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Do we have a New Year's Resolutions thread yet?
nekowafer:
Well piercing needles are completely different as well. I have 9 piercings right now, plus one that had to be retired. I got all these from age 16 on up. I was plenty scared - anxiety does that to you - but I still could handle a piercing needle better than getting blood drawn. I didn't allow any needles near my veins until I was forced to give blood when I got really sick and went to the hospital.
Barmymoo:
Bluesummers, if the needle they use to take blood from your arm comes out the other side then they are doing it badly wrong...
BeoPuppy:
I have been stabbed through the hand in a medical procedure once ... okay, granted, the needle didn't come out at the other end, but not by much.
Barmymoo:
What was the medical procedure? Are you sure it wasn't actually some kind of torture?
lepetitfromage:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 16 Jan 2013, 06:07 ---I get excited about donating blood - it feels like an important and useful thing to do, and I have felt so guilty for the last two years about not being able to that finally having managed to give a full donation was a great feeling! If you think about it as "having life juice taken out of you" then of course you're going to feel panicked. I see it more as donating the excess of something I have in abundance to provide for people who don't have enough (just like any form of charity).
--- End quote ---
I think it's less about "life juice" and more about the idea of anything medical in general. Needles, doctors, the crinkly paper you sit on after you've seen the nurse and are waiting for the doctor.....it all makes me start to sweat. Occasionally I'll get hives but not always. It's a hurdle that I'd really like to get over but I'm thankful that it's not as bad as it used to be. I'm always convinced that something will go terribly wrong because I overthink every lump, bump and mark. Then I convince myself that it's nothing and that I'm being ridiculous and then I don't say anything to the doctor so I don't look completely insane.
Re: Piercings- I can't handle that needle any better but it's less of a mental thing and more of a "holy shit this is going to hurt".
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