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Terrified!!! [Booster Jabs]
right ok, next year in school we have to get our booster jabs, and i am ******** it big time!!!! there is nothing worse, to me, than getting a needle, i would do a bungee jump quicker! I havent got a needle since i was like 5 or 6, that means i have missed my BCG, Meningitis, and polio. im realy scared stiff of needles, i even had to get sleeping gas instead of a needle to get 2 teeth out!!! i swear, if there was any other way then i'd do it, just not a needle, there is no way on earth i am getting a needle!!
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i just look away and shut my eyes, i had something done to my shoulder last year. I didnt like jabs but now i dont mind them. Having a local put into your shoulder and a scarple poking around is much worse. Just go for the jabs and afterwards treat yourself to something youve been wanting for ages, you'll soon forget about them and least you'll be protected.
This is a problem you really need to try and overcome. Is it due to a bad experience, or is it just an instinctive fear??
I'm afraid i'm not the best person to advise you on how, because I find it hard to comprehend why people have such an irrational fear of something like this, especially when you consider the possible alternative..
Meningitis.
That scares me.
What if you could go in to the room, listening to your personal stereo?? Do you think that would help? If you can just close your eyes and zone out with the music, you probably wont even realise when the jab has been done.
I'm afraid i'm not the best person to advise you on how, because I find it hard to comprehend why people have such an irrational fear of something like this, especially when you consider the possible alternative..
Meningitis.
That scares me.
What if you could go in to the room, listening to your personal stereo?? Do you think that would help? If you can just close your eyes and zone out with the music, you probably wont even realise when the jab has been done.
You need to get over this fear, I know it's difficult but a small scratch compared to a full on disease has to be better.
What about trying a hypnotist? The can maybe relax you so that you aren't as afraid of needles. I know how you feel about panic attacks, I've suffered from them and they're horrible, but once again a hypnotist could help.
I hope you can overcome this fear soon hunny,
Getting injections are important. If you go to your own doctor, you can explain how scared you are and they might be able to reassure you. I'm not sure if they can but, isn't there a gel that can numb the area while the injection goes in or is this just for taking blood? Anyone?
What about trying a hypnotist? The can maybe relax you so that you aren't as afraid of needles. I know how you feel about panic attacks, I've suffered from them and they're horrible, but once again a hypnotist could help.
I hope you can overcome this fear soon hunny,
Getting injections are important. If you go to your own doctor, you can explain how scared you are and they might be able to reassure you. I'm not sure if they can but, isn't there a gel that can numb the area while the injection goes in or is this just for taking blood? Anyone?DeLboY
This is a problem you really need to try and overcome. Is it due to a bad experience, or is it just an instinctive fear??
I'm afraid i'm not the best person to advise you on how, because I find it hard to comprehend why people have such an irrational fear of something like this, especially when you consider the possible alternative..
Meningitis.
That scares me.
What if you could go in to the room, listening to your personal stereo?? Do you think that would help? If you can just close your eyes and zone out with the music, you probably wont even realise when the jab has been done.
I'm afraid i'm not the best person to advise you on how, because I find it hard to comprehend why people have such an irrational fear of something like this, especially when you consider the possible alternative..
Meningitis.
That scares me.
What if you could go in to the room, listening to your personal stereo?? Do you think that would help? If you can just close your eyes and zone out with the music, you probably wont even realise when the jab has been done.
yea i no, it scares me too, i would much rather get the vac, but not by using a needle!
* gemchicken
You need to get over this fear, I know it's difficult but a small scratch compared to a full on disease has to be better.
What about trying a hypnotist? The can maybe relax you so that you aren't as afraid of needles. I know how you feel about panic attacks, I've suffered from them and they're horrible, but once again a hypnotist could help.
I hope you can overcome this fear soon hunny, Getting injections are important. If you go to your own doctor, you can explain how scared you are and they might be able to reassure you. I'm not sure if they can but, isn't there a gel that can numb the area while the injection goes in or is this just for taking blood? Anyone?
What about trying a hypnotist? The can maybe relax you so that you aren't as afraid of needles. I know how you feel about panic attacks, I've suffered from them and they're horrible, but once again a hypnotist could help.
I hope you can overcome this fear soon hunny,
Getting injections are important. If you go to your own doctor, you can explain how scared you are and they might be able to reassure you. I'm not sure if they can but, isn't there a gel that can numb the area while the injection goes in or is this just for taking blood? Anyone?thnks bbz, lol that gel doesnt work, they give it to our whole class 2 yrs ago and none of them said it worked!
Don't panic. 
Honestly, its perfectly fine. Doesn't hurt one little bit!
Just remember that before you get it and look away from your arm and the nurse when you're getting it done and think of something else.
Honestly, its perfectly fine. Doesn't hurt one little bit! Just remember that before you get it and look away from your arm and the nurse when you're getting it done and think of something else.mikeski
thnks bbz, lol that gel doesnt work, they give it to our whole class 2 yrs ago and none of them said it worked!
Thats not to numb it thats to clean it.
mikeski
right ok, next year in school we have to get our booster jabs, and i am ******** it big time!!!! there is nothing worse, to me, than getting a needle, i would do a bungee jump quicker! I havent got a needle since i was like 5 or 6, that means i have missed my BCG, Meningitis, and polio. im realy scared stiff of needles, i even had to get sleeping gas instead of a needle to get 2 teeth out!!! i swear, if there was any other way then i'd do it, just not a needle, there is no way on earth i am getting a needle!!
sweetie it would be ok.......I got my BCG and my booster late because I was sick and I started the waterworks during mine as well.... but hunny its nothing to worry about I promise! xoxo
need_money
Thats not to numb it thats to clean it.
actually i think the stuff used by most places does have some lidocaine in (local anaesthetic). The trick is to really rub it in to get a decent effect (or so one lovely nurse taught me
)And gemchicken think of it like this
you don't know what its like to have polio, or TB etc but they are hideous. You DO know what its like to have cold.
Now there isn't an injection to stop the common cold. But if there was an injection - all of 10 seconds pain maximum which meant you wouldn't have to endure 2 weeeks of sniffling, headaches, coughing....
wouldnt you take it..?
I'm of the age to remember a class mate from Junior School who'd had polio. Remember the way he tried to play football with a caliper on his leg. Probably why I made sure all my kids were vaccinated against everything. My mate at Uni this year didn't have his mumps injection before he started-he then got mumps and really wshes he'd had the innoculation. I know it's awful - I hate injections as well. Relax your arm and look away - should help. But have the injections - the altetrnative is just not worth contemplating.
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