Quote from: heatherrose on October 05, 2009, 06:21:50 AM
I have a great hate for needles myself. When I was very young,
I remember being literally drug back into the examination room for a shot
and being held down while it was administered. So, I feel for you but I was able
to get over it and am able to self inject. The first time, I was a little queasy
but I got over it. What I found surprising was how tough the epidermis is.
Once I was able to get over my case of the nerves, it was a breeze.
If you need it bad enough you can do it.
I can top that one, when I was a kid, I had a similar experience, cept I was forcefully put under general anesthesia (literally held me down and injected me, a few seconds later, I remember waking up, lesson learned, DO NOT stop struggling to try and talk rationally, that's when they get you).
Took 10 years before I let someone get a needle anywhere near me again, thankfully I got over the resulting phobia before developing multiple sclerosis and having to self inject every 48 hours.
I know, my life rocks.
Though, my injections are done with an autoinjector and tiny 30 gauge needles, I don't even feel the needle go in, they need something like that for your injections. It's literally just pressing the device to your skin, pushing a button, hearing a click, most of the time I don't feel a thing, I wouldn't even know a needle has pierced my skin, then in a few seconds there's another sound, and you're done. I can't imagine injections being any better than that.
Sure was better than a fun blood test I had the other day where the technician missed the vein, then bumped the syringe when she swapped the blood vials over, still got a nice bit of redness on my arm to remember that with.
Anyway, as someone who used to be terrified of injections, and now thinks literally nothing of them, I still don't know how to help except to say I pretty much stopped thinking of it in an irrational phobic sort of way on my own over time.
