This could lead to some funny stuff....

In my case, I'm talking about getting your blood drawn. Maybe I'm a wuss but that stuff just bothers me. I could never be one of those hardcore drug addicts just because of it.

To sum it up in a sentence....you'll never see me standing in line waiting to be one of those people with cookies and a different color bandage on my arm. No thanks.

The dentist sucks too with that crap. ehh random thought.

6/7/2006 11:55:05 AM

I think the proper question is "who likes getting stuck with a needle" as they are probably the minority

6/7/2006 11:56:56 AM

why does the question have to be directed to the minority? he wants reactions from people who hate it not people who like it.

[Edited on June 7, 2006 at 11:59 AM. Reason : for the record, i don't mind as long as the needle isnt in my gums/mouth]

6/7/2006 11:58:54 AM

i hate it and ive never been to the hospital or anything. i really dont even want to consider my wisdom teeth being pulled cuz of the IV.

6/7/2006 12:01:40 PM

he would be better served to find out who likes needles, as just about everyone hates needles for the reasons he described

6/7/2006 12:03:55 PM

or just say "who has too big a vagina to man up and donate blood anyway"?

6/7/2006 12:07:02 PM

I couldnt ever inject myself I doubt, but I'm not afraid of needles. My sister passes out at the sight of needles though, its quite funny.

6/7/2006 12:08:11 PM

I get physically sick if I see a needle puncture my skin. So I just look away and it's all good. Once it's already in, i can look, but if i see it puncturing, i immediately feel sick. It's fucking retarded.

6/7/2006 12:09:07 PM

shrug i dont mind quick things like shots, its the things sucking out or putting in large quantities that bothers me.

6/7/2006 12:11:01 PM

I had a horrible fear of needles back in the day, then I had to get a test done where the took blood every hour for three hours and had to inject saline back through the line after each draw and well I was cured after that.

6/7/2006 12:13:34 PM

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"i hate it and ive never been to the hospital or anything. i really dont even want to consider my wisdom teeth being pulled cuz of the IV."

holy fucking shit, did I type this?

completely agree, mayne.

6/7/2006 12:30:29 PM

Go donate plasma for a year. That'll break you of your pansiness.

6/7/2006 12:32:59 PM

I hate needles. I hate being around them and hate getting shots. I've neve given blood. Fuck that shit. Nobody's sticking a needle in me unless its to save my life.

6/7/2006 1:03:17 PM

all of you need to grow up

6/7/2006 1:06:49 PM

i had blood drawn today

my arm fucking hurts!

they tried to do it in my right arm and i was like hell no!! driving hurts

6/7/2006 1:22:08 PM

i give blood as often as i can, but i dont like watching them do it. so i wouldn't say i like it, but i don't really mind it either.

6/7/2006 1:26:22 PM

I had a bad incident with needles as a kid. They hit an artery when giving me a shot in my leg. Blood went everywhere. I've basically been scared of them ever since then, even though I had to get my blood drawn every two weeks for six months (god that sucked).

6/7/2006 1:47:42 PM

i don't mind getting shots, but IV's bother me

6/7/2006 1:50:05 PM

bunch of pussies

6/7/2006 1:51:53 PM

i hate cure weapons

6/7/2006 1:58:35 PM

I'm not scared of needles, but I'm scared of stupid anesthesiologists who don't know how to find a vein.

Actually, I'm just mad b/c I basically have ONE good vein, in my right arm. Otherwise, it's fucking impossible to find something. I had to have surgery a few years ago, and they took blood earlier that day in that vein, and then they needed to get me hooked up so I'd be knocked out for the surgery and those bitches took like an hour digging around in my hands and arms with their needles to find a vein.

Aaagh, it was so fucking painful.

6/7/2006 1:59:27 PM

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"I think the proper question is "who likes getting stuck with a needle" as they are probably the minority"

sup.

6/7/2006 2:00:37 PM

It doesn't bother me at all....

I can't donate blood anymore, but I had some blood drawn last week during part of my physical.

6/7/2006 2:02:24 PM

I think the only one in this thread that should have a problem is EverMagenta, I bet there was blood everywhere like some bad B movie

6/7/2006 2:29:05 PM

I've been stuck with needles so many times it's like a walk in the park for me. Immune problems as a child (weekly blood draws at Duke) and then other various non-life threatening things that have forced me to get like 10-20 injections per office visit for a while. Thankfully not anymore, but yeah, I got over needle-fear in like first grade. Wusses.

6/7/2006 2:33:49 PM

i don't love it, but i'm pretty used to it by now...i've had my blood drawn once or twice a year from my arm every year since i was 15...damn thyroid.

6/7/2006 3:32:38 PM

^^^ It was like a fucking spray. Ick.

6/7/2006 3:42:35 PM

if you are ever at a hospital and your reg nurse cant find a vein, just tell them you get three sticks and then please call the IV team

the IV team just puts in IVs and if there is a vein to be found they will hit it.


or just go to REX, their IV team has an ultrasound machine to find veins.

6/7/2006 4:15:29 PM

^that's kick ass, I will tell people about that from now one

6/7/2006 4:22:29 PM

i'm amazed this didn't have a link to your blog in it

6/7/2006 4:24:39 PM

I feel sick if I think about getting stuck with a needle. My husband had to drive me to get my flu shot this year because I absolutely could not bring myself to do it (it was mandatory, otherwise I wouldn't have gone). If it's not attached to a tattoo gun or sewing machine, I don't want any part of it.

6/7/2006 4:25:51 PM

Needles are fun.

I used to have trouble with it, but since I got the 'betes I can even tolerate the shitty nurses that don't know what they're doing with the needles and bruise the crap out of your arm (when drawing blood).

I could stand to not hear "okay, this is going to be a big stick" again though. IV needles just don't set well with me unless I'm dying.

6/7/2006 6:18:35 PM

I have this big fear of needles, but unfortunately I've had two surgeries in the past five years that required IVs. I hate Needles, and everytime I go back to the doctor they draw because it was determined during one of my surgeries that I might have the early stages of Lymphoma.


I hate needles!

6/7/2006 6:20:12 PM

I don't let my doctors draw my blood at my yearly checkups. The give me dirty looks and lectures, but I'm not going to do it.

I might do it if they knock me out first.

I'm a grade-A needlephobe.

6/7/2006 6:41:37 PM

You know, it's funny, my IV didn't bother me at all, but I still have a scar on the top of my hand from where they put it in me as a kid. It's like a red freckle.

^ I always have to lie down and look away when I get blood drawn, else I feel like I'm going to faint.

[Edited on June 7, 2006 at 6:52 PM. Reason : .]

6/7/2006 6:51:56 PM

i hate long needles. here's a story. i'm in elementary school. some kid is a carrier of strep throat.

I keep getting strep throat every 10 days after the medicine from the 1.5 inch needle sticking in my ass every time wears off.

this repeated at least 5 times. needles suck.

6/7/2006 7:43:41 PM

every time i've ever been stuck with a needle, i've ever passed out, vomited, or both. i can't fucking stand them. I almost couldn't sleep at night the first time I saw Requiem For A Dream with the scene where jared leto shoots heroin into his fucked up arm

6/7/2006 8:15:17 PM

I don't. Stick me, put in an IV, take out some blood; it's all good.

6/7/2006 8:24:16 PM

y'all better never join the military

you go through the immunization assembly line...we got in a line with our shirts off, and walked by a row of corpsmen...one would stick you in the arm and give you a shot, then you'd walk forward a couple of steps and another would give you another shot, and so on.

and you don't even want to know about a flight physical. they draw like 8-9 vials of blood from you. my blood px is REALLY low, (anywhere from 95/45 to about 110/60), and it takes me forever to bleed enough to fill all of those vials. one time, the bloodflow kept stopping, so they'd have to stick me in a new location after every few vials.

6/7/2006 8:38:05 PM

I'll second the military assembly line sucks. I had to do it twice in the Army.

6/7/2006 8:46:14 PM

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"i hate it and ive never been to the hospital or anything. i really dont even want to consider my wisdom teeth being pulled cuz of the IV."

uh there are no IV's for getting your wisdom teeth pulled out. but yeh needles suck

6/7/2006 9:06:48 PM

^ that depends where you go. most ppl i know had iv's though a few just had a shot.

6/7/2006 9:32:10 PM

Needles have never bothered me. All these people tell me too look away when they are going to stick me. I say no way; I'm gonig to watch you and make sure you aren't going to mess anything up.

6/7/2006 9:34:29 PM

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"uh there are no IV's for getting your wisdom teeth pulled out."

i had an IV for mine

6/7/2006 10:02:14 PM

Ha, my Mom likes to tell everyone about the time when I locked myself in the Dr.'s offices bathroom and then refused to come out (I Was 8). When I did finally emerge there were 6 nurses ready to pin my ass down.
SO I Obviously don't like needles, but I have recently been trying to get over this fear. I went to the allergist two weeks ago and they had to do 15 shots in one arm! I had to lay down after five cause I thought I was going to pass out. Now I have to go in 2 times a week to get allergy shots which actually aren't that bad.

6/7/2006 10:11:13 PM

my mom was in nursing school while I was in middle school, and so I got to watch her practice with an orange and she let me have some fun with it. But I have no problem with getting stuck, poked, or prodded.

[Edited on June 7, 2006 at 10:22 PM. Reason : 2]

6/7/2006 10:20:53 PM

Quote :

"I hate needles. I hate being around them and hate getting shots. I've neve given blood. Fuck that shit. Nobody's sticking a needle in me unless its to save my life."

I used to say the same thing. Then my mom got cancer and they gave her several units during her recovery in the hospital.

If everyone had your position then that blood wouldn't have been there. Which is why I donate mine. Besides, I'm O-Pos, so I'm the universal donor.

6/7/2006 10:34:29 PM

shots don't bother me, they used to when i was young. then i had a nurse that started to tell me some random/crazy story to relax me and then stuck me. didn't really hurt, (well some later on), but i was just like "Oh, cool. Hahah thanks for distracting me." she was an awesome nurse, the only one in that damn physician's office.

6/7/2006 10:40:52 PM

I have A-, so I'm about 6% of the population, which is fairly rare. My mom's the only other person I know who has my blood type, and if she needed it I'd be glad to give it. But goddamn it would be really hard. Even now, they always have to use one of those butterfly needles to get anything out of me, and they can never find my central vein in my right arm. It takes them four sticks before they figure out it's not working. I don't play well with needles.

Have any of you seen Saw II, where the girl has to jump into and dig through a huge pile of needles? If so, you witnessed one of my personal hells.

[Edited on June 7, 2006 at 10:50 PM. Reason : .]

6/7/2006 10:45:11 PM

^at least i know i'm not the only one...

i want to give blood at some point in the (near) future. I don't know my blood type, and just feel like giving blood is something i should do at least once. i volunteered at a blood drive the College of Textiles had last March, and it's...interesting. I don't know if i trust them taking blood, but if/when I do give blood, I'll make sure they go for my big/obvious vein.

6/7/2006 11:00:59 PM