as well. They would have done better if they'd just given me some narcotics or something else to calm me down first. Instead they decided to torture me first. Then they gave me narcs. :lol:

[Flexin]

The sad part is, it only took a second with the drill on each finger. Two seconds of work took several men several minutes to get me still enough to do it. :lol:

My grandmother had just had a heart attack and I broke my fingers trying to break into her house to get to her. I already had a huge adreneline rush going on with the extra human strength as well. They would have done better if they'd just given me some narcotics or something else to calm me down first. Instead they decided to torture me first. Then they gave me narcs. :lol:

Sounds kinky. :whistle:

How was your grandmother after all that?

James

[rogue]

Sounds kinky. :whistle:

How was your grandmother after all that?

James


She was actually dead before I got to her. The paramedics still had to work her and so did the hospital until they had a doc to call it. Back then emergency response couldn't call a death so she was worked until a doc was able to call it.

She lived a long life. She was in her 80's when she pased. I like to think she didn't feel much since it was so sudden. She looked peaceful when I got to her...no signs of pain on her face.

[MILK]

My husband hates needles but has tattoos. Go figure..

[Flexin]

She was actually dead before I got to her. The paramedics still had to work her and so did the hospital until they had a doc to call it. Back then emergency response couldn't call a death so she was worked until a doc was able to call it.

She lived a long life. She was in her 80's when she pased. I like to think she didn't feel much since it was so sudden. She looked peaceful when I got to her...no signs of pain on her face.

Thats tough to see at a young age. I was at my grandparents house when my grandfather got sick in the bathroom and had to take him to the hospital. I remember sitting on the deep freezer while they hauled him out. He died later (maybe a few months) of cancer. I remember visiting him at the hospital.

James

[rogue]

Thats tough to see at a young age. I was at my grandparents house when my grandfather got sick in the bathroom and had to take him to the hospital. I remember sitting on the deep freezer while they hauled him out. He died later (maybe a few months) of cancer. I remember visiting him at the hospital.

James

It can be alot for a child to grasp. I went through alot of family deaths when I was younger and it kind of messed me up in the head for a while.

[Angee]

I feel ya...granted, my nanny was in the hospital when she died, but I was there when she took her last breath. It's almost surreal watching someone close to you (I lived with her most of my life) slip away from you...you know what I mean by that.


As far as needles, I've had them in more places than I care to mention...I am O- RH- and had to have rhogam shots with both my kids. IVs, epidurals, spinal taps (5 in one sitting cuz the asshole couldn't hit the right spot...we threw him out of the room and called the hospital admin to come do it. I was partially paralized for a week!), dental shots, perinial shots, blood drawn from the artery...

The dental shots I could handle, IV was a bitch, but I could handle it...epidural wasn't even all that bad. The ones that hurt were the spinal taps, perinial shots and artery draw. I'll take a tattoo any day over those. :lol:

[Particle Man]

fuck needles. I had my tonsils out when I was in grade school and the nurse took about 10 minutes to put the IV in - it took almost 2 months for the bruise to go away. Since then I haven't been able to stand 'em.