anyone else afraid of needles?

6', 200lbs, almost half of my body inked, several piercings and I black out like a little girl when I see a needle.
All the ink on my right arm I did myself but a tattoo needle is WAY different than getting a shot.:oops:

I absolutely HATE it when nurses bring my tattoos and piercings up when I turn away during a shot. "Why are you turning away? You have a bunch of tattoos and 100 piercings..." IT'S NOT THE SAME DANG IT! One thing though, I had to get a peice of metal that was stuck underneath my nail... The doctor gave me 2 shots on my finger and 2 more right underneath my nail. I turned away for the shots but while he was cutting away at the nail and peeling it back I just had to watch. :D

I don't "hate" them or am "freaked" out by them but I can't help feeling a bit nervous right before a needle is going to be stuck INTO my skin. Some medications that are injected really hurt. I'm more afraid of pain than anything else. Yes I have a bunch of tattoos and I can honestly say I HATE getting them but love their beauty, I just have to go through the pain to have them.

Sorry, small rant. :)

shots dont bother me at all. I give blood, have had surgeries where they had to insert ivs and what not and i sit and watch them do it. I have a very high pain thresh hold which deff helps. The only one that hurt was the one they put in my hand during my last surgery. Left a huge black an blue for about 2 weeks.

Tattoos and needles are two completely different worlds. Tattoo needles are tiny and most of the time, you don't even see them. All you here is a buzzing and the needle only goes but so deep. Medical needles are meant to go INTO you and they are quite visible.

That said, I have absolutely ZERO fear of both tattoo needles and medical needles. I used to be terrified of needles as a small child. They'd have to hold me down to get a shot in me. Then one day I told myself I'd watch them give me a vaccination. I forced myself to watch and after that day I've never been afraid again. Actually, one time I had to go to the ER because my dog had bitten me, enough to put a hole in my hand and a hole in my arm. My mother, the nurse, couldn't watch the doctor inject both puncture wounds with the numbing stuff (can't remember what its called) but I was fascinated. I watched him inject the larger wound and then stitch it up. Then he moved up to the hole in my hand. They injected it multiple times but it would not numb up, so I got to watch him stitch the hole in my hand with no pain meds. I thought it was cool. My mother was about to pass out and she's a nurse!

Dude I have a whole mess of tattoos but at the doctors I hate tattoos and giving blood is definitely out of the question.

Funny thing is ****I could save any one of you****:cool: Blood type O:gj:
Problem for you is, I dont know how you are going to get my blood:rolleye2::rolleye2::rolleye2:

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Originally Posted by Kara

Not scared of them, just hate 'em. Had emergency surgery at the beginning of this month & woke up with 3 IV's in me + getting blood drawn every 2 hours after that, which required YET ANOTHER freakin' needle. WITH THE OTHER THREE STILL IN. :angered:

Tattoos don't bother me so much...anything attached to a syringe, IV, or anything along those lines - EL SUCKO.

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O.O the same thing happend to me in November, for emergency surgery...


Cept when I was in teh ER, as one DR was gettin my medical history, the other was drawing blood (it actually helped some...) then, I hear "Uh-oh..." from the EMT guy drawing my blood. Apparently I give blood well :O

All I know is I had blood all down my forearm, and they had to give me quite a few shots of saline to get the bleeding down....(don't make much sense to me)

BUT! the pain of teh needle (they stuck the largest size they had in me! :O) made the pain from my very swollen appendix go down :P

Then I woke up from the actual surgery, had an IV in my hand, 'cos they were gonna use the one in my elbow for drawing blood... Ok fine, I can at least move my arm a bit now. Next day, a nurse came in told me she needed blood, fine I don't need another needle. WRONG :rage: she stuck me THREE times trying to find the vain in my other arm, when CLEARLY I had the open vain in my other arm :rage::rage::rage:

Above mentioned events, have deepend my hatred for needles... But only medical, as I do plan on getting a few tattoos...
Get this too... My bf's mother, draws blood for a living...

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Originally Posted by Loki1108

O.O the same thing happend to me in November, for emergency surgery...


Cept when I was in teh ER, as one DR was gettin my medical history, the other was drawing blood (it actually helped some...) then, I hear "Uh-oh..." from the EMT guy drawing my blood. Apparently I give blood well :O

All I know is I had blood all down my forearm, and they had to give me quite a few shots of saline to get the bleeding down....(don't make much sense to me)

BUT! the pain of teh needle (they stuck the largest size they had in me! :O) made the pain from my very swollen appendix go down :P

Then I woke up from the actual surgery, had an IV in my hand, 'cos they were gonna use the one in my elbow for drawing blood... Ok fine, I can at least move my arm a bit now. Next day, a nurse came in told me she needed blood, fine I don't need another needle. WRONG :rage: she stuck me THREE times trying to find the vain in my other arm, when CLEARLY I had the open vain in my other arm :rage::rage::rage:

Above mentioned events, have deepend my hatred for needles... But only medical, as I do plan on getting a few tattoos...
Get this too... My bf's mother, draws blood for a living...

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Sorry to hear that the phlebotomist drawing your blood were incompetent. It is people like them that gives us good phlebotomists' a bad name!

On another note, I felt absolutly terrible when I had to hold my 5lb Maltese to get her blood drawn at the vet :( I shouldn't have said that I think she'd be more comfortable with me...

She didn't flinch, nuttin... :O And that needle looked big for her... The vet nurse said she'd draw blood from my dog any day since she's so good about it...

But she kept giving my mom a nasty look after that... My mom actually told her "What are you lookin at me like that for? I wasn't holding you when they stuck ya!"

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Originally Posted by Swingline0.0.1

Sorry to hear that the phlebotomist drawing your blood were incompetent. It is people like them that gives us good phlebotomists' a bad name!

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I don't think he was incompetent. He was actually one of the best people that's drawn my blood. That's the only time I've had an IV in that arm, and when I get my shots in that arm, they bleed alot too, (left arm BTW).

Most of the time if I get blood drawn, it's from my right arm, with a teeny tiny vein... My left arm however, has a big vein running through it. It's mostly the nurse who said I HAD to have blood drawn from the other arm, and missed twice that makes me hate needles more...

That and my dad thinks its hilarious to use safety pins and try and poke my feet...