No sh*t Sherlock! ?

Injections have never bothered me. However I recently had to have plastic surgery after my hand was severely cut in several places, damaging tendons and nerves. The dozen or so pre-op ‘pain-killing’ injections in varying places on my hand, including into the cuts, were bl** agony.

I always feel that choosing notto help stop transmission, means choosing to parasitise the rest of us who protect the vulnerable.

Sorry if I upset some people.

I would like to clarify something in case I didn't make my opinions clear enough on a post I made this morning.

I am not minimising the seriousness of the COVID epidemic and I would be first in line for a vaccine if they let me. Conspiracy theories undermine the health of the nation and need to be nipped in the bud.

Talking about the 99% survival rate doesn't remove the need for adhering to the restrictions that are in place and certainly doesn't mean that the disease isn't serious. But the odds are still on the side of the individual who gets it recovering, even if they are over 80. People with co-morbidities are at higher risk than those who have none and to have as many people taking the vaccine as possible means we reduce the risk of the disease for everyone, and can think to the future and the possibilities of getting our lives back to something more like normal.

Inishowen, good luck for tomorrow. I dread having mammograms too. The last time I found it so painful I said to the mammographer that maybe I was just a wuss to which she seemed to agree! I said you would have thought they’d have found a less painful way to check and she said they had, but it was less expensive and quicker to do it the way they do. Seems that we are stuck with it.

It's like a wasp ? sting but I look forward to it as I'm so tired without it

And people who say "there's nothing worse than ..." followed by something really trivial. Good to have a reply ready for that one!

I've had to get used to needles as a diabetic as I have to have regular blood tests, though very few this year as my 6 monthly check was cancelled due to the last lockdown. My annual is due but was booked for a date when I was going away and hasn't been re-booked yet. I just find I'm fine as long as I don't look.
As for the vaccine I'll definitely be up for taking it. Even if 99% of people survive Covid there have been over 50,000 in this country who haven't! I don't wish to be added to that number!

GD had to have her mum go into school when she had her vaccination and hold her hand.
When we saw her later that day I asked her why she had just had her ears pierced if she doesn't like needles.
The look she gave me said it all, clearly I know nothing

My mother put me off needles by calling innoculations a 'jag'. Over the years, due to health issues, I have had many injections, blood samplings etc. It has never hurt that much and I don't care at all now.
Some people have funny phobias, my SIL hates the blood pressure cuff. She says it is agony!??
I think that tension brought on by the dread of these procedures in the cause of the pain.

Inishowen good luck with tomorrow’s scan.

Good luck tomorrow inishowen it is never nice even at the best of times.

Like many Grans I have to have regular blood tests and I admit to being a wimp about needles. As long as I don’t look at it I’m fine. The phlebotomist once told me that big strong young men were usually the worst when it came to passing out!

Phoenix I thought that programme about the jungle was highlights from the last 19 series, not just last year.
I didn't watch it though so only remembering what I thought I'd read in the tv timetable.

I'd dont like having a mammogram. It hurts! However I'm going for an urgent one tomorrow.

Very naughty of me but years ago when I was a young A&E nurse I used to love drawing up the tetanus jab in front of the Sunday morning sexist would be Romeo amateur footballers and rugby players who flooded in. That stopped them in their tracks and those that didn’t go faint reverted to sheepish little boy mode

I'm just on my way to get my second dose of trial vaccine, so here's hoping the needle doesn't buckle!

Candelle

I know of someone who disliked needles to the point of refusing injections to save her sight.

She became blind in the affected eye.

I don't have a problem with injections/needles (which is helpful as I have needed contact with many!) but can just about understand how affected some people are.

That's crazy, would much rather have the needle

How about people (I know one) who say, when they have one, "I hate having bad headaches" or "I hate having diarrhea" etc. . . as if most people love having those things.

I know of someone who disliked needles to the point of refusing injections to save her sight.

She became blind in the affected eye.

I don't have a problem with injections/needles (which is helpful as I have needed contact with many!) but can just about understand how affected some people are.

I have a fear of needles, but of course I will get the vaccine, if I need blood tests done I get them. I am prone to fainting when I see or even think about the needle, have done since I was in my teens. To me, the embarrassment of me fainting gets me more worked up about the injection too. Some may think it's silly, but then maybe I would think something you do is silly too.

Also love the Siddiqui family. Witty, funny and intelligent. Is there a mum?

Janiepops
I'm now in permanent AF after two cardioversions ( couldn't face that catheter ablation) which didn't work so am on various meds which seem to control it. Nobody mentioned a pacemaker at any juncture. I am OK most of the time but not very good on hills. Good thing I don't live in the Highlands!

It amuses me to hear some people say the don't like needles, but they have tattoos!!

I have been taking part for the last year in a worldwide eye trial which has involved one eye injected monthly. It sounds horrendous but I do not feel a thing. Because it is a trial, a % are receiving the placebo but I know I am not because my eye has not deteriorated since the start. I feel very fortunate and look forward to having the treatment.

My attitude is if something has to be done, do it and get it over with quickly. The Covid vaccine does not excite me but I will be in the queue.

The only time I had painful injections were steroid injections to treat calcific tendonitis in both shoulders. Not nearly as painful as the excruciating pain of the condition.

I had a B12 shot once and once was enough Petra. Ouch!