How Are You With Needles?

[Clawdeen 12,109]

I feel faint when I get blood drawn. Kinda freaks me out

While I’ve had some painful needles over the years, the worst for me has always been ones in the mouth at the dentist

Not just because it hurts and it’s weird. Half my mouth is numb for a good half of the day. Such a pain when you wanna eat.

 

 

[Splashee 28,537]

2 hours ago, Operetta said:

I feel faint when I get blood drawn. Kinda freaks me out

 

 

It should be easier for females to draw blood since their bodies can handle blood loss better than males (by some monthly margin). Watching it being done might still be a problem though.

 

As someone who is used to needles on a daily basis (medication), hitting a nerve with the needle is random, and it hurts slightly more, compared to not hitting a nerve and it feels nothing! Pain is however JUST pain, nothing else to worry about. Slowly poking with the needle to feel if the nerve is there can help, at least when doing it myself. When a nurse does it, just take the pain.... 1, 2, 3, ouch! If it burns after, a nerve was hit.

[Tacodidra 59,765]

I've always hated them – maybe it's because I'm hypersensitive to pain. But they generally* go well anyway – I don't faint or anything like that, even if it's something I really dislike.

* There was that one time it took three attempts to get a blood test from me for some reason (probably incompetence) – thankfully that didn't happen when I was little.

[Nostalgia27 60]

My fear of needles is rather irrational. The injection doesn't even hurt that much. But the more scared I am of it, the worse the pain gets... I should probably get over this phobia someday but idk how >:

[Lucky Bolt 34,914]

They make me nervous, but I don’t have any big problems with them. 

[Cyclone 1066 3,616]

I don't necessarily enjoy them but you know what I dislike as much as a lot of people don't like needles? Eyedrops. No one and I mean no one can get eyedrops in my eyes. I even bent the eyelid spreaders at the eye doctors to get my eyes closed before the drops fell in.

[applesjck 5,601]

Needles tend to make me pretty nervous but they’re nothing I can’t handle!

[RaraLover 10,410]

Totally freaked out about them. I haven't had one in a couple of years though, so I kind of forgotten the feeling (which I'm glad).

[ShadOBabe 18,984]

I'm okay with needles, as long as I don't look and distract myself with my phone or something.

[Rainbow Cloud 16,111]

I'm ok if I have to have a needle for something but will avoid them if they are in any way avoidable.

[Early Sunsets 2,106]

I hated them as a kid, but they're not too bad now. That doesn't mean I enjoy getting shots or having my blood drawn, I'm just not scared of it anymore.

[ShadowEclipse 1,209]

I don't fear needles.

[TBD 17,228]

I have no problem with them. Now injecting them on people..that's a different story. Took some few practices to get them right for the blood drawn. These damn veins. 

[Oblivion 20,265]

I dislike needles but I can deal with them when I need to.

[Retro*Derpy 3,078]

I'm okay as long as I don't see them. I can't watch them give the shot, bothers me too much.

[Pandora 38,004]

It doesn’t really bother me - having had my blood taken lots etc 

I fear other things tho

[Tom Gallagher 33,521]

I’ve always been afraid of them. I was able to muster up the courage to get all the COVID doses but I wouldn’t do it again.

[Northern Star 1,023]

Allergic if they are for me, don't mind them if they aren't.

[dead account 2,703]

I don't mind them at all, I enjoy watching how the blood flows into the syringe.

[ExplosionMare 18,007]

I can handle shots but I just can’t look at the needles, whether I’m getting a shot or someone else is

[Props Valroa 25,959]

I hate them, they are horrible.

[Cash In 21,476]

I've needed to get blood drawn fairly regularly for the last 11 years, so needles are basically nothing for me.

 

[Astralshy 23,423]

Injections are not a problem for me, well I also don't enjoy it.

taking blood from my venes is another story. I really cannot watch this, but I have at least one of those annuary

[Shadowmoth2011 146]

I do get nervous, but I'm able to handle them pretty well. I need a countdown to when they jab me though 

[Savygriffs 5,018]

I used to hate them when I was  a kid, but now I just don't mind them.

Injections don't really bother me anymore, It's getting blood drawn that gets me sometimes.